Overturned
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Overturned
AUTHOR:
Giles, Lamar, 1979-
ISBN:
9780545812504
EDITION:
First edition.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Scholastic Press, 2017.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
341 p. ; 22 cm
ABSTRACT:
Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous search for the truth.
SUBJECT_TERM:
GENRE_TERM:
SUBJECT:
| Murder -- Investigation -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Poker -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Gambling -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Casinos -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Murder -- Fiction. |
| Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. |
| Poker -- Fiction. |
| Gambling -- Fiction. |
| Casinos -- Fiction. |
| African Americans -- Fiction. |
| Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Fiction. |
| Suspense fiction. |
BIBSUMMARY:
Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous search for the truth.