The Trials of Nikki Hill

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"in fifteen years as a senior prosecutor Christopher Darden has seen it all. THE TRIALS OF NIKKI HILL quickly becomes a fascinating journey. I've been in those corridors, those courts, those meetings, and those dramas—and Darden makes them real. I loved reading this book."
—Gavin de Becker, author of The Gift of Fear
"The plot has all the twists and turns that you'd expect in a legal thriller from an author who's worked in the thick of the Los Angeles criminal justice system. What's pleasantly surprising is Nikki Hill: a likable and believable female lead character. Don't be surprised if you end up rooting for her."
—Connie Briscoe, author of Bis Girls Don't Cry

$25.00 FPT ($30.00 in Canada)
Out-of-control cops. High-priced defense attorneys. IVIissing evidence. Lying suspects. A system tliat sometimes works— and sometimes doesn't. In fifteen years as deputy district attorney in Los Angeles, Christoplier Darden has seen it all—... Tovább

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tilE tniALS OF NIKKi
"in fifteen years as a senior prosecutor Christopher Darden has seen it all. THE TRIALS OF NIKKI HILL quickly becomes a fascinating journey. I've been in those corridors, those courts, those meetings, and those dramas—and Darden makes them real. I loved reading this book."
—Gavin de Becker, author of The Gift of Fear
"The plot has all the twists and turns that you'd expect in a legal thriller from an author who's worked in the thick of the Los Angeles criminal justice system. What's pleasantly surprising is Nikki Hill: a likable and believable female lead character. Don't be surprised if you end up rooting for her."
—Connie Briscoe, author of Bis Girls Don't Cry

$25.00 FPT ($30.00 in Canada)
Out-of-control cops. High-priced defense attorneys. IVIissing evidence. Lying suspects. A system tliat sometimes works— and sometimes doesn't. In fifteen years as deputy district attorney in Los Angeles, Christoplier Darden has seen it all— including the inner workings of the 0. J. Simpson murder trial. Now he brings his vision, experience, and a dead-on ear for street-smart dialogue to a novel that is far more than a legal thriller. THE TRIALS OF NIKKI HILL is a tour de force, a riveting tale of murder, and a wild ride through the Los Angeles criminal justice system.
Your guide is Nicolette Hill, a beautiful and ambitious young black prosecutor on her way up in the district attorney's office and a heroine for the new millennium. Nikki has a career but not a life, an expensive house but no dining room table, and a serious lack of romance. On top of this, Nikki has just been handed the high-profile case of her career: the body of Maddie Gray, host of TV's most popular tabloid news show, has been found in a Dumpster in South Central gangland.
The police immediately have a suspect in Jamal Deschamps, a young black man arrested at the scene with Maddie's ring in his pocket. Then the airtight case against him springs some big-time leaks-sending Nikki and a quirky team of homicide detectives scrambling to find the real killer, while an army of attorneys, spin doctors, crooked cops, and case-hardened gangstas starts working overtime to make the wheels of justice spin just the way they
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want. When Nikki finally gets a suspect whose guilt she can believe in—this time it's a famous African-American R&B diva— the case may alrea(jy be (joomed.
From South Central homeboys in baggy pants to courthouse hitters in three-piece suits, THE TRIALS OF NIKKI HILL captures men and women in the often chaotic pursuit of a thing called justice—and one particular woman courageously fighting her way through the system, with her career, her pride, and her life hanging in the balance.
Christopher Darden was a key prosecutor in the 0. J. Simpson criminal trial. He is the bestselling author of In Contempt.
Dick Lochte is an acclaimed mystery writer and screenwriter. His first novel, Sleeping Dog, was nominated for an Edgar Award.
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