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Mitigating Circumstances (Lily Forrester, Bk 1)
Mitigating Circumstances - Lily Forrester, Bk 1
Author: Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Lily, a beautiful assistant district attorney, murders a Hispanic man who raped her and her daughter. But despite Lily's certainty of her rightness, she grows increasingly guilt-ridden and fearful that her vigilante crime will be discovered. — Lily Forrester is an ambitious Assistant District Attorney on the rise in her professional career an...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780451176721
ISBN-10: 0451176723
Publication Date: 10/1/1993
Pages: 416
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 72 ratings
Publisher: Signet Book
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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midnitebutterfly06 avatar reviewed Mitigating Circumstances (Lily Forrester, Bk 1) on + 36 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Set in the crowded courts, high-speed thruways and glamorous suburbs of So. California, this compulsively readable novel tells the story of Lily Forrester, a feisty, dedicated Asst.District Attorney on the rise in her professional career, and on the brink in her private life. Newly appointed as Chief of the Sex Crimes Div. she is eager to plunge into a job she has long coveted. At the same time she is coping with a floundering marriage and the lure of a man to whom she is strongly attracted. All that keeps her marriage together is her quirky 13 year old daughter. But when an intruder invades their home and commits an unspeakable crime, Lily heads out on a trail of vengeance beyond any law but that of her own rage. And with one shattering act, her life spins out of control. Suddenly she is alone, with a circle of danger closing in around her, leaving her nowwhere to run or hide and no one to trust. This is a novel that blends riveting suspense with an irresistible insider's look at the shifting dynamics between cops and killers, prosecutors and defenders, law and order.
reviewed Mitigating Circumstances (Lily Forrester, Bk 1) on + 23 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This novel blend suspense with an insider's look at the shifting of dynamics between cops and killers, prosecutors and defenders, law and order. This is the story of a fiesty dedicated Assistant DA on the risk in her professional career.
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annalovesbooks avatar reviewed Mitigating Circumstances (Lily Forrester, Bk 1) on
ISBN 0451176723 - Almost a sister to Nancy Wagner's All Our Lives (ISBN 0380778084), Mitigating Circumstances is not quite as good. Both books deal with a family dealing with the rape of a daughter and a marriage that's fallen apart, but Wagner's is just a little bit better.

Lily Forrester is an ADA who has just been made head of the Sex Crimes Division and sees her goal of becoming a judge within sight when her marriage finally unravels. Her daughter chooses to live with her father, but spends a fateful night at her mother's. The timing couldn't be worse, as a man who has been watching Lily is released from prison and stalks her to her new home and assaults mother and daughter.

Her own childhood abuse coupled with the horror of watching her own daughter raped drives Lily right over that vigilante line and she seeks justice outside the courtroom for the first time in her life. Now her career, her daughter, her marriage, her freedom, her sanity and her budding relationship with a fellow ADA are all on the line as one very good detective looks for answers.

The sex in this book tends toward graphic and violent and some of it is remarkably unnecessary, which wasn't too surprising since the main character works in Sex Crimes, but I did find a bit much now and then. Also a little off-putting was the sense that "all Latinos look alike", although that does get explained as "she wasn't wearing her glasses" - not a good excuse, but an excuse. On the funny side, Lily is a lawyer with a young teenaged daughter who borrows her clothes, which would be fine if they weren't her WORK clothes! No teenage girl wants to dress like their lawyer mother, unless their lawyer mother dresses really unprofessionally.

All in all, kind of an average book that would have benefitted greatly if Detective Cunningham had had a larger role and if John, Lily's husband had been an even remotely sympathetic character.

- AnnaLovesBooks
okiegal avatar reviewed Mitigating Circumstances (Lily Forrester, Bk 1) on
Glamour review says it all -"Unstoppable...'Presumed Innocent' crossed with 'Thelma and Louise'!"
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Excellent book and excellent author!


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