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Summary: Obstruction to success
Review: I was looking forward to reading this book and the other ones from the same author, but unfortunately, I found it difficult to stick to the book, and found it a shame to have all those useless sexual descriptions that had nothing to do with the case. I am a collector of murder cases and thriller books so it really is rare for me to criticize one of those books but this one didn't catch my attention enough. What misses is some kind of magical touch that some other authors have such as Higgins clark, kelman, rendell (this of course is only my opinion).
