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Marcia Clark

    L'écriture de Marcia Clark explore des thèmes juridiques, s'appuyant sur sa vaste expérience en tant qu'ancienne procureure adjointe de district. Son travail examine souvent les subtilités du système judiciaire et la psychologie des procédures pénales. Clark se concentre sur l'analyse des affaires, offrant aux lecteurs un aperçu du fonctionnement du monde juridique. Ses récits se distinguent par leur profondeur et leur acuité, nourris par son implication directe dans des affaires très médiatisées.

    The Competition
    Final Judgment
    Killer Ambition
    Without a Doubt
    Guilt By Degrees
    Special Suspense: Mauvaises Fréquentations
    • Intelligente, pugnace, efficace, Rachel Knight, malgr� sa jeunesse, a �t� nomm�e procureur dans une division d'�lite de Los Angeles. Apr�s le meurtre de son coll�gue et ami Jack et d'un adolescent dans un motel sordide, elle h�rite de l'affaire d�licate sur laquelle il travaillait avant sa mort: le viol d'une jeune fille de la haute soci�t�. Et si les deux affaires �taient li�es ? Rachel, qui ne peut s'emp�cher de croire que Jack a �t� victime d'un coup mont�, se retrouve prise dans une spirale de violence mena�ant d'an�antir sa carri�re et bient�t sa vie. Procureur c�l�bre aux U.S.A., Marcia Clarke connait comme personne les arcanes des pr�toires et des commissariats de Los Angeles. M�lant un sens inn� du suspense et de l'action � un humour d�capant, elle signe un premier thriller remarquable, les d�buts en fanfare d'une h�ro�ne qui lui ressemble et dont on n'a pas fini d'entendre parler: Rachel Knight. � Un d�but triomphal. Les lecteurs vont attendre avec impatience les nouvelles enqu�tes de Rachel Knight. � Publishers Weekly � L'intrigue de Marcia Clark est forte et prenante, mais ce sont ses personnages d�jant� qui font de ce premier thriller un vrai bonheur. � People

      Special Suspense: Mauvaises Fréquentations
      3,8
    • Los Angeles D.A. Rachel Knight returns in Marcia Clark's thrilling follow-up to GUILT BY ASSOCIATION.

      Guilt By Degrees
      4,6
    • Without a Doubt

      • 512pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      Without a Doubt is not just a book about a trial. It's a book about a woman. Marcia Clark takes us inside her head and her heart. Her voice is raw, incisive, disarming, unmistakable. Her story is both sweeping and deeply personal. How did she do it, day after day? What was it like, orchestrating the most controversial case of her career in the face of the media's relentless klieg lights? How did she fight her personal battles - those of a working mother balancing a crushing workload and a painful, very public divorce? When did she know that her case was lost? Who stood by her, and who abandoned her? And how did she cope with the outcome? As Clark shares the secrets of her own life, we understand for the first time why she identified so strongly with Nicole, in a way no man ever could. No one is spared in this unflinching account - least of all Clark herself, who candidly admits what she wishes she'd done differently - and, for the first time, we understand why the outcome was inevitable.

      Without a Doubt
      4,2
    • Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight teams up with Detective Bailey Keller to investigate the death of a Hollywood director that has far-reaching ramifications throughout Tinseltown in this new novel from the author of Guilt by Association and Guilt by Degrees. 50,000 first printing.

      Killer Ambition
      4,0
    • Final Judgment

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      After falling for an ambitious entrepreneur, defense attorney Samantha Brinkman is challenged to prove her lover innocent of murder when his alibi and past are thrown into question.

      Final Judgment
      3,8
    • The Competition

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Los Angeles DA Rachel Knight is brought in to the aftermath of a high-school shooting in Marcia Clark's most topical thriller yet.

      The Competition
      3,6
    • Compulsion

      • 580pages
      • 21 heures de lecture

      Judd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth, intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie is handsome, athletic, and popular, but he possesses a hidden, powerful sadistic streak and a desire to dominate. Judd is a weedy introvert, a genius who longs for a companion whom he can idolize and worship. Obsessed with Nietzsche’s idea of the superhuman, both boys decide to prove that they are above the laws of man by arbitrarily picking and murdering a Jewish boy in their neighborhood. This new edition of Meyer Levin's classic literary thriller Compulsion reintroduces the fictionalized case of Leopold and Loeb – once considered the "crime of the century" – to a new generation. This incisive psychological portrait of two young murderers seized the imagination of an era and is generally recognized as paving the way for the first non-fiction novel. Compulsion forces us to ask what drives some further into darkness, and some to seek redemption. Heartbreaking as it is gripping, Compulsion is written with a tense and penetrating force that led the Los Angeles Times to call Levin, “the most significant Jewish writer of his times.”

      Compulsion