Why did you decide to leave Rachel Knight, the prosecutor protagonist of the Guilt by Association series, and start new with a defense attorney, especially with one that plays fast and loose? She spoke to Vulture about her writing process, why she decided to try digital publishing for Blood Defense, and why she doesn’t miss being in court anymore. In addition to writing, Clark is also doing court-appointed appellate defense work these days. In Blood Defense, out May 1, Clark switches gears with a new central character, Samantha Brinkman, a hard-driving criminal defense attorney who lands a high-profile double-murder case. In 1998, the famous Simpson prosecutor co-authored a book about the Simpson case, Without a Doubt, with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Teresa Carpenter, but she made her debut as a mystery novelist just five years ago, with Guilt by Association, which inspired a series of four novels and two short stories. It’s what we call in writing an Easter egg. “I can’t resist that,” says Clark, enjoying a Cobb salad at a restaurant in Calabasas, California. A murder suspect is told someone is dead and his response is not to ask what happened but rather, “Who killed her?” There’s a moment in Marcia Clark’s new novel, Blood Defense, ripped right from the O.J.
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