Plea of Insanity - Jilliane Hoffman

A while ago I read Retribution by Jillianne Hoffman and thoroughly enjoyed it so I stored her name in my memory banks with the intention of reading more of her work. A couple of months ago while browsing in a discount store I saw Plea Of Insanity selling for a £1. I snapped it up feeling immensely pleased with myself, took it home and immediately started to read it. That's probably the only good point about this book. The cheap price. The main character in the book is Julia Valenciano who is a prosecutor, a relatively new one so not top notch. The crime is a family murder, the wife and three children have been stabbed and the husband, David Marquette, is ...

Alerted by a telephone call from a young child in the early hours of the morning the police arrive at a family home in an affluent suburb to find an horrific scene - a mother and three children stabbed to death while the husband, a well respected local surgeon, is alive but injured. The murder enquiry soon points to the man as the chief suspect and in court David Arquette pleads not guilty by reason of insanity. Junior prosecutor Julia Valenciano finds herself offered the chance of a lifetime when chief prosecutor Rick Bellido asks her to "second seat" the case alongside him but her delight at being given the opportunity other junior prosecutors dream of soon ...