Nancy Taylor Rosenberg Books In Order

Lily Forrester Books In Publication Order

  1. Mitigating Circumstances (1993)
  2. Buried Evidence (2000)
  3. The Cheater (2009)
  4. My Lost Daughter (2010)

Carolyn Sullivan Books In Publication Order

  1. Sullivan’s Law (2004)
  2. Sullivan’s Justice (2005)
  3. Sullivan’s Evidence (2006)
  4. Revenge of Innocents (2007)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Interest of Justice (1993)
  2. First Offense (1994)
  3. California Angel (1995)
  4. Trial by Fire (1996)
  5. Abuse of Power (1997)
  6. Conflict of Interest (1999)

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Nancy Taylor Rosenberg Books Overview

Mitigating Circumstances

Readers will want to rediscover the book that introduced attorney Lily Forrester. As the new Chief of the Sex Crimes Division, Lily is a champion of the modern legal system until a brutal attack against her teenaged daughter and herself forces Lily to take the law into her own hands…
. Praise for Mitigating Circumstances: ‘Better than Scott Turrow.’ Nelson DeMille’Adrenaline pumped…
No woman has ever had a stronger motive for vengeance than Lily Forrester.’ New York Times Book Review ‘Unstoppable…
Presumed Innocent crossed with Thelma and Louise.’ Glamour

Buried Evidence

As a dedicated district attorney, Lily Forrester presents 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 to step outside the law and exact a horrifying personal vengeance. Now her ex husband, faced with serious criminal charges, threatens to expose her unless she compromises her most cherished beliefs to help him. A violent rapist she put behind bars is back on the streets and looking for her. Her beloved daughter seems to be the target of a dangerous madman. And Lily must call on her deepest strength to face her accusers and ensure that the values she holds most dear will triumph. In this taunt new thriller, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg displays the brilliant legal expertise and dramatic flair that have made her books classics of suspense. This long awaited novel, filled with her trademark intriguing, complex characters and explosive storylines is a surefire recipe for success. Both dedicated fans and first time readers will be both thrilled and satisfied. This is Nancy Taylor Rosenberg at her nail biting best. A selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club.

The Cheater

Nancy Taylor Rosenberg has constantly been praised for her intense, dramatic suspense, breathing real life and trouble into her action packed thrillers. Her fourteen years in law enforcement have always given her novels great authenticity, often pulling inspiration from the very cases she has worked. Now comes The Cheater.

Returning to her most beloved character, Lily Forrester, from the New York Times bestsellers Mitigating Circumstances and Buried Evidence, Rosenberg proves once again that she is a master of the suspense thriller, as Forrester finds herself in yet another mix of bizarre circumstances that lead her onto the trail of a vicious criminal mind. Along the way we meet:

FBI Agent Mary Stevens She is tracking a killer who murders husbands who are cheating on their wives, their mutilated bodies disposed of in ghastly ways and strange locations. Bryce Forrester Lily’s husband calls her from a Las Vegas jail where he s been arrested for attempted rape even though Las Vegas was not on his itinerary. Anne Bradley Bryce s accuser, like Lily, is a woman with an eerie past an enigmatic figure to whom Lily is strangely drawn.

The trail leads back to a Web service that provides alibis for cheating spouses and into a thick web of deception that puts both Lily s and Mary s lives in jeopardy. Do you know where your husband is?

My Lost Daughter

Following her success with The Cheater, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg returns to her most memorable character, Lily Forrester. Lily is a tough judge in Ventura County, California, who has overcome adversity and heartache to achieve a position of power to help those who can t help themselves. Like the current case before her, the sensational murder trial of a woman who tortured and killed her beautiful two year old son. Lily is determined to see justice done but she’s thrown for a loop when she receives word that her own daughter, Shana, months away from graduating from Stanford Law School, is on the verge of dropping out. Lily rushes north and what she discovers causes her to fear for her daughter s mental state. She must get back to the trial and decides that she will take Shana to a facility where they can evaluate her and if needed give her some counseling or medication. Which is when things go horribly awry. For the institution that Lily has chosen is far less interested in treating patients than it is with bilking the insurance companies out of extravagant fees and they are less than scrupulous about patient s rights. Discovering the awful truth, Lily will have to summon all her intelligence and street smarts to find a way to free Shana. She will have to work fast however, for there is someone at the facility who seems to have his own agenda separate from the institution. And Lily s daughter may not only be in danger of losing her sanity but her life.

