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A riveting debut thriller by Andrea J. Johnson, and the first in the VICTORIA JUSTICE series. Twenty-five year old Victoria Justice has never really gotten over a near drowning at the hands of a high school bully, but has attempted to build her confidence and career as a court stenographer under the mentorship of The Honorable Frederica Scott Wannamaker, the county's first African-American Superior Court judge. But when her old nemesis appears on the court docket, Victoria's carefully crafted world implodes -- evidence goes missing, a potential mistrial abounds, and the judge winds up drowned in the courthouse bathroom. Victoria realizes her transcript of the proceedings unlocks everyone's secrets...including the murderer's. Plagued with guilt for failing to protect her mentor, Victoria teams up with Ashton North, the handsome state trooper accused of mishandling trial evidence, and starts to untangle the conspiracy surrounding the case.



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Andrea J. Johnson

Andrea J. Johnson is the author of the Victoria Justice mystery series about a trial stenographer turned amateur sleuth (think meets ) . She's also written several guidebooks for writer productivity, including and . She holds a B.A. in English from Swarthmore College, an M.F.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, and a copyediting certification from UC San Diego. She currently teaches Creative Writing and African American literature at the university level, and her craft essays have appeared on several websites such as , and . She has also contributed to the women's lifestyle websites and . Visit Andrea's blog at ajthenovelist. com to learn more.



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