vorite. I always tell people, it's my fa- vorite band, and my second was the Beatles. Nancy, I first became aware of you and became a fan of yours on your Nancy Grace Show on CNN. We watched you, it seemed like almost every night, my wife and I, who has since passed away. She and I were big Nancy fans. I know you are a huge ad- vocate of victims’ rights. What case in the past, say 20 years, do you feel had the most unjust outcome for the vic- tim(s)? I would say obviously the most high profile unjust case would have been the OJ Simpson case and followed closely on the heels of the “Tot Mom” Casey Anthony.
Oh yeah. I fully agree. Let’s talk about your writing. I really enjoyed book The Eleventh Victim. Was that your first one? Well, that's the first one I started writing. I moved to New York and I was very lonely for the courtroom. I really missed it, and I knew nobody. I started writing The Eleventh Vic- tim. but in the meantime, I was approached by Hyperion Publishers and they wanted to do a non-fiction book, so I dropped The Eleventh VictimI put it away and I wrote Ob- jection, which was my first book which amaz- ingly hit the New York Times Best Seller list. After that, we had another meeting with Hy- perion and they said, “what are you thinking about writing next?” I threw them a few ideas and they said, “Eh, got any other ideas?” I said, well, I've been working on a murder mystery, and they went, "send it over," so I sent it over and they said, “How fast can you do it, and can do you a second book of Hailey Dean?” I said, "I'm on it," and that is the story behind The Eleventh Victimand Death on the D-List.
I enjoyed those, and I enjoyed Objec- tion! a lot too. When I first met you,
that is the book that I bought, down there at the Mercer Authors Luncheon and asked you to autograph three years ago. I remember that.
Then I went back and got all the of Hai- ley Dean books. I wanted to ask you, how much of Nancy Grace is in the character of Hailey Dean? That's really funny, people ask me that all the time and I guess she is my alter ego, because it's based on things that I saw and heard. Not any one particular person that I knew or pros- ecuted, but it's an amalgamation and it's a composite of a lot of things that have hap- pened that I have seen, plus my imagination, so yeah. I mean, it is a woman, a short blonde woman who prosecutes in inner city Atlanta after the murder of her fiancee,' and whereas I left my degree in Shakespeare and Literature, she left Psychology and the study of psychology, to which she returned, and I left prosecution to go into Journalism. So I guess there's also that parallel.
Yeah. She is a much better person than I could ever
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