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Peter S Berman became a Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney in 1973. A trial attorney for ten years, he was then promoted to the position of Head Deputy District Attorney, a senior supervisory role. At various times during his career, he oversaw the daily operations of a series of county courthouses, as well as a number of specialized divisions, including the Hardcore Gang Division, the Sex Crimes Division, the Major Frauds Division, and the Career Criminal Division. He retired from the Office of the District Attorney in 2002.
During his career as a district Attorney, he lectured and trained prosecutors throughout the United States for the the National Prosecutors College and the California Department of Justice. He also worked as a technical advisor on an NBC movie of the week which was based upon one of his sexual assault cases.
His work as the head of the Hardcore Gang Division was profiled on a number of television shows, including CBS’s Sixty Minutes.
He continues to devote some of his time to law enforcement as a Specialist Volunteer with LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division, Cold Case Specials Unit, where he actively investigates unsolved homicide cases. He has been honored by the LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division as their 2008 Reserve Officer of the Year.
Mr. Berman is an avid world traveler, a devoted LA Kings hockey fan, and he currently resides with his family in Southern California.
Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite
Hidden Agenda (Tales from the Robbery-Homicide Division Book 1) is a police procedural written by Peter S. Berman. Jeremy Hart is a criminal prosecutor in the District Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. He’s been seeing Dr. Shari Bauer, a grief counselor, since his wife died in a car crash. It’s been over a year, and Dr. Bauer thinks it’s time Jeremy gets back into the world of the living. She gives him a ticket to a lavish charity event and challenges him to meet and chat with two women while he’s there. Against his better judgment, he goes to the event and finds himself, as he expected, adrift and eager to leave again. Then he meets her, a stunning woman named Claire, who seems to make it all so easy and effortless. They dance, and he starts to feel alive again, until she tells him that she’s married.
Peter S. Berman’s mystery novel, Hidden Agenda (Tales from the Robbery-Homicide Division Book 1) combines an engrossing police procedural with an intense and exciting legal thriller. Berman peoples his book with real life characters who get the reader deeply involved in the story. The courtroom scenes are fabulous and made me recall reading the old Perry Mason novels and watching the TV series -- only better. I’m a big fan of police procedurals and loved following Ulysses Gibson and Jennifer Donahue as they investigate the murder of Claire’s abusive and controlling husband. Berman’s background in law and law enforcement comes through in this very entertaining and authentic legal thriller. I thoroughly enjoyed Hidden Agenda and highly recommend it.
