Nicki`s Life of Crime : BLOG TOUR, BOOK SPOTLIGHT AND EXTRACT

Book Description:

Maura was perfect. A perfect liar.

One humid summer evening, Officer Maura Walsh is led to her table at a local restaurant – it’s a trendy place with cocktails on the menu, full of office workers leaning across the bar to flirt. She’s prettier than most of the women here, but everybody gives her a wide berth. She doesn’t eat or drink anything. She doesn’t meet anyone’s eye.

An hour later, Maura is dead. Her silky red hair swirls in the dirty puddles beneath her body. The dank walls of a forgotten alley are the last thing she ever saw. It took a long time for Maura to die, alone in the dark.

Somebody made sure she would have plenty of time to think about what she’d done.

This totally twisty and absolutely gripping read will keep you turning the pages late into the night. Perfect for fans of Willow Rose, Gregg Olsen and Lisa Jackson.

PROLOGUE

On a hot summer night in New York City, a policewoman named Maura Walsh walked into a strip club. She was pretty – maybe even more attractive than the dancers the men were paying to see. But the uniform made it clear she was there on business, and everyone gave her a wide berth. She walked directly over to the bar, pocketed a wad of cash the bartender handed her and left. A short time later, the same scenario played out at a house of prostitution. It was located in a building where tenants had complained about male customers showing up at all hours of the day and night, but no one ever seemed to do anything about it. Maura Walsh went into the office of the woman who ran the business, closed the door and accepted more money. The next stop was at a restaurant. It was a trendy singles place, and lots of young people were eating and drinking and having a good time. She sat down at a table, but didn’t eat or drink anything. The manager came over, they had a brief conversation and money changed hands. An hour after that, Maura Walsh was found shot to death on the street in the Little Italy section of Manhattan. The news accounts the next day described her in glowing terms as a hero cop, a decorated five-year veteran of the force and the daughter of Deputy NYPD Commissioner Mike Walsh. There was no mention of the strip club, the house of prostitution, the restaurant or the payoffs she took. That would all come later.

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