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    Snap Judgment
    Snap Judgment
    Snap Judgment
    Audiobook12 hours

    Snap Judgment

    Written by Marcia Clark

    Narrated by Angela Dawe

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In the third installment of Marcia Clark’s bestselling series, attorney Samantha Brinkman’s investigation into a family’s deadly secrets is compromised by a threat from her past.

    When the daughter of prominent civil litigator Graham Hutchins is found with her throat slashed, the woman’s spurned ex-boyfriend seems the likely suspect. But only days later, the young man dies in what appears to be a suicide. Or was it? Now authorities are faced with a possible new crime. And their person of interest is Hutchins. After all, avenging the death of his daughter is the perfect reason to kill. If he’s as innocent as he claims, only one lawyer has what it takes to prove it: his friend and colleague Samantha Brinkman.

    It’s Sam’s obligation to trust her new client. Yet the deeper she digs on his behalf, the more entangled she becomes in a thicket of family secrets, past betrayals, and multiple motives for murder. To win her case, she’s prepared to bend any law and cross any boundary that stands in her way. Sam has always played by her own rules, and it’s always worked…so far. But this case cuts so deep and so personal that one false move could cost her everything.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 29, 2017
    ISBN9781536694895
    Snap Judgment
    Author

    Marcia Clark

    California native Marcia Clark is the author of Blood Defense, Moral Defense, and Snap Judgment, the first three books in the Samantha Brinkman series, as well as Guilt by Association, Guilt by Degrees, Killer Ambition, and The Competition in the Rachel Knight series. A practicing criminal lawyer since 1979, she joined the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office in 1981, where she served as prosecutor for the trials of Robert Bardo—convicted of killing actress Rebecca Schaeffer—and, most notably, O. J. Simpson. The bestselling Without a Doubt, which she cowrote, chronicles her work on the Simpson trial. Clark has been a frequent commentator on a variety of shows and networks, including Today, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, and MSNBC, as well as a legal correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. For more about the author, visit www.marciaclarkbooks.com.

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    • 5/5
      Good book, but getting really tired of her constant plug of her alcoholic drink. Is she getting kickbacks from the company? We get it. She drinks the same kind of drink. We don't need to hear it over and over and over and over and over again.
    • 5/5
      Title: Snap JudgmentAuthor: Marcia ClarkPublisher: Thomas & MercerSeries: Samantha Brinkman Book 3Reviewed By: Arlena DeanRating: FiveReview:"Snap Judgment" by Marcia ClarkMy Speculation:We now have another book 3 'Snap Judgment' delivered to us well-written by this author in the Samantha Brinkman series. There will be some fascinating characters as we have Samantha, her legal staff, Michelle Fusco [Michy], Alex Medrano. Let's not leave out Sam's father, Dale Pearson, who was an LAPD Detective and other supporting intriguing cast that give us one heck of a good read. As we read in this series, there will be a who-dun-it as Sam represents a client who was the father of a murder victim, and working for a drug lord, a mobster who has 'something on her.'Be ready for a little bit of it all as Sam dives into a case full of 'family secrets, past betrayals, ad multiple motives for murder.' It was a sheer delight seeing how this lawyer will 'maneuver around and turn the facts to her advantage.' One thing I did notice from the series was that this lawyer loved 'Patron Silver.' Ha Ha! Also, be ready for another long read that will keep you reading for a minute. Still, if one can hang in there, you will get a good read where this lawyer, Sam, will stay within the law. Where you get some twisting and a little implausible turn, but in the end, quite a satisfying story.
    • 4/5
      When you pick up a Marcia Clark book, you know what you are getting. You get an interesting story with some likable characters, and if you are lucky, some unique plots and twists. I enjoy reading her work, it is clean, enjoyable writing - obviously written by an attorney. This latest installment in the life of private defense attorney Samantha Brinkman looks at two murders, but are they? Do appearances reflect the facts? Very interesting story here, making in an enjoyable read.
    • 3/5
      At 463 pages, Clark offers us a fairly lengthy legal thriller. Like most legal thrillers, the focus is on the resolution of the confusing puzzle rather than on a shootout or other physical battle. The best part of the novel is the relentlessness of the driving plot. It is not consumed with describing everything in poetic imagery but on Irving together the answer to a riddle by meeting again and again with witnesses and constantly brainstorming.

      In it, Clark touches on issues such as online harassment, media involvement in criminal cases, revenge porn, child sexual abuse, and human trafficking.

      It is a legal thriller without a Perry Mason courtroom scene of revealing cross-examination and the lawyer character is a bit ethically challenged. Not all of the story is realistic. And, at times, it slipped into chick-lit. But the plot moves forward aggressively enough that such issues can be forgiven in the interest of an exciting plot.

      Thank you to Thomas and Merced for providing this ARC.