Corruption, violence, rape and a mother's vengeance are the explosive ingredients of this exceptional thriller. Promotion to chief of the Sex Crimes Division, and a budding romance with colleague Richard Fowler, give DA Lily Forrester the courage to end a bad marriage. Once she gets teenage Shana through the divorce, she can really start to live her own life. But the dream is shattered when a brutal intruder invades her home and attacks Lily and her daughter. And - distraught, terrified, frantic to protect Shana - Lily takes the law into her own hands ...

First Offence

by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

Published 8 September 1994
Probation Officer Ann Carlisle is coping with her husband's unsolved disappearance, and her young son's consequent problems, the best way she knows - launching a one-woman war on crime. But when an apparently random shooting leads to a grisly discovery in a probationer's abandoned drug lab, Ann soon realises that both she and her son are in deadly danger. Could the intruder who so brutally attacks her, the source of the sinister phone messages, be her missing husband? Or is someone trying to frighten her out of testifying about her discovery.