Noel A. Obiora was born and raised in Nigeria and came to the United States at age 17. He graduated from Southern Connecticut State University and the law school at the University of Texas, Austin. After practicing law in Los Angeles in the 1990s, he studied at King’s College, London, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, where he received an M.A. in Text and Performance Studies. He was a visiting lecturer/professor at City College New York in 1998 and at the University of Ibadan, Center for Petroleum Energy Economics and Law, Nigeria in 2016. He now lives in Northern California with his family, and since 2003 has worked as an attorney for the California Public Utilities Commission with responsibilities that include wildfire mitigation and management. He is an avid soccer fan and documentary film enthusiast. A PAST THAT BREATHES is his first book.

Books by Noel A. Obiora

A Past That Breathes

by Noel A. Obiora - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

In January 1995, a promising young musician was found murdered in her apartment in West Los Angeles. There were no eyewitnesses to the crime, but someone saw her arguing with her ex-boyfriend, an African American man, the day before she was found dead. With the city in the throes of the O.J. Simpson trial at the time, the LAPD was not about to let another African American skip town after killing a white woman. They arrested the ex-boyfriend on circumstantial evidence but ignored other evidence found at the scene of the crime that did not support their case. This collection of evidence, and the LAPD's questionable tactics, did not sit well with the younger of two deputy district attorneys assigned to the case.