LOS ANGELES DA RACHEL KNIGHT is a tenacious, wisecracking, and fiercely intelligent prosecutor in the city's most elite division. When her colleague Jake is found dead at a grisly crime scene, Rachel is shaken to the core. She must take over his toughest case: the assault on a young woman from a prominent family.
But Rachel can't stop herself from also digging deeper into Jake's death, a decision that will have her risking her reputation—and her life—to find the truth.
Marcia Clark combines the vibrant voice of her heroine, Rachel Knight, with her insider's expertise in L.A. courts and criminality in a novel that marks the launch of a major new presence on the crime fiction landscape.