Sullivan’s Law

Monday morning’s are hell. That’s what Carolyn Sullivan is thinking as she arrives at her office at the Ventura County Probation Department. She’s got a paper due for law school. Two high energy kids who need to be in different places at the same time. A mountain of debt. Her boss is on the warpath before she even has a chance to grab her first cup of coffee. But Carolyn’s day is about to get a lot worse. One of her probationers has just been arrested for rape. It’s a front page headline story that leads squarely back to Carolyn’s paper strewn desk and overwhelming caseload. Could she have prevented the crime? She fears the top brass, pressured by the media, may destroy her career. Just when Carolyn should be lying low, instead she’s assigned a sensitive case that’s sure to have everyone breathing down her neck supervising convicted killer and paranold schizophrenic Daneil Metroix. Carolyn dives into a case that everyone else seems to want to keep closed…
one that leads behind the glossy exteriors of Ventura’s most prominent sons into the darkest corners of the American dream. Someone doesn’t want Carolyn to discover the truth. Someone who knows where she lives, where she goes, who she sees. Someone who will strike at the very heart of every mother’s worst fear in order to silence her for good.

Sullivan’s Justice

In her work for the Ventura County Probation Department, Carolyn Sullivan interviews the most dangerous, depraved criminals and Raphael Moreno is at the top of the list. The hardened street thug has been convicted in a series of gruesome and baffling murders, including the decapitation of his own mother. For the first time, Carolyn is face to face with a criminal who truly frightens her. But things are about to get much hotter and much deadlier for Carolyn. A phone call from her brother, Neil, propels her into a nightmare.

A popular bachelor and successful artist, Neil has discovered the body of his girlfriend, Laurel, floating in his swimming pool. When her death is ruled a homicide, Neil becomes the prime suspect. But he has an alibi he was in bed with Melody Asher, a seductive party girl and heiress. Their torrid affair is as steamy as it is addictive, a twisted game of manipulation and sexual blackmail. When Melody refuses to back up Neil’s story, the sensitive brother Carolyn thought she knew suddenly seems like a complete stranger. And then the most shattering news surfaces: Blood found in Neil s expensive new car links him to Raphael Moreno and his unthinkable crimes. As the evidence against Neil mounts, Carolyn is forced to ask herself troubling questions. Is he an innocent victim, or could he be hiding a darker side, a sinister streak that connects him to the brutal murders of nine people? Could the brother she loves actually be a cold hearted, ruthless killer?

The key to everything seems to be Moreno, but getting inside his head is a treacherous game. As the danger grows and shocking secrets are revealed, a shaken Carolyn must find the courage to make the ultimate decision whether to risk the lives of innocent people or save herself and those she loves most.

Sullivan’s Evidence

Ten years ago, Carolyn Sullivan recommended a forty four year sentence for vicious murderer and serial rapist Carl Holden. Cold, cunning, and without remorse, Holden was the kind of criminal the death penalty was made for, and the forensic evidence had him nailed or so everyone thought. But when the evidence is discredited, Holden is a free man again, and Carolyn is his assigned parole officer.

To the state, Holden is a man who has served his time. But Carolyn still remembers the grieving family and the victims who have been betrayed by a miscarriage of justice. She knows Holden for what he is a stone cold sociopath and she’s determined to see him behind bars forever. Then a chance traffic accident introduces Carolyn to charming and wealthy Marcus Wright, a man who seems to have as many secrets as he does bank accounts. Marcus wants Carolyn, and for the first time in a long time, Carolyn likes being wanted.

The killings start again. A body is found in the same location where Carl Holden buried his first victim. As more shocking crimes are uncovered, everything Carolyn has trusted as a professional is put to the test. With the stakes rising higher and time running out, Carolyn takes the biggest gamble of her life, one that could catch a killer or take her straight into her worst nightmare.

