Name: Guilt by Association
ISBN: 9780316129510

Marcia Clark

A Deputy DA specializing in high-profile cases, Rachel Knight is addicted to her work and fiercely loyal to her friends. But when her colleague Jake is found dead in a seedy Los Angeles hotel room next to the body of a teenage male prostitute, Rachel realizes she might not know those around her as well as she thinks.

Guilt by Association

Tracey O’Rourke

I enjoyed this book as a light airy crime read. It read quickly, it was moderately amusing, and it kept my attention. But it suffered from what a lot of crime reads do, too much genre and not enough character and plot development. I never cared about the narrator, the solution telegraphed itself early on, and Clark never really developed the relationships between the characters. It read sometimes like the 10th book in a series rather than the first, because she never gave the reader enough information to really care about these people.

Los Angeles D.A. Rachel Knight is a tenacious, wise-cracking, 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 of a young woman from a prominent family. But she can't stop herself from digging deeper into Jake's death, a decision that exposes a world of power and violence and will have her risking her reputation -- and her life -- to find the truth. With her tremendous expertise in the nuances of L.A. courts and crime, and with a vibrant ensemble cast of characters, Marcia Clark combines intimate detail, riotous humor, and visceral action in a debut thriller that marks the launch of a major new figure on the crime-writing scene.