Book: Killer Ambition (Rachel Knight book #3) by Marcia Clark
Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review
Publication: Available now
Rating: 4 stars
Review:
The beginning was really good with District Attorney Rachel Knight and Detective Bailey Keller trying to track down both a kidnapped teenage girl Hayley (who is the daughter of a high profile movie director Russell Antonovich) and her boyfriend Brian who is believed to be the one behind kidnapping. Out of the first three books this is probably the first time you get a sense of real urgency in the story.
Rachel and Bailey up against the clock trying to locate clues to Hayley's whereabouts before the kidnapper did anything to harm her. But Rachel was having a strong possibility that Hayley was in on her abduction as a way to get back at her dad that is until she was found dead. As they searched for more clues it was starting not to add up and maybe Brian really didn't do it but they will have find him first.
By the time the story got to the trial scenes I thought some of them may have derailed the momentum this story had working for it. And the scenes with them trying to select the jury could have been left out. I know Rachel is a lawyer and it makes sense to show her in court but some of those scenes dragged down the story.
This book had fixed some of the problems I had with the other two books, with mentioning way too much food & drink and fashion. Yes, Rachel and her friends still went out to eat and she still mentioned clothes but it wasn't as excessive as with the first two books. A new character was also introduced Declan Shackner an attorney who was assigned to be Rachel second chair during the trial. He turned out to be helpful for Rachel.
Killer Ambition is a really good read and it would have been even better if some of the trial scenes were cut. There were a lot of interesting twist in this story as well as it being more suspenseful.
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