Revenge of Innocents

In Rosenberg’s new novel, probation officer Carolyn Sullivan confronts the brutal death of her best friend and the dark mystery that surrounds it. Carolyn knew everything about Veronica Campbell. She knew about the case of murder and retribution that haunted her life and career about her stormy relationship with her husband Drew; about the emotional darkness that was overwhelming Veronica’s fragile seventeen year old daughter Jude. But seeing her friend laid out on a cold hard slab of steel in a morgue, and hearing the initial judgments of the investigators, Carolyn also knows this: there’s no way Veronica would have ever taken her own life. And when Carolyn receives a note threatening her away from the case, she knows a killer is at large. Carolyn must separate lies from truths in a world of complex relationships and battered psyches. As a hidden side of Veronica’s life emerges, including the stunning possibility that Veronica had taken a lover, Carolyn becomes increasingly involved with Veronica’s daughter, who claims her father has been abusing her for years. Trusting a person she doesn’t truly know, putting her own upcoming marriage with wealthy, charming Marcus Wright in jeopardy, Carolyn investigates the brutal murder of another young woman. With danger and deceit swirling all around her, Carolyn is determined to lure her prime suspect out of the shadows. But all the while a killer is coming straight after her…

Interest of Justice

Judge Lara Sanderstone, young for the bench at thirty eight, is a brilliant and brave woman whose judicial career suddenly takes second place to her hunt for the savage murderer of her young sister and brother in law. In the aftermath of the hideous crime, Lara is left with the victims’ brutalized teenage son, Josh, on her hands and faced with the knowledge of the degradation that has consumed the sister she loved so much. Even more pressing, she herself is being stalked by a killer whose terrifying attacks leave no clue as to identity or motive. There is no safe haven for Lara not in the Orange County, California courtroom where an agonizing case of child abuse and assault is putting the law on trial and the legal system through the wringer; not in the condo where she is hiding with the troubled Josh, whom she cannot abandon yet cannot fully trust; not in the arms of a high powered lawyer who offers her sex without love in return for the comfort of his companionship. She must seek help from a tough homicide detective, to whom she is compellingly drawn, and from a computer genius crippled in body yet strong in spirit. Her life under a sinister sentence of death, her job hanging by an unraveling thread, she must search the corridors of power to uncover a sexual breeding ground for murder. And finally, what she discovers is as shattering to her faith and trust as it is fatally threatening to her and thos she loves.

First Offense

In First Offense, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg draws on her personal experience as a California probation officer to create a remarkable hero*ine in Ann Carlisle, who suddenly finds herself the target of someone who wishes to harm not only her but also her teenage son. As a probation officer, Ann knows what it means to walk a treacherously thin line between dangerous criminals who have scores to settle-and the system that seeks to punish them. As a wife, she holds closely guarded secrets about her police officer husband, who inexplicitly vanished over four years ago. And as a woman who has been sexually reawakened by a handsome, hard-driving district attorney after being alone too long, she is haunted by the specter of a mate who may suddenly reappear…
and terrified on an unknown enemy who seems to know her every move and thought.

The danger is clear to Ann from the moment a bullet hits her while she is leaving work one day. Ironically, the man who comes to her aid and saver her life is one of the first offenders she is supervising-convicted drug dealer Jimmy Sawyer. What was this smooth talking, slick moving, almost too good looking young man doing at the scene of the shooting?

No one is able to help Ann find answers, not her dynamic, career obsessed lover, or the cops who were buddies of her missing husband and who look on her as prone to shock and fantasy-especially when the evidence of an unspeakable crime she finds in Jimmy Sawyer’s house disappears before she can prove it existed. Meanwhile, she is investigating a man accused of a series of brutal rapes, never suspecting his case will have a bearing on her own growing peril.

California Angel

Who she really is and what she really does are bewildering questions even for Toy Johnson. She only knows that a near death experience has launched her on a journey into the unknown a journey she is destined to repeat again and again with astonishing results. When she returns to her familiar work world as a teacher in Southern California and her seemingly ideal marriage to a brilliant surgeon, she is haunted by dreamlike memories of children on the brink of death children she believes she has somehow saved. Her husband, Stephen, thinks she is hallucinating. Her best friend, Sylvia, thinks she is suffering from the frustrations of a childless marriage. The staff of a high tech Manhattan hospital thinks this is how she deals with her mysterious and frightening malady. Yet despite what anyone thinks, when Toy sees herself on television rescuing a boy from a deadly fire, she knows she is a purveyor of miracles a living angel. But this newfound vision of herself is challenged when she is arrested for kidnapping and charged with murder. Toy’s incredible journey into the realms of magic and divine intervention climaxes in a breathtaking courtroom trial where the laws of man come in riveting conflict with far higher laws, and ordinary reason comes face to face with extraordinary revelation. While Nancy Taylor Rosenberg offers here the same gripping level of drama and suspense for which she is famous, she also opens the door to a wondrous world where the spirit can triumphantly transcend the flesh. In Toy Johnson, she has crated a hero*ine who will do more than make you believe in angels she will make you believe in human beings.

