Nancy Taylor Rosenberg spent fourteen years in law enforcement, including affiliations with the Dallas Police Department, the New Mexico State Department, the Ventura Police, and the Ventura County Probation Department, where she was a superior court investigator. Her first novel, Mitigating Circumstances, quickly became a New York Times bestseller, as have Rosenberg's subsequent novels, including Interest of Justice, First Offense, California Angel, Trial By Fire, Abuse of Power, and Buried Evidence.