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Moral Defense

a Samantha Brinkman Legal Thriller
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Dec 23, 2017gogo12127 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
For Defense attorney Samantha Brinkman, it's not about guilt – it's about making sure her clients walk. In this sequel to Marcia Clark's best selling Blood Defense, Samantha is hired as the legal advocate for Cassie Sonnenberg after a brutal stabbing left the teenager's father and brother dead, and her mother barely clinging to life. It's a tabloid-ready case that has the nation in an uproar, and Sam facing her biggest challenge yet. Why did Cassie survive? Is she hiding something? As Sam digs in to find the answers, she is surprised to find herself identifying with Cassie, becoming more and more personally entangled in the case. When Sam finally finds the reason for that kinship, however, she faces a choice she never imagined she would have to make. (Description edited from the synopsis on the back cover of this paperback edition, a synopsis presumably provided by the publisher – Thomas & Mercer.) I thought the three side plots were a distraction. They weren't necessarily uninteresting, just they distracted from the main plot, which I thought was very interesting. In fact, the main plot was so interesting that I sometimes felt like Billy Crystal in “When Harry Met Sally,” wanting to turn to the last page to find out what happens, even though I wasn't particularly happy with what did happen.