In the third installment of Marcia Clark’s bestselling series, attorney Samantha Brinkman’s investigation right into a family’s deadly secrets is compromised by a threat from her past.

When the daughter of prominent civil litigator Graham Hutchins is available with her throat slashed, the woman’s spurned ex-boyfriend appears the likely suspect. But only times later, the son dies in what appears to be a suicide. Or was it?

Now authorities are confronted with a feasible new crime. And their person of about Snap Judgment interest can be Hutchins. In the end, avenging the loss of life of his daughter is the ideal reason to kill. If he’s as innocent as he statements, only one attorney has what it takes to demonstrate it: his friend and colleague Samantha Brinkman. It’s Sam’s responsibility to trust her brand-new client. Yet the deeper she digs on his behalf, the more entangled she becomes in a thicket of family members secrets, past betrayals, and multiple motives for murder.

To win her case, she’s ready to bend any rules and cross any boundary that stands in her method. Sam has generally performed by her very own rules, and it’s always worked…up to now. But this case cuts so deep and so personal that one false move may cost her everything.