Snap Judgment

In the third installment of Marcia Clarks bestselling series, attorney Samantha Brinkmans investigation into a familys 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 womans 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 hes as innocent as he claims, only one lawyer has what it takes to prove it: his friend and colleague Samantha Brinkman. Its Sams 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, shes prepared to bend any law and cross any boundary that stands in her way. Sam has always played by her own rules, and its always workedso far. But this case cuts so deep and so personal that one false move could cost her everything.