False Testimony (Marty Nickerson Novels) [Audio CD]

Rose Connors (Author), Bernadette Dunne (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2005 | Series: Marty Nickerson Novels

Charles Kendrick, the senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, has been named a "person of interest" in the disappearance of his twenty-five-year-old spokesperson, Michelle Forrester. A multistate manhunt is already under way, and DA Geraldine Schilling is pressuring Kendrick for an interview, which his lawyer, Marty Nickerson, doesn't want to grant. Three days later, Geraldine informs him that parts of his story don't check out . . .

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Connors's latest trip to the courtroom (after Maximum Security) follows busy, resilient Cape Cod attorney Marty Nickerson and her partner in love and law Harry Madigan as they handle two cases in which their clients' stories are highly suspicious. Marty is representing U.S. Sen. from the state of Massachusetts Charles Kendrick, whose attractive, talented 25-year-old staffer Michelle Forrester mysteriously disappears. Harry Madigan, meanwhile, is appointed public defender for recently released young con Derrick Holliston, who pleads self-defense in the brutal Christmas Eve murder of Fr. Francis Patrick McMahon, claiming the priest made untoward sexual advances. Both cases explode: Kendrick, who had a heated love affair with Michelle, admits that he was with her the night before she vanished, and Holliston commits "tactical suicide" with a short-lived decision to represent himself in court. A mad scramble ensues to assemble witnesses for the Kendrick case just as Michelle's body washes up in picturesque Pleasant Bay, an implicating quarter mile from the senator's estate. Connors smartly keeps her sleuthing tight and her courtroom acrobatics succinct for another excellent, fast-moving courtroom drama headed by a plucky, energetic heroine.
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From Booklist

Partners in love and law, Cape Cod attorneys Marty Nickerson and Harry Madigan don't know how they got themselves mixed up with the two crazy cases they face in their latest outing. In one, a young man barely out of juvenile hall is facing a murder rap and decides to defend himself (though by the judge's orders the attorneys have to sit at the counsel table "just in case"). And then there's Charles Kendrick, a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who some believe may have been involved in the disappearance of a young office worker. Something seems amiss with both of these clients' stories, and Marty and Harry, usually so tuned in to what's truthful and what's not, feel like they're grasping at straws with two defendants who are opposite in social status but equally stubborn. A quick read with plenty of interesting twists and turns, this fourth outing by established trial attorney Connors is sure to please courtroom-drama fans. Mary Frances Wilkens
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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; MP3 Una edition (July 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078618017X
• ISBN-13: 978-0786180172
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,787,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A new genre is born, March 5, 2007

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Does Not Matter (MA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: False Testimony: A Crime Novel (Marty Nickerson Novels) (Hardcover)

I suppose "mystery fluff" will be an accurate representation of this new and unique style:

There is a mystery out there, somebody is very plausibly accused of crime, however it is also possible that he (or she) may not committed it.

However, the book mostly tells us about how the prosecutor pivoted, how the judge smiled, and what kind of pizza was ordered for dinner. Nothing of significance is happening for the most of the book, but by the end of it we will know the answer and it is not necessary the expected one.

And despite of all of this, this fluff does not annoy you a bit, once you read one book you want to start another one.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars as good as John Grisham and Scott Turow, July 15, 2005

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This review is from: False Testimony: A Crime Novel (Marty Nickerson Novels) (Hardcover)

On Cape Cod, two lawyers coming from different directions in their careers met and became partners in their own firm. Marty Nickerson spent years as a prosecuting attorney in the District Attorney's office and Harry Madigan was a public defender before they became defense attorneys. They are lovers and work together on each other's case of which they have two.

U.S. Senator Charles Kendrick's staffer Michelle Forrester disappears without a trace between the time she left her boss's home and the time she was due to visit her parents. Both his wife and daughter know he had an affair with her. He has Marty to represent him but when Michelle's dead body is found the Senator admits his guilt; Marty doesn't believe him.

Harry is concentrating on the case of Derrick Holliston, who spent most of his young life in juvenile and just got out of prison. He is charged with the murder of Father Patrick McMahon. Derrick insists the priest was forcefully trying to sexually abuse him but the state claims it was a robbery gone terribly wrong. Both lawyers believe their client is guilty but they just might get him off on a technicality.

Two different cases, two very different people from opposite sides of the economic and social strata. Neither one is telling the truth but one is innocent and his lawyer believes part of the job is to find out who it is. The legal maneuvers of both lawyers are virtuosos employing brilliant strategy while in the end justice is served on all fronts. Rose Connors holds her own with the likes of John Grisham and Scott Turow.

Harriet Klausner

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Passable tale with lectures in between from a defense attorney, January 3, 2006

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Imagine Reason "Imagine" (Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: False Testimony: A Crime Novel (Marty Nickerson Novels) (Hardcover)

The writing? Alright. The story? Not many twists and turns. How I found it? In a free Reader's Digest digest. How I felt about the characters? I'll be the writer's a social conservative.

And no, it's no Pelican Brief, not that that's gonna be a classic anytime soon. And way too many self-justifying lectures about defense work.