Nina Reilly as a young woman in Carmel/Monterey/Pacific Grove, raising her son, Bob, who is four, attending Monterey Law School in the evening, and working as a paralegal in a law firm by day. The reader meets several characters who will appear in later stories. Nina's family situation is quite...
I read this book because I got it from Barns and Noble for my nookColor on one of the Free Book Friday downloads. I thought the synopsis was interesting enough to read the book. The storyline was a good one, kept me guessing for most of the book. The writing I found a bit amateurish. This is a 6t...
Perri O’Shaugnessy a case of lies: A Nina Reilly MysteryNina Reilly a lawyer in Tahoe takes on a cold case, about a woman who was murdered at a motel and there were no apparent witnesses.The case has about 2 weeks left before all legitimate queries about the case runs it’s course. Dave Hanna, hus...
I really loved almost all of these stories, and even the ones that weren't my favorites were still good enough to keep me reading through to the end. In most short story collections I find myself skipping a story or two that just don't "grab me" after the first few pages. I found myself not wanti...
** "Motion to Supress" (N1) is the first Nina Reilly mystery by 'Peri', sisters Pamela and Mary, O'Shaughnessy. The former graduated Harvard Law, and shows off too much 'file form this' and sit through 'procedure that' for layman me, a pro might appreciate the accuracy. I always like humor, here ...
I've always found this series to be interesting, highly detailed, suspenseful, and informative as to the regions of Lake Tahoe and Carmel. Since I've been to both places several times, it's fun to be able to actually picture some of the areas. This book was no different in those respects and I li...
A few weeks ago I read and reviewed the first O'Shaughnessy book fearing Nina Reilly, attorney, who had moved to Lake Tahoe following her divorce. In Motion to Suppress Nina and her son Bobby were living with her brother and his family as she established her new practice. I really enjoyed getting...
Good in parts.My feelings towards this book oscillated as I read it. I'm not a fan of courtroom narratives and found the beginning quite dull as we spent much of our time in the court. As things heated up, with more activity out in the real world, so did my enthusiasm. Unfortunately I was disappo...
Mediocre 8th entry in Nina Reilly series lacks suspense...Sisters Pamela and Mary O'Shaughnessy, writing as "Perri", have obviously developed a fan base with seven prior defense attorney Nina Reilly stories. Unfortunately for us, this was our first try by the women, and we seem to have been stuck...
One of the strangest ones I've read yet. Nina this time meets a girl, name unknown (for now) who wins seven million on the slots. But the problem is, that she can't claim the money because she won't give out her name. So who does she go with? A guy right beside her as her husband. The girl says s...
Invasion of Privacy (Luann Kindem, engineer)Twelve years ago, a young girl disappeared. Now a filmmaker has made a movie about it. The girl's parents call it invasion of privacy. A woman lawyer calls it murder. The bloodstains on the courtroom floor belong to attorney Nina Reilly. Months earlier ...
You know how you can turn on the TV and watch any episode of Law & Order and enjoy it regardless of whether you've seen the show before? Law & Order: SVU on the other hand requires more of an investment. One needs to know what has happened in the lives of the detectives and attorneys and how that...
Obstruction of Justice Two people have died in macabre accidents, one struck by lightning on Tahoe's highest mountain and one mowed down by a hit-and-run driver. In the middle of a controversial procedure to exhume one of the bodies, powerful businessman Quentin de Beers is killed. Charged with m...
The pantry, located on a porch beside the kitchen, showed signs of vermin infestation. Kat, continuing to feel quite hungry after the ordeals of a haunted Idyllwild night, did not care. When Ray didn’t finish his cornflakes, she finished them. The T-shirt sat in its bag on...
"THE SUPERIOR Court of the County of El Dorado is now in session, the Honorable Curtis E. Milne presiding."Nina stood up with everyone else in the bursting courtroom. Jeremy Stamp had not wanted to wait for a special setting of the hearing on Quentin de Beers’s motion, so they would have to wait ...