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The Competition (A Rachel Knight Novel)
by Marcia Clark
Published: 2014-07-08
Hardcover : 416 pages
Hardcover : 416 pages
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In Marcia Clark's most electrifying thriller yet, Los Angeles District Attorney Rachel Knight investigates a horrifying high school massacre.
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 ...
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 ...
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Introduction
In Marcia Clark's most electrifying thriller yet, Los Angeles District Attorney Rachel Knight investigates a horrifying high school massacre.
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?
A dramatic leap forward in Marcia Clark's highly acclaimed Rachel Knight series, The Competition is an unforgettable story that will stay with readers long after the last page has been turned.
Excerpt
Monday, October 76:51 A.M.
Christy Shilling rolled over and squinted at her nightstand for the fifth time. Why hadn’t her alarm clock gone off? She pushed the Kleenex and can of Icy Hot spray out of the way. Still too early, but at least she could get up now. She hadn’t slept more than two hours total, and it wasn’t a good sleep. She’d had constant nightmares of waking up, going to her closet, and finding it wasn’t there. The pain was still so real Christy was afraid to look at her closet door. ... view entire excerpt...
Discussion Questions
1. Expertly and vividly, Marcia Clark takes us inside the minds of her characters. What motivated the shooters? What fantasies did they harbor? What made them so difficult to identify? Did any of the sentiments they expressed surprise you?2. What did the book teach you about what makes a person potentially dangerous? Is it a quality that's easy to identify? What could we do in our schools, and in society at large, to better handle mental illness, at-risk personalities, and threatening situations?
3. What significance does the written word hold for the killers? How does it help Rachael and Bailey come closer to solving the case?
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