Ready For The People: My Most Chilling Cases as a Prosecutor

"Batt is a natural storyteller, with an acute eye for the revealing detail and a talent for building suspense. The characters populating the trials are vividly described...The author's aim is to 'shine a penetrating light into the darkest corners of the criminal justice system, ' an objective well served by this fast-paced and absorbing book."

For more than 25 years Marissa Batt has tried cases in every one of Los Angeles courtrooms - cases ranging from rape and sodomy to robbery and murder. Despite her years surrounded by pain and suffering, she has never become jaded or hardened. and has retained her belief that justice will prevail. Here, she presents three of her toughest and terrifying cases. One case describes a combination of rape, attempted murder and arson, another describes a brutal same-sex rape and the third a vigilante-style murder. This truly is true crime at its best and most raw.