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L.A. Justice
Darden, Christopher A.
2001 45334 "Murder has been committed in Hancock Park, last bastion of old-money Los Angeles. A wealthy woman has been shot dead on the ground floor of a mansion. The only other adult in the house is her inebriated lover, the dissolute younger son of one of the city's top financiers, the eccentric Rudolph Bingham. Also in the house is the woman's son, Adam, a 10-year-old computer game genius, who had been asleep at the time of the killing. Now, Virgil Sykes, homicide detective and Assistant D.A. Nikki Hill's lover, is handed the call. As the case takes on deeper dimension and the forces of big money call in legal experts, Nikki becomes involved in the complex prosecution of the younger Bingham..and explores her maternal side as she begins to bond with young Adam." DIMENSIONS: 6 x 9 Chicago Tribune - Dick Adler This second book about black female prosecutor Nikki Hill is even better than its predecessor, relying less on author Christopher Darden's fame as an O.J. Simpson nemesis and more on his bleak insider's vision of the ways the Los Angeles criminal-justice system resembles a pack of wild dogs fighting over a bone. Combine this with co-author Dick Lochte's trademark ability to bring a gallery of characters to instant life-even such genre staples as the soft son of a hard, rich man-with a few deft touches and you have an exciting, topical legal thriller that also includes a couple of touching love stories. Publishers Weekly While he may have struggled very publicly in court, Darden--assistant prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case turned crime author--has now delivered two high-octane legal thrillers in The Trials of Nikki Hill and this lively new sequel. L.A. prosecutor Nikki is working on the shooting death of artist Shelli Dietz. Shelli is, or was, the lover of wealthy wastrel Randy Bingham and the mother of Adam Noyes, a precocious 10-year-old computer whiz. Randy was passed out at the time of the murder, while young Adam was hiding upstairs. On the case for the LAPD is Virgil Sykes, Nikki's lover and reluctant partner to Dan McNeil, a career burnout and woman hater. Darden and his coauthor, veteran crime author Lochte, crosscut this slick if jumpy narrative with the taped ramblings of Patience, a dead hooker, who worked for upscale pimps Pickett and Ricky at the same time she was involved with a cop. This side plot proves distracting; moreover, characters tend to get stranded for long stretches. After Virgil is shot, he wanders into a medicated limbo, and McNeil, who grows more soiled by the page, also takes a powder. Accepting the solution to Shelli's death, as well as the identity of the Patience's murderer, requires some generosity on the part of the reader, but this novel is just the kind of frenzied page-turner many authors aspire to and few deliver. Darden's legal smarts and Lochte's sure prose touch work well in tandem. Agent, Mel Berger. (Jan.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information. Kirkus Reviews With Lochte (The Neon Smile, 1995, etc.) once more serving as copilot, O.J. prosecutor turned so-so novelist Darden (The Trials of Nikki Hill, 1999) does better in his second fictional effort. Inevitably, it's a courtroom drama again starring the feisty female African-American deputy D.A. for whom life is ever a bumpy path. This time out, though, Nikki Hill's major case seems a no-brainer. Sure, the defendant is rich and powerfully connected, but it would take a far less adept prosecutor than Hill to miss nailing him-the evidence is that compelling. When Shelli Dietz is discovered shot to death, Randy Bingham III, her lover, leaps way out in front as the prime suspect. He'd just quarreled with her, Dietz's ten-year-old son informs the police, and shortly thereafter the cops find tell-tale bloodstains (Shelli's) on trousers Randy has attempted to hide. Without working up a sweat, Nikki gets her conviction and a chance to thumb her nose at archrival deputy DA Dana Lowery, who both hates Nikki and secretly year Grand Central Publishing 0446523275 / 9780446523271
Hardcover As New Condition New York
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