Temporary Sanity, by rose Connors, A-minus.Narrated by Bernadet Dunn, produced by blackstone audio, downloaded from audible.com.I like these books about attorney Martha Nickerson. I think I must actually by accident have hit the second book in the series. In the first book, Absolute Certainty, Marty was working for the prosecutor’s office and had done so for ten years. But she had a falling-out with her boss, and resigned from the prosecutor’s office at the end of the book. In this second book, she has decided to become partners with her current love interest in a defense attorney firm. Her first two cases are going to be very demanding. There is the woman who showed up at the law office in terrible shape because her husband had abused her, and then her husband turned up dead. She is of course the main suspect. The second case involves a man who killed, in front of television video cameras, the man who had sexually molested and then murdered his seven-year-old son. The only defense that seems possible, since there’s no doubt he did it, is the defense of temporary insanity, not often a winner as any defense attorney knows. This was a very warm and exciting book with all the legal maneuvers spelled out for you as we went along. Bernadet Dunn read both of these books, and these books show her to very good advantage as a narrator. I will read more of these.
Legal tale of man killing his young son’s rapist and murderer and the act being caught on tape. Good read - characters, writing, plot.
What do You think about Temporary Sanity (2004)?
A court room drama where an attorney tried to defend using a temporary insanity plea. Very beautifully written and at no point of of time it looks like slow. There is another story about a battered women running parallel in the book, which is somewhat related to the main plot. Defending a man, when the murder have been captured in camera is quite difficult and the Marty Nickerson had a tough task in front of her, especially when the judge seems to be biased and prejudiced against the defendant. The climax took a great turn when the Jury declared that the defendant was not insane at the time of murder and everybody was in shock.... Read on more to find out what happened next... :-)
—Ajitabh Pandey
Marty Nickerson is an enjoyably real person who struggles to accept being a "mediocre mom" while finding herself entangled in defending the accused. I would want Marty on my side if I were a defendant as she is curious and thinks outside-the-box. Rose Connors writing is crisp and clean but still pulls you into the story. Again, I think the only weakness in Connor's stories are the selection of a conclusion that reveals the culprit without dropping more clues throughout the story. I am still puzzling over the mode of murder in this case.
—Carolyn Wallis
