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Guilt by Association

by Marcia Clark
Mulholland: Little, Brown. Apr. 2011. c.368p. ISBN 9780316129510. $25.99. F
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Clark is the former Los Angeles district attorney who cowrote Without a Doubt, a best-selling nonfiction account of the O.J. Simpson trial that she prosecuted. Her fiction debut introduces Rachel Knight, a prosecutor in the Special Trials section of the L.A. DA's office. Knight is shocked to discover that one of the victims in a seedy motel slaying is her colleague Jake Pahlmeyer. When the FBI treats the crime as a murder-suicide and casts Jake in the role of murderer, Rachel is compelled to investigate further. At the same time, she is assigned one of Jake's unfinished cases involving the rape of the daughter of one of the DA's most generous supporters. Both investigations have the potential to end her career and possibly her life.
VERDICT Rachel Knight is a heroine along the lines of V.I. Warshawski and Kinsey Millhone. Employing a quick and humorous writing style, not to mention surprising plot twists, Clark most likely has another best seller on her hands. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 11/15/10.]
Reviewed by Lisa O'Hara, Univ. of Manitoba Libs., Winnipeg , Feb 15, 2011
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