Rose Connors

After Martha "Marty" Nickerson, an assistant district attorney on Cape Cod, won a murder case, the suspect is put behind bars. But soon another body turns up in disturbingly similar circumstances. Did Marty and her colleagues target the wrong man?

A U.S. senator is a suspect in the disappearance of a young female staffer while another man is accused of murdering a priest. Both clients are lying. Lawyers Marty Nickerson and Harry Madigan must battle both for and against their own cagey clients in order to see justice served.

At the urgent request of her law partner, Marty Nickerson takes on the defense of Louisa Rawlins, a woman suspected of murdering her wealthy husband. Though the evidence against Louisa is compelling, Marty's gut tells her something doesn't quite fit.