Blood Defense

Blood Defense
AuthorMarcia Clark
Audio read byTavia Gilbert
LanguageEnglish
SeriesSamantha Brinkman
GenreLegal thriller
PublisherThomas & Mercer
Publication date
May 1, 2016
Publication placeUnited States
Media type
Pages389 (first edition)
ISBN978-1-503-93619-5 (first edition, hardcover)
Followed byMoral Defense 

Blood Defense is a 2016 legal thriller by Marcia Clark, an attorney and former prosecutor. The first of a series, the novel follows criminal defense attorney and television pundit Samantha Brinkman as she takes on a high-profile murder case. It was announced in August 2016 that the first two Brinkman novels were being adapted as a TV series for NBC, to be co-written by Clark.

Background

Blood Defense draws on Clark's personal experience as a defense attorney early in her career.[1][2] She later came into the public eye as the lead prosecutor in the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial.[1][2]

From 2011 to 2014, Clark wrote a series of legal thriller novels featuring prosecutor Rachel Knight, which includes Guilt By Association, Guilt By Degrees, Killer Ambition, and The Competition.[3][4][5][6][7] Guilt By Association was adapted into a television pilot for TNT in 2014.[3][8]

While Knight is straightforward and unlikely to bend the rules, Clark called Blood Defense's lead character Samantha Brinkman "more morally ambiguous".[2] Clark said that she developed Rachel Knight from a desire to write a realistic take on a prosecutor and her friends, with women supporting each other at a time when the opposite was being celebrated with The Real Housewives. By contrast, Samantha Brinkman reflects her interest in "noir and a darker character".[9]

She said:

I also wanted to write a character who was a lot more twisted than Rachel Knight ... She really doesn't believe that the law is anything but a suggestion, which she chooses to not follow most of the time. It's a really fun character to write because she is so far out there, but she's a great lawyer—she has the loyalties she has, she has the personal issues that she has.[9]

Clark noted, "You have a lot more leeway with a defense attorney than with a prosecutor ... The prosecution has to go with the evidence and the facts and tell the story as it happened. The defense has more creative freedom. All you have to do is look for a defense that works. But it doesn't have to be the truth."[2] She also said of Samantha, "The fact that she is a defense attorney creates a lot of new possibilities for me as a writer. She's also sort of reckless and daring and she pushes things far, in terms of the lengths that she will go to to get things done."[10]

Clark said, "I particularly wanted to show what a defense attorney's job is in this age of social media, as well as the ability of a lawyer to access public opinion through Twitter and Facebook. I wanted to use all of today's tools to show what it's like to be a defense attorney in this world."[11]

Plot

Samantha Brinkman, an eager criminal defense attorney with few clients but a good reputation in the Los Angeles courts, lands the high-profile double murder case of Detective Dale Pearson. Initially attributed to a botched burglary, the murders of actress Chloe Monahan and her roommate Paige Avner are soon blamed on the veteran police officer, who had been dating Chloe and was overheard fighting with her on the night of her death. Unsure of his guilt or innocence, Samantha and her team—paralegal Michelle Fusco and hacker/investigator/felon Alex Medrano—pull out all the stops in their defense of Pearson.[1][12]

Publication

Blood Defense was released on May 1, 2016 by Thomas & Mercer.[2] While her Rachel Knight series was published by "traditional publisher" Mulholland Books, Thomas & Mercer is an imprint of Amazon Publishing.[2]

Of the change, Clark said:

I wanted better marketing. I wanted a bigger footprint in the digital market ... this is a book for you to have fun, sit on the beach and read and take you away, or read on the airplane ... those books sell best on Kindle ... Amazon is phenomenally organized, it's a powerful machine, and they really know what they're doing.[9]

Clark's contract is for two books a year,[2][9] which she calls a "tough" pace as a writer but also "a brilliant marketing choice".[9] She explained:

People are used to streaming and binge-watching. When they see an author they like, if there's only one book, even if they like the book, they're going to forget about you. The way to keep you in their mind and to get you to become a habit for these readers is you have to have a lot of product out there for them to read. They keep reading and coming back. A lot of readers of mystery thrillers in particular are fast readers. They shoot through that stuff quick.[9]

