Absolute Certainty: A Crime Novel

As an assistant D.A. for Massachusetts' Barnstable County, Marty Nickerson sees her job as a means for doing right. When a jury finds Manuel Rodriguez guilty of a brutal murder committed on a Cape Cod beach at the beginning of last year's tourist season, Marty feels vindicated. But then another body turns up as this year's vacationers begin to arrive and Marty has to wonder: Did they target the wrong man? The D.A. refuses to reopen the high-profile case, but Marty fears that the real killer will strike again. With her career on the line and lives at stake, she must rely on her own moral compass, legal savvy, and gut instinct as she matches wits with a twisted killer.

Rose Connors grew up in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. She graduated from Mount St. Mary's College with a degree in American history in 1978 and from the Duke University School of Law in 1984. A trial attorney for eighteen years, she is admitted to practice in both Washington State and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is a member of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. She lives in Chatham with her husband, Admiralty attorney David Farrell, and their sons, Dave and Sam. Rose Connors' second Marty Nickerson novel, Temporary Sanity, is forthcoming from Scribner. She is currently at work on a third book in the series.