
Tiegan Donner, Cassie’s teacher and counselor, begs Sam to represent Cassie, who certainly needs someone in her corner, and Sam settles in to listen to the first of many stories Cassie will tell her, some of them backed up by hard evidence, others not so much. Detective Westin Emmons, of the Glendale Police, naturally takes a lively interest in Cassie Sonnenberg, the adopted 15-year-old daughter who somehow managed to survive this massacre, perhaps because she carried it out. Not content with stabbing high school senior Abel Sonnenberg to death, or maybe just surprised that a sudden case of food poisoning has sent his parents home early from their date night, someone attacks Stephen and Paula Sonnenberg as well, leaving him dead and her critically wounded. ( Source for bio: ).A murdered family leaves only one survivor in this second roller-coaster case for Los Angeles attorney Samantha Brinkman.

TNT optioned the books for a one-hour drama series and shot the pilot, which starred Julia Stiles as Rachel Knight. Final Judgment will be out on April 21, 2020.Ĭlark is also the author of four bestselling legal thrillers featuring prosecutor Rachel Knight: The Competition, Killer Ambition, Guilt by Degrees, and Guilt by Association. The third book in the series, Snap Judgment, was published in 2017. Moral Defense, the second book in the series, which was published in 2016, made the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. ABC Studios optioned the book and NBC purchased a pilot script for a one-hour drama series based on the book. In February 2016, Clark re-released the book with a new foreword.Ĭlark’s crime fiction series centering on criminal defense attorney, Samantha Brinkman, debuted in 2016 with the publication of Blood Defense, a #1 Amazon bestseller.


Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers lists.

In May of 1997 her book on the Simpson case, Without a Doubt, was published and reached #1 on the New York Times, Wall St. She spent ten years in the Special Trials Unit, where she handled a number of high profile cases, including the prosecution of stalker/murderer Robert Bardo, whose conviction for the murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer resulted in legislation that offered victims better protection from stalkers as well as increased punishment for the offenders. Marcia Clark is a bestselling author and a criminal lawyer who began her career in law as a criminal defense attorney and went on to become a prosecutor in the L.A.
