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Rosenberg's latest thriller is a sure-fire winner. The third in a series featuring parole office Carolyn Sullivan, SULLIVAN'S EVIDENCE has our leading lady tracking down a violent rapist amid a number of new murders. As in previous books, the well-developed story is dramatic, detailed and full of terrifying suspense. Keep them coming, Nancy! Another blood-tingling book I read recently that involved a fearless mother working to find a rapist/murderer was DEATH ANGEL by Martha Powers - also a 5-star read.

Sullivan's Evidence Overview

New York Times bestselling author Nancy Taylor Rosenberg's latest thriller finds probation officer Carolyn Sullivan pursuing a twisted killer in a case that defies logic, evidence, and Carolyn's own street smarts. . .

It's been ten years since Carolyn Sullivan helped put vicious murderer and serial rapist Carl Holden behind bars. Forensic evidence had him nailed dead to rights. But in a stunning turn of events, Holden is once again a free man-and Carolyn is his probation officer.

To the state, Holden has served his time. To Carolyn, he represents a heinous miscarriage of justice. Then a body is found in the same location where Holden buried his first victim. As the dead count quickly mounts, everything Carolyn ever trusted as a professional is put to the test. With time running out, only the biggest gamble of her life can stop a ruthless killer-or bring alive her worst nightmare.

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Customer Reviews

sullivan's evidence - -
hard to believe this is written by an award winning author--skip this mess and use your time more productively



Not good - pflcipresrchr - USA
I thought the writing was amateurish; not what I would've expected from a "New York Times Bestselling" author. This book was the first I've read from Ms. Rosenberg and I wouldn't pick up another one. I'm finishing a degree in creative writing and if I turned in any part of this novel as an assignment (theoretically speaking), my professors would tear it apart. However, I am in no way an established author, so I'm really in no position to judge Ms. Rosenberg as a writer. This novel was a huge disappointment, though. I felt I was reading a romance novel, at times. The plot changed so drastically (and unbelievably) towards the end. I felt like the author's only concern was to maintain the romance component of the story. I would not recommend this book at all.



What?! You've got to be kidding me - Evan the Dweezil - A Place-Sort Of, Montana
This book started out with a lot of promise. A working mom with a lot on her plate, Carolyn is a likable enough gal. She's faced with seeing a Brutal Killer go free because a forensic scientist was sloppy. After that set up, the story goes straight downhill from there.

Carolyn quickly descends into "Too Stupid To Live" territory, making multiple blunders and emotional outbursts that should rightfully have gotten her maimed and killed instead of just shaken up. She endangers her family and divulges every last detail of Brutal Killer's case to Some Guy she met when she ran into his car.

Brutal Killer has some competition with Evil Twin. Evil Twin shows up about halfway through, failing to kill his wife, and has conveniently made it look like Brutal Killer has murdered women Evil Twin is good for. The best part of this book is in the form of Not Dead Wife stalking and planning to kill Evil Twin.

Through his own stupidity, Some Guy tries to chase down Brutal Killer on his own. Carolyn's friends are all jealous and doubtful about Some Guy. Carolyn gets all weird and emotional about Some Guy, when she doesn't really know much more about him than the zeros in his bank account.

In the end, this book is so hamstrung by it's own cleverness that it's a miserable read. The poor characters made it even worse. Honorable mention to the setting: No one wants to read about Oxnard and Ventura when LA and San Diego are to the south and San Francisco is to the north. There are too many neat places that people like to read about in California to have a book trapped in McMansion infested commuter country.

One last thing, who was the editor on this book? That person deserves to be fired.





The Evidence is In: This book is bad - mrliteral -
A while ago, I happened to pick up three novels by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, all featuring probation office Carolyn Sullivan. The first two, Sullivan's Law and Sullivan's Justice were so-so books, neither good nor bad, just passable diversions. Rosenberg breaks that pattern in the third book, Sullivan's Evidence, but not for the better: this book is really bad.

Actually, the novel starts out promisingly enough, leading me to initially believe that this would be the best of the three. When the chief forensics officer for Ventura County is found guilty of tampering with evidence, many of the cases he previously handled are called into question. One man, Carl Holden, is set free from prison. Carolyn knows he is a bad man, however, not merely guilty of the single murder he was originally convicted for, but a likely serial killer. When another dead body is found near Holden's original corpse-dumping site, Carolyn is certain that Holden's the murderer. Hunches, however, are not enough, and the search for evidence will lead in unexpected directions, some of which point to Carolyn's new boyfriend.

Done correctly, this could be an interesting story, but Rosenberg has botched things up this time. First of all, Carolyn, never bright when choosing the men in her life, has now become almost criminally idiotic. In particular, she makes one dumb choice that winds up almost getting her raped and murdered by Holden; even though she escapes that, her decision will also endanger her two children. Even then, given an opportunity to get help, she ignores the chance, further risking her life (and that of a police officer); the fact that she is able to get out of this middle-of-the-book crisis will be more the result of dumb luck than anything else. I suppose if this was a comic novel, such behavior could be acceptable, but Rosenberg seems to treat Carolyn as a heroine.

But among the flaws in this book, Carolyn Sullivan's character problems seem the least significant. What's worse? For starters, the plot goes from merely complex to overly muddled. Much of the story depends on pure coincidence, most significantly with Carolyn's love interest, Marcus Wright: what are the odds that she would have an auto accident and meet a man who would just happen to be involved in the case she is helping investigate? There are plenty of other coincidences that tie together story elements that should be completely separated. Maybe worst of all, the resolution of the story depends on one of the most tired cliches in suspense fiction, which I won't disclose here (but it is such a cliché that you hardly ever see it much nowadays, since most writers realize how stale it is).

Of course, Rosenberg has enough skills to keep the story moving relatively quickly, but there is little to recommend this story. If this were a first-time novel, I might give it a generous two stars, but Rosenberg, a supposed accomplished author with nearly a dozen published books, should be better than this and gets only one star. Either she just mailed this one in or she is simply overrated. This wasn't my first Rosenberg book, but it's very likely my last. Even if you're a Rosenberg fan, you should skip this clunker and find a better writer; there are many to choose from, and once you realize there are much better authors, you're unlikely to return.


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