FIRST OFFENCE

Rosenberg's new counter spoke and an angel of vengeance is the probation officer Ann Carlisle in California. The beautiful blonde single mom. Ann doesn't kill for justice but illegally enters to get her man. The plot is buzzed with intrigue and suspense that who shot Ann in the shoulder? And speculate if it was Ann's new drug-dealing probationer.  Is it the drug dealer who breaks into the house and molests her? Is Ann’s prosecutor eager to see an accused rapist in the prison? Just when the readers will have figured all the angles and sites, savvy Rosenberg has unveiled the villain and flipped the plot into a riveting and intriguing manhunt, with Ann being the bait.

In her thriller novel, Nancy Taylor Rosenburg has drawn on her personal experiences as a Californian probationary officer to create a heroine in Ann Carlisle. She suddenly finds herself as being the target for someone who wishes to harm her and her teenage son David. She knows what it is like to walk on a dangerously thin line between the system that seeks to punish the criminals and the criminals who have scores to settle. She holds the guarded secrets of her life with Hank who suddenly has vanished and it has been four years since then. Ann is haunted by the phantom of a mate who suddenly reappears and as a woman, she is sexually awakened by a hard-driving and handsome district attorney after being alone for too long. She is terrified of an unknown enemy who seemingly knows her every move and thought.

Ann is clear of the danger from the moment she is shot while she is leaving for work one day. What were this slick-moving and a smooth-talking young man doing at the crime scene? Ann seeks to find answers but no one can help her- not her career-obsessed lover, or the cop buddies of her missing husband. Meanwhile, she investigates a man who is accused of a series of rapes, and not suspecting his case has a bearing on her growing peril.

The bestselling track record Rosenberg's First Offence is a legal-action thriller. The probation officer Ann Carlisle came apart at the seams when her cop husband, Hank, who was a highway patrolman disappeared. Four years later, David, her 12-year-old son, gets nightmares and wets his bed, and is found fat slugging. Ann dates a rugged and an ostentatious pretentious assistant DA Glen Hopkins. Ann’s world is turned upside down when she is shot outside the courthouse. The probationer Jimmy Sawyer saves her life and is charged with the crime. He immediately besmirches Ann, saying the affair between the two went all sour.

Ann is taken to the hospital and recovers. She wasn’t injured seriously and thinks of it as a random shooting but to her surprise, she comes to know about the ignition wires in the Jeep being cut. Ann later realizes that she was shot intentionally, but doesn't know who shot her. She thinks of her husband, Hank to be the perpetrator as he was missing for four years. Everyone thought he was dead, but Ann thought she saw him when she was lying on the sidewalk after she was shot.

Ann starts getting harassing phone calls from a man sounding like Hank and is forced to remember that she had a hellish marriage. Ann fears that she'll have to estrange Glen because she had uncovered evidence that could free a rapist, and Tommy Reed, a macho man-like cop, stifles her with concern. Ann is a victim who goes on the offensive. Her girlish ways and her deference to the men she loves obscure her actions.

Ann tries to pull her life together and goes back to her job. She continues dating the district attorney, but a man breaks into her house one night who molests and tries to rape her. She breaks away from him and catches hold of her gun. The man runs away as she fires a shot. She thinks Hank to be the man who breaks into her house by his build, his voice, and that he seemed familiar. Ann gets help from her friends as she tries to figure out who is the person behind these attacks.

The First Offense is a thriller-suspense and masterpiece with a strong female in lead. The author has created a headstrong protagonist in Ann Carlisle who is a probation officer in danger. Ann being a probation officer kills not for justice but illegally enters to get hold of her man. Rosenberg has flipped the plot into an intriguing manhunt, with Ann being the bait. There are interesting plot twists that make it a must-read for people especially lawyers and students studying legal studies. Rosenberg has notched up to another pleasing page-turner with First Offence