What do You think about Unfit To Practice (2003)?
Pretty good whodunit, with the heroine< Nina Reilly threatened with the possible loss of her profession as an attorney due to suspicious happenings. While the book was a pretty good page-turner for me, I found myself critical of some of the later chapters that contained some "contrived" situations that called my attention to the writing, rather than the story. The ending was rough - not a smoothly flowing one and didn't deliver as well as the rest of the book. That said, I will still probably try another book by these authors.
—Marty
I really enjoy the collaborative writing effort of the O'Shaughnessy sisters (Pam & Mary) as Perri O'Shaughnessy. I have really enjoyed this Nina Reilly series. If you like John Grisham, Michael Connelly's Lincoln Lawyer series, for example, I really think you'll like this series by Perri O'Shaughnessy. Unfit to Practice was especially good; fast paced and full of suspense. Nina Reilly arrives home late one rainy night and, having lost the key to her Bronco and is using a spare key, she hurriedly locks her car and runs into her house. Once realizing she left her briefcase in the back sear of her car, she decides she'll retrieve it in the morning and goes to bed. The briefcase contains files of 3 clients, each of which contains "very" privileged info. In the morning, Nina discovers that her Bronco has been stolen along with her briefcase. Soon, elements of the privileged info in those files begins to be leaked to the wrong parties. Now, Nina's career and the lives of her clients are in jeopardy. Misconduc charges are filed against Nina by her clients. How will she get out of this one? Unfit for Practice was a very enjoyable legal suspense read. There are (I think this is right) 13 books in O'Shaughnessy's Nina Reilly series and I have 5 left to read! :)
—Debby
#8 in the Nina Reilly series.Nina Reilly series - South Lake Tahoe attorney Nina Reilly puts the lawyer in the defendant's chair. Ever since she was a little girl, Nina has believed that rules are what people use to make sense of the world and that law is a way of enforcing the rules to keep the world sane. But when her truck is stolen, along with her three most sensitive case files, her sane world turns topsy-turvy. In the wrong hands, those files could compromise a client's chance at fair visitation rights, affect a second client's insurance claim and put two girls at risk from the murderer whose crime they witnessed. Suddenly, Nina finds herself facing possible disbarment as she's brought up on disciplinary charges before the California State Bar Court. Current boyfriend Paul and ex-husband Jack try to help Nina figure out who stole the files and, more importantly, who is trying to destroy her life.
—Ed
