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Plea of Insanity de Jilliane Hoffman
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Plea of Insanity (original: 2007; edição: 2007)

de Jilliane Hoffman (Autor)

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Julia Valenciano is a young, ambitious Miami prosecutor. Assigned to a hectic trial division with an ornery judge, just getting through the day can be a challenge. When Julia is asked to second chair a case that could very well make or break her career, she doesn't hesitate to jump on board. The defendant: a successful Miami surgeon. The victims: his own wife and small children. The plea: Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity.

The perfect father. The perfect husband. Dr. David Marquette seemingly just snapped one night. Or did he? His defense team claims paranoid delusions caused by schizophrenia drove him to slaughter his entire family.

But the state suspects that Marquette's insanity defense is being fabricated to disguise murders that were cold-blooded and calculated. And the evidence appears to be mounting that Marquette may be responsible for other unsolved murders around the state as well---murders that bear the frightening signature of a serial killer.

It's Julia's first murder trial and her first insanity defense, and the stakes are incredibly high. If convicted, Marquette faces the ultimate penalty---death. If found insane, he could walk free. To bring a killer to justice, Julia will have to journey into the mind of madness herself. For her, the trial of Dr. David Marquette will mean more than just disarming a legal defense; it will take her on a personal journey back into her own past---a past she has struggled for fifteen years to forget. And it will bring her face to face with a future that is so frightening, she's not sure she ever wants to see it.

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Título:Plea of Insanity
Autores:Jilliane Hoffman (Autor)
Informação:Michael Joseph (2007), Edition: BCA Edition, 608 pages
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maybe more like 2.5 ( )
  daaft | Aug 13, 2022 |
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The prosecutor--Julia Vacanti. Young and 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 own wife and three small children. The plea--Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. David Marquette seemingly just snapped. His experienced defense team claims paranoid delusions caused by schizophrenia drove him to slaughter his entire family. But the state suspects Marquette’s insanity defense is being fabricated to disguise murders that were cold blooded and calculated. To bring him to justice, Julia must embark on a terrifying personal journey back into her own past--something she has struggled to forget for fifteen years.

This story was interesting because it focused on whether or not Marquette was insane at the time he killed his family. Julia is conflicted because her brother is schizophrenic and killed her parents. There are a lot of emotional situations with Julia as she tries to determine the truth about Marquette, which she can’t help but compare to her brother. I questioned some of the decisions she made but decided it could be believable since she was examining her traumatic past. Overall, I liked it. ( )
  gaylebutz | Apr 20, 2017 |
Plea of Insanity by Jilliane Hoffman is a 2014 Thomas & Mercer publication.

This book was originally published back in 2008, and although that isn’t all that long ago, this book had a dated feel to it, for some reason.

I have enjoyed several of the thought provoking legal thrillers Ms. Hoffman has written, but this one falls way short of her usual standards.

When a man kills his entire family, he pleads insanity, which stirs up some truly horrific memories for second chair attorney, Julia Vacanti.

Nearly everyone believes the defendant is faking mental illness, but because of her own personal demons, Julia begins to wonder if maybe, just maybe, the killer is telling the truth, which of course provides her with a moral dilemma.

While this set up could have been very suspenseful, full of courtroom banter, and shed light on mental illness at the same time, it becomes a disorganized mess, instead.

The case is a mixture of notorious cases like Jeffrey MacDonald and Scott Peterson, with a Primal Fear element tossed it for good measure. But, the actual case takes a backseat to Julia’s personal issues. Julia is tense, makes lots of professional blunders, and allows her personal feelings to intrude on her career, which of course could have dire consequences. I have to say, I tried to like her, tried to relate, tried to understand her obsession, but ultimately I failed. I ended up being underwhelmed with the whole story, the characters, and the author’s long winded diatribes about mental illness, that cropped up at every turn. The courtroom drama lacked suspense, the dialogue was boring, and the little twist at the end was very anti-climatic.

This author is a capable writer, so maybe this is just a one off, which happens to nearly every author if they write often enough, so I’ll just put this one off to the side and forget it ever happened. I’m sure any future releases will measure up the level of quality I have come to expect from this author. ( )
  gpangel | Dec 18, 2015 |
Started April 10th, 2014.
Interesting take on mental illness.
Reminds me of [b:Primal Fear|187650|Primal Fear|William Diehl|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1176917927s/187650.jpg|954092], but that is better (and has been filmed).
Two interwoven stories, with a look inside a few minds, but not everything gets explained in the end and there are a few loose ends, leaving the reader to decide or guess whether the "plea of insanity" is justified or not.
This more difficult as some observations are not sure to have really happened.

The scenes in the courtroom could have been more interesting, instead the scenes where short, and consisted only of a little part of the trial.
And most of the trial was from the pov of Julia, the main character (this book is mostly about her).
If you want to take a lock at what mental illness (in this case Schizophrenia) does to people, families and also the fear to get it, - siblings and children of schizophrenics are supposedly predisposed - this is one of the books to read.

As someone who lives in a country where there is no death penalty I strongly object to it.
The controversy even in the USA is only touched, and being locked up for an undefined time in a mental institution may not always be better, only letting the supposed release as an open end and in the case of brutal and bloody murder (of 4 people) a questionable solution.
Some of the more interesting questions and plot points are open to interpretation and are not answered or explained.
This is unsatisfying and so it only gets 3 stars and no real recommendation from me. ( )
  Ingo.Lembcke | Oct 27, 2015 |
This book should have been described as psychological drama rather than mystery/suspense. This more-than-four-hundred-page book would have been less than 300 pages if all the extra wordage was removed. Much of the story takes place in the mind of the prosecutor, Julia. Sometimes entire chapters consist of her backstory and her thoughts. And the real main point of the book is a study of schizophrenia. The main plot, while engaging, has to be discovered through all the extraneous matter. Curiosity about the end is the only thing that kept me reading. And the end too, was disappointing. Recommended only for people who don't mind reading endless mindthought and backstory written in italics.
Too bad. This could have been a terrific suspense read. ( )
  MarlaAMadison | Jun 1, 2015 |
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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:

Julia Valenciano is a young, ambitious Miami prosecutor. Assigned to a hectic trial division with an ornery judge, just getting through the day can be a challenge. When Julia is asked to second chair a case that could very well make or break her career, she doesn't hesitate to jump on board. The defendant: a successful Miami surgeon. The victims: his own wife and small children. The plea: Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity.

The perfect father. The perfect husband. Dr. David Marquette seemingly just snapped one night. Or did he? His defense team claims paranoid delusions caused by schizophrenia drove him to slaughter his entire family.

But the state suspects that Marquette's insanity defense is being fabricated to disguise murders that were cold-blooded and calculated. And the evidence appears to be mounting that Marquette may be responsible for other unsolved murders around the state as well---murders that bear the frightening signature of a serial killer.

It's Julia's first murder trial and her first insanity defense, and the stakes are incredibly high. If convicted, Marquette faces the ultimate penalty---death. If found insane, he could walk free. To bring a killer to justice, Julia will have to journey into the mind of madness herself. For her, the trial of Dr. David Marquette will mean more than just disarming a legal defense; it will take her on a personal journey back into her own past---a past she has struggled for fifteen years to forget. And it will bring her face to face with a future that is so frightening, she's not sure she ever wants to see it.

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