Trial by Fire

Brilliant, hard driving Stella Cataloni is the star of the Dallas Distric Attorney’s office, with an amazing 100 percent conviction rate. Buth the conviction she most desperately wants agonizingly eludes her. The fire that years ago killed her parents and scarred her life remains unsolved. When her ex boyfriend, Tom Randall, who stella is convinced set the fire, suddenly reappears in Houston, Stella vows revenge. But when Randall is brutally murdered, his death puts the arson case in a new light and gives Houston D.A. Holly Oppenheimer the ruthless opportunity to put Stella behind bars for both crimes. Once Stella’s friend, Holly becomes a formidable adversary, willing to use her knowledge of Stella’s personal secrets to her own advantage. As headlines scream BATTLE OF THE WOMEN D.A.’s and the media circus begins, Stella’s key hope of proving her innocence is to do what the police cannot or will not do: find the killer who has mocked the law not once but twice. Stella finds herself in a maze of intrigue and corruption stretching back fifteen years and leading to ugly revelations behind flawless masks of innocence. Plagued by suspicions that seem too horrible to be true yet refuse to be denied, she realizes she is being shadowed by a murderer as she seeks the truth in her own defense. Even as she uses every tool from forensic animation to virtual reality to turn the tide of the courtroom battle, Stella must apply every ounce of her nerve and brains to escape the unseen enemy who will stop at nothing to see her dead. With tension that turns tighter at every searing exposure and disclosure, and total authenticity in every line, Trial by Fire proves that Nancy Taylor Rosenberg is the most compelling writer of legal thrillers today.

Abuse of Power

Rachel Simmons, an idealistic thirty four year old widow with two children to raise, joins the Oak Grove, California, police force for reasons that go beyond economic necessity. Upholding the law has had a special meaning for Rachel ever since she was kidnapped as a child and her life was saved by a courageous policeman. When Rachel witnesses a vicious abuse of police authority and reports it she propels herself into a nightmare of conflict and terror. By cracking the sacred blue code of silence, she has made enemies of the very men and women who hold her life in their hands armed adversaries who are accustomed to exercising their power and will stop at nothing to ensure her silence. Suddenly there is danger everywhere Rachel’s children are threatened, her name is slandered, a shooting frame up puts her on the legal defensive, and someone is bent on her death. She is alone, increasingly afraid, and forced to rely on an ambitious attorney whose motives she questions, even as he seems to offer a way out. With its riveting revelations of the harsh reality of life behind the badge and a plot that moves from shock to shock, Abuse of Power bristles with danger and excitement, both on the streets and in court. Its shattering conclusion will make readers think hard about many issues in today’s headlines. This compelling novel shows Nancy Taylor Rosenberg at her finest.

Conflict of Interest

Nancy Taylor Rosenberg is one of the most recognized names in the thriller genre. Her latest offering, Conflict of Interest, is a masterpiece of suspensea complex and profound novel featuring a veteran female district attorney attempting to reconstruct her shattered personal life when she is suddenly plunged into a moral, legal, and emotional nightmare. While trying three defendants for robbery, Joanne Kuhlman discovers a far more serious crime may be unfolding. One of the defendants is developmentally disabled. His attorney and mother insist he was cruelly exploited by his crime partners. When the young man disappears, Joanne fears he may have been murdered in a ruthless act to silence him. Her sympathies for this defendant lead her to entangle herself with his attractive attorney and compromise her career so the truth may be revealed. Filled with extensively researched detail, breathtaking plot twists, and front page legal drama, Conflict of Interest provides irrefutable evidence that Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, one of the pioneers of the legal thriller genre, is still writing at the top of her game.

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