Snap Judgment

Samantha Brinkman, Book 3

De: Marcia Clark

Narrado por: Angela Dawe

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

When the daughter of prominent civil litigator Graham Hutchins is found with her throat slashed, the woman's spurned ex-boyfriend seems the likely suspect. But only days later, the young man dies in what appears to be a suicide. Or was it? Now authorities are faced with a possible new crime. And their person of interest is Hutchins. After all, avenging the death of his daughter is the perfect reason to kill. If he's as innocent as he claims, only one lawyer has what it takes to prove it: his friend and colleague Samantha Brinkman.

It's Sam's obligation to trust her new client. Yet the deeper she digs on his behalf, the more entangled she becomes in a thicket of family secrets, past betrayals, and multiple motives for murder. To win her case, she's prepared to bend any law and cross any boundary that stands in her way. Sam has always played by her own rules, and it's always worked...so far. But this case cuts so deep and so personal that one false move could cost her everything.

©2017 Marcia Clark (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved

Great series and narration!

This is a great series, I really enjoyed every bit of it. I like Samantha Brinkman's character a lot. She is strong, smart, and doesn't let anyone push her around.

There are a few stories going on throughout the book which I enjoyed. It is not full of filler nonsense and things are always happening. The story is well written and flows very well making it easy to follow along.

As for the narration it was very good. I like Angela Dawe a lot narrating this book. She did a great job. Reads with emotion and gives everyone their own voice.

Bring On Book 4!

This was a good ride with enough twist and turns that kept me on my heels. Once again Marcia Clark spins a tale that has surprises and yet not so surprising outcomes. Just when you think you know what's going on you find that you are only seeing a glimpse of the entire picture and when you do see the full picture you are a bit gobsmacked. I like Marcia Clark's writing style as she keeps the story moving at a steady pace and always throws in a side-line story to keep things interesting. At no time did I feel it lag or lose my interest.

Although I enjoyed this book I didn't find it as exciting as the first book, Blood Defense, but a whole lot more interesting than the second, Moral Defense. With any luck Ms. Clark will grace us with a 4th book in the series. I'm not ready to say goodbye to Samantha, her paralegal/admin/best-friend Michelle (Michee), her hacker/investigator/felon Alex, and their other notable friends. And I'm certainly interested to see where things go next between Samantha and the mob-boss Cabezon.

As for narrator Angela Dawe, she did an outstanding job. She really made me forget that it was one person doing all those voices. She created each voice just right for her characters. I totally bought her pot toking character Phil. Ms. Dawe is a very talented voice actor doing good things with this book series.

Enjoyable read

Gripping, fast moving plot, great narration & performance well-suited to the book. Didn't figure out who did what before reading it.

Keeps you guessing

If you’re considering this book but haven’t read/listened to the previous books in the series….it won’t matter. Each book stands alone and she does an excellent job of including any backstory you may need to understand the current story.

I truly enjoy her crime mysteries. The only thing that bugs me is that I want to like the main character, but there’s a part of me that doesn’t. I get that the main character is flawed, which is real and relatable. But I don’t like the fact that she’s willing to do something illegal (she’s supposed to be on the side of the law) and doesn’t blink an eye getting someone killed because she deems their creepy and thinks they deserve it. Those parts of the story make me cringe and ruin it a little bit for me.

Kept me guessing until the end

Storyline kept me guessing until the end. Great interlacing of the main storyline and a side one. Great character development as you grew to love the characters.