Plea of Insanity (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic) - Hardcover

Hoffman, Jilliane

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9781410417701: Plea of Insanity (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)

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ISBN 10: 1410417700 ISBN 13: 9781410417701

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2009

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The prosecutor: Julia Vacanti. Young, ambitious, and facing a case that could launch her career. The defendant: David Marquette. A successful Miami surgeon and devoted family man. The victims: Marquette's wife and three small children. The plea: Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. The perfect father and model husband, David Marquette seemingly just snapped one night. Or did he? To bring a killer to justice, Julia will have to journey into the mind of madness herself, embarking on a terrifying personal journey back into her own past.

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Jilliane Hoffman began her professional career as an assistant state attorney prosecuting felonies in Florida from 1992 to 1996, with special assignments to the Domestic Violence Unit and the Legal Extradition Unit. Through 2001, she was the regional legal adviser for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), advising more than 100 special agents on criminal and civil matters in complex investigations involving narcotics, homicide, and organized crime. The author of the novels Last Witness and Retribution, Jilliane currently lives in South Florida with her husband and two children. Karen White is a classically trained actress who has been recording and directing audiobooks for more than ten years. An Audie Award finalist and Best Audiobook of the Year 2009 winner for The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon Reed, she has earned many AudioFile Earphones Awards, including for Too Good to Be True by Erin Arvedlund and Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz. Of Karen's narration of Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick, Publishers Weekly says, "Karen White delivers a stunning reading, her character interpretations are confident and well-rounded, and she forges a strong bond with the audience."

From Publishers Weekly:

In this gripping legal thriller from Hoffman (Retribution), Julia Vacanti, a 28-year-old Miami assistant state attorney, helps to prosecute David Marquette, a Miami surgeon accused of stabbing his wife and their two older children as well as smothering their baby in Coral Gables, Fla. David's plea of insanity finds the prosecution team working double time to prove he's just a clever psychopath faking schizophrenia to avoid Florida's death penalty. Meanwhile, the conflicted Julia obsesses about her schizophrenic brother, Andrew Citro, who was convicted of the fatal stabbings of their parents when she was 13. When Julia learns Andrew was committed to a center for the criminally insane in New York, she re-establishes contact, which results in some major courtoom drama. Hoffman's intriguing plot snakes around both cases as Julia questions her own mental health and a future only a nail-biting sequel might fully answer.
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