The Competition

Book Four in the Rachel Knight Series

"[Clark's] fourth legal
thriller featuring Knight is
another tour de force."
—Booklist, starred review

A Columbine-style shooting at a high school in the San Fernando Valley has left a community shaken to its core. Two students are identified as the killers. Both are dead, believed to have committed a mutual suicide.

In the aftermath of the shooting, LA Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight teams up with her best girlfriend, LAPD detective Bailey Keller. As Rachel and Bailey interview students at the high school, they realize that the facts don't add up. Could it be that the students suspected of being the shooters are actually victims? And if so, does that mean that the real killers are still on the loose?

Mulholland Books, Hardcover (July 2014), ISBN: 9780316220972

Praise

"Clark handles sometimes painfully raw scenes with great sensitivity and skillfully works in material about what makes a mass murderer, as she ratchets up suspense to a deadly conclusion. Her fourth legal thriller featuring Knight is another tour de force." starred review
—Booklist

"The twisty plot and dynamic duo make for a suspenseful, if sobering, page-turner."
—Publishers Weekly