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In this sequel to Rosenberg's runaway bestseller Mitigating Circumstances, Lily Forrester has become a dedicated district attorney, presenting the perfect image of a defender of justice. Only she knows the dark secret of what happened six years ago, when a desperate crisis drove her outside the law to exact a horrifying personal vengeance. Now her ex-husband, faced with criminal charges, threatens to expose her unless she compromises her beliefs to help him. Lily must call on her deepest strength to face her accusers and ensure that the values she holds most dear will triumph.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Rosenberg cannot be accused of pandering to the reader. One is never sure who to root for in her latest kinetic crime thriller, as usual set in Southern California. The protagonist of Mitigating Circumstances, feisty, red-headed Lily Forrester, formerly of the Ventura DA's office, is now DA in Santa Barbara. Her ex-husband, John Forrester, who has been living with their 18-year-old daughter, Shana, is losing his battle with the bottle and has been arrested for vehicular manslaughter. He was driving Shana's car when he hit and killed a young manÄa student, like Shana, at UCLA. John blackmails Lily into bailing him out of jail, bartering Lily's secret in an effort to escape prosecution. (Six years before, Shana was brutally raped while Lily was forced to look on, and Lily shot and killed the wrong man in retaliation.) The real rapist has recently been released on parole and is once again stalking the two women. Enter Lily's former love-interest, Richard Fowler, who resurfaces in her life as the lawyer for a man Lily is prosecuting for attempting to poison his handicapped daughter. Richard ends up representing Lily (after dumping his live-in girlfriend) when the police attempt to sort out the many subplots and solve a six-year-old crime no one really cares about. Rosenberg addresses questions of conscience: the man Lily shot was himself a serial killer. Should she be prosecuted for bumping him off? Prone to hysteria, whining and selfishness, the characters presented here are barely likable. Still, the plot presents a compelling moral dilemma, the action is fast-paced and the pages turn easily. $300,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection; author appearances in Los Angeles and New York. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Six years after she lashed out at the rapist who attacked her and her daughter, vaulting her author to the first of six bestselling suspensers ( Mitigating Circumstances , 1992), Santa Barbara A.D.A. Lily Forrester is back. So is the rapist. Ordinarily, there's nothing Lily likes better than mixing it up with bad guys like Henry Middleton, the failing furniture-store mogul she's itching to indict for poisoning his developmentally challenged, well-insured daughter, 8, into a deep coma. But one bad guy she's never wanted to see again is Marco Curazon, the man who assaulted her and her daughter Shana, then 13, who helped identify him from mug shots after Lily had already shot and killed Bobby Hernandez thinking he was the perp. Now, after Lily's been living for six years with the corrosive knowledge of her fatal mistake, two new developments drag the whole stinking mess into the open again. First, her alcoholic ex John, desperate for a bone to throw the Ventura cops when he's picked up for a hit-and-run death, offers to turn her in for a get-out-of-jail-free card. Then she finds out that Marco Curazon's been paroled. It isn't bad enough that Shana, now a sophomore at UCLA sharing a place with her faithless father, still can't smell roses or sit in a dentist's chair without seeing Curazon's face hovering over hers; all too soon, it seems, she's likely to see his whole body. No wonder Lily tells Middleton attorney Richard Fowler, her once and future lover: "I'm beginning to think I have only two roles in lifevictim or suspect"a remark that could stand as an emblem for the whole lawyer-in-jeopardy genre. Rosenberg pushes all the usual buttons, but despite some sharp anti-domestic scenes and some anguished soul-searching, there's nowhere for this old case to go the second time around, and that's where it ends up going. $300,000 ad/promo; author tour
Booklist Review
Nearly a decade ago, Rosenberg, who had worked for some years in the criminal justice system, took best-seller lists by storm with Mitigating Circumstances (1992). She published five more best-sellers with Dutton, but now shifts to Hyperion, starting with a sequel to her debut performance. When Lily Forrester took the law into her own hands in Mitigating Circumstances, her actions were at once understandable--she was pursuing a man who'd raped her and her daughter Shana--and out of character for a prosecutor who truly believed in the justice system. Six years later, Lily has divorced her alcoholic husband and become a prosecutor in Santa Barbara, but past crimes and past loves haunt Lily and those for whom she cares. The convicted rapist is released on parole and seems to be stalking college student Shana. Shana's father, with whom she lives, is charged with a felony and threatens to reveal Lily's past. And ex-lover Richard is back, initially as legal adversary, ultimately as defense attorney. Meanwhile, troubling cases she's prosecuting challenge Lily's professional judgment. A Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection, Buried Evidence will appeal to Rosenberg's fans and perhaps expand her readership. --Mary Carroll