Fiction / Legal Mystery/Thriller
400 pages /3140 KB
5 Stars
I have read some of Ms. Clark's earlier books, and found them quite enjoyable, but I do think this is the best I've read so far. This book introduces us to Samantha Brinkman, a smart, fearless, defense attorney who is barely making it. Her office manager and BFF since school days convinces her to take on a high profile case where a cop is accused of killing his girl friend, a famous and well-liked actress just coming back from addiction, and her roommate.
While preparing for trial, the cop drops a bombshell into Sam's lap—he knows her biological dad, a person she's never met, and her mother can't remember his name as it was (allegedly) a one-night stand. And someone leaks information to the press that the cop in question was also investigated a year or so earlier for raping a hooker.
Sam is convinced the cop is innocent, that the roommate was the primary target. And even if he is a jerk, he is her jerk, and she will defend him to the utmost because she believes in the law and that innocence must be defended. Ms. Clark takes us through some of the seamier aspects of LA, and brings us out at the end, a bit singed perhaps, but oh-so-much wiser. And very eager to read the next in the series, which I have already ordered.
Books (and one story) by Marcia Clark I've read and reviewed:
Guilt by Degrees, http://lenoragood.blogspot.com/2013/03/guilty-pleasure-by-degrees.html
Guilt by Association, http://lenoragood.blogspot.com/2013/04/guilt-by-association.html
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