title: Temporary Sanity: A Crime Novel
author:  Rose Connors 
description: "It occurs to me, as I pack up my briefcase," says Cape Cod attorney Marty Nickerson, "that I'm two for two. First in Buck Hammond's case, and now in this one, I'm arguing that the dead guy deserved it. I've barely begun my career with the defense bar, but I seem to be developing a niche." Any niche is a good niche for Marty-who in Connors's smart, sassy and exciting second crime novel (after 2002's Absolute Certainty) has switched from ace prosecutor to determined defender without missing a beat. Marty and her lover, former Barnstable County public defender Harry Madigan, have plunged into private practice, taking on the controversial case of Hammond-a distraught father who shot, on live television, the man who raped and murdered his seven-year-old son. Then, to add to single mother Marty's impossible work load as Christmas approaches, a savagely battered woman client is charged with the stabbing death of her attacker, a brutal parole officer. Connors, a veteran trial attorney, has a rich enough stock of mordant legal anecdotes to keep her going for years. Even more important, she is so good at creating believable characters (two very different judges, a sardonically ambitious but sympathetic district attorney, a couple of winning teenagers) that even readers with little interest in courtroom shenanigans should find in favor of her humanity.<br />Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: **Unperfect Souls**
  
    
  
   _ **( Connor Grey - 4 )**_ ****
  
  **Mark Del Franco**
  
   _ **A thrilling new Connor Grey urban fantasy**_ __
  
  _In the Boston neighborhood known as the Weird, a decapitated body floats out
  of the sewer, and former Guild investigator Connor Grey uncovers a conspiracy
  that may bring down the city's most powerful elite. As the violence escalates,
  Connor is determined to stop it-with help from one of the most dangerous
  beings of Faerie. Even if it means unleashing the darkness that burns within
  him._
  
    
  
  >  **Unperfect Souls**
  
  >  **(The fourth book in the Connor Grey series)**
  
  >  **Mark Del Franco**
  
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   _To Paul, who knew when to listen and when to kick my butt_
  
  >  **1**
  
  The water cut off in the middle of my shower. Irritation settled over me as I
  suspected the mayor and the police had taken another drastic step to isolate
  the neighborhood from the rest of the city. When you lived surrounded by
  barricades and security patrols, a little