Temporary Sanity: A Crime Novel

by Rose Connors

Book Overview

A brilliant new legal thriller, set on colorful Cape Cod, from the author whose debut novel, Absolute Certainty, won raves for its fresh voice and its passion for the law. When can a citizen become a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074322907X
• ISBN13: 9780743229074
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Classic Plot - New Twist

"Temporary Sanity" is a robust, power-packed, legal thriller. Rose Connors introduces readers to: Martha (Marty) Nickerson, trying her first case as a defense attorney, J. Stanley Edgerton, an in-your-face, by-the-book assistant DA and Buck Hammond, who had the misfortune to murder the killer of his seven-year-old son in front of the sheriff and a slew of TV cameramen. To keep the action alive the author adds a feisty Judge and a series of murders. Marty's task is to convince the jury to find Buck Hammond `not guilty.' Connors' court room drama is lively, her characters vibrant and her dialogue authentic. "Temporary Sanity" is the classic legal thriller with interesting new twists and the perfect page-turner book to read when you are alone and won't be interrupted.Beverly J Scott, author of Righteous Revenge and Ruth Feverhttp://www.beverlyjscott.com

Rose Connors cannot write another book fast enough for me!!

This was a great book!! Just like Absoute Certainty, this is a book you can't put down!!The characters are so real. The tension is felt in every page.I love the heroine- she is so down to earth and smart.Deals with real emotion, real issues, real courtroom drama.LOVED IT!! Rose, please write again SOON!

Brilliant pacing, great characters

I won't reiterate the story as it is well documented on this page.I read a lot of mysteries, and a few of them are so good that I buy a hardcover and give them a precious space in my bookcases. This is one of those keeper books. The author brings all the characters to life, tells a great, if gut-wrenching, story; winds it up with a terrific ending that keeps you wondering until the last words; AND she knows about guns. It is so aggravating that guns are used so often in mysteries by authors who are too dang lazy to do any research on them. Then their gun clankers in the book yank me right out of the story.The big issue in the book is jury nullification, another one of my hot buttons (but that's just icing on the cake, it is a great book.) I really could not tell how the ending would come out until it did. Most authors I have seen treat issues like jury nullification as either for or against, all the way through, so you know what the ending will be depending on which soapbox the author climbs up on.It is a hard read in places because of the horrific crimes that take place, but not stomach-turning.Read it!

A Five-Star Follow-Up to Her Debut Legal Thriller

Rose Connor's second crime novel, "Temporary Sanity," picks up where "Absolute Certainty" left up. Former ADA Marty Nickerson is now a criminal defense lawyer caught up in defending two accused murderers. The story grabs you from the first page and doesn't let go until the last. Nickerson is a strong, intelligent, and often wryly humorous protagonist who cares deeply about the law and justice. The main storyline, her defense of a father who has killed the murderer of his young son, is compelling and heart-wrenching. The characters are likable and believable, the courtroom scenes are well-drawn, and the threads of the storyline are neatly brought together in a slam-bang climax. Connor's books are a great addition to the legal thriller genre. If you like Perri O'Shaughnessy and Lisa Scottoline, you'll love Rose Connors.

Exciting who-done it

Hector Montero, a convicted pediophile, kidnapped seven-year-old Billy Hammond, tied his arms and legs together with wire, stuffed a rag into his mouth then proceeded to rape and kill the child. The lad's father Buck identified the body at the morgue. Buck proceeded to the area where Hector was being transported to the Barnstable County jail on Cape Cod and killed him with his deer rifle. The authorities charged Buck with murder in the first degree.The shooting and the subsequent arrest was caught on tape and shown on television, a situation that worries defense attorneys Harry Madigan and Marty Nickerson. Marty is particularly concerned since this is her first case as a defense attorney after working as an assistant trial attorney for over ten years. When the presiding judge is knifed in chambers and Harry's archenemy takes up residence on the bench, matters look even more dismal for the defense team.TEMPORARY SANITY takes the reader from the opening arguments to the jury verdict in courtroom scenes so vivid and intense that readers will feel they are part of the case. Rose Connors can hold her own with such heavy weights as John Grisham, Scott Turow and Nancy Taylor Rosenberg using her expert knowledge of the law to make the case very realistic. It is interesting to see how a temporary insanity plea is used within the legal world and not on a Hollywood movie screen.Harriet Klausner