Reception

Calling Clark's new series "promising", Publishers Weekly wrote that "Clark sprinkles jaw-dropping surprises throughout and impressively pulls off a shocker that lesser writers can only envy."[12] Shawna Seed of The Dallas Morning News described the "ethically flexible" Samantha as believably flawed, praising the novel's ending and Clark's portrayal of "the symbiotic relationship between the L.A. criminal justice system and the media".[13] Jonathan Elderfield wrote for Associated Press that Clark "has the most fun when she's showing readers the world of celebrity trials, from the media circus, the courthouse crowds, the crazies and the police to the inner workings of the trial itself".[14]

Television adaptation

In April 2016, Mandeville TV approached Clark about producing Blood Defense as a legal procedural TV series, and the project was acquired by ABC Studios "in a competitive situation".[1] Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain from the ABC/Mandeville production The Family were brought in to co-write the adaptation with Clark.[1][3] NBC signed a put pilot commitment for the Blood Defense series in August 2016.[1][3]

Sequels

A sequel, Moral Defense, was released on November 8, 2016.[15][16] Clark began developing it in September 2015,[9] and the novel was already written when Blood Defense was released in May 2016.[2] In Moral Defense, Samantha defends a 15-year-old girl accused of brutally murdering her adoptive family.[15][16] Clark said that though Samantha is dealing with a new crime, "the issues that are hatched in Blood Defense are definitely going to come back to haunt her".[17]

The third Samantha Brinkman novel, Snap Judgment, was published on August 29, 2017.[18] The novel finds Samantha defending another attorney who may or may not be involved in the death of his murdered daughter's boyfriend.[18]

A fourth novel, Final Judgment, was released on April 21, 2020.[19] It follows Samantha as her boyfriend, Niko Ferrell, becomes the prime suspect in a murder.[19][20]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Andreeva, Nellie (August 26, 2016). "Legal Drama From Marcia Clark & Mandeville TV Lands At NBC As Put Pilot". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Tuttle, Kate (April 5, 2016). "Marcia Clark on how her new book is different than the old Marcia, Marcia, Marcia". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d Sandberg, Bryn Elise (August 26, 2016). "Marcia Clark Legal Drama Scores NBC Put Pilot Commitment". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  4. ^ "Guilt By Association by Marcia Clark". Kirkus Reviews. April 5, 2011. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  5. ^ "Guilt By Degrees by Marcia Clark". Kirkus Reviews. May 7, 2012. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  6. ^ "Killer Ambition by Marcia Clark". Kirkus Reviews. June 17, 2013. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  7. ^ "The Competition by Marcia Clark". Kirkus Reviews. June 16, 2014. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  8. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (March 4, 2014). "Julia Stiles To Topline TNT Drama Pilot Guilt By Association". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g Fernandez, Maria Elena (April 29, 2016). "Marcia Clark on Her New Novel, Blood Defense, and Why She Doesn't Miss Being in Court Anymore". Vulture.com. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  10. ^ Epting, Chris (May 17, 2016). "Author Marcia Clark Goes On the Defense". The Huffington Post.
  11. ^ Tang, Estelle (May 3, 2016). "Marcia Clark Didn't Want to Have Anything to Do With the OJ TV Series". Elle. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  12. ^ a b "Fiction Book Review: Blood Defense by Marcia Clark". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  13. ^ Seed, Shawna (May 27, 2016). "Battle of the legal thrillers: The Defense by Steve Cavanagh and Blood Defense by Marcia Clark". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  14. ^ Elderfield, Jonathan (May 9, 2016). "Book Review: Marcia Clark delivers in Blood Defense". Salon. Associated Press. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  15. ^ a b "Moral Defense by Marcia Clark". Kirkus Reviews. August 22, 2016. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  16. ^ a b "Fiction Book Review: Moral Defense by Marcia Clark". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  17. ^ Martindale, David (April 27, 2016). "Author Q&A: Marcia Clark on Blood Defense". The Star-Telegram. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  18. ^ a b "Snap Judgment by Marcia Clark". Kirkus Reviews. June 6, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
  19. ^ a b "Final Judgment by Marcia Clark". Kirkus Reviews. January 27, 2020. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
  20. ^ "Final Judgment: A Samantha Brinkman Legal Thriller". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 23, 2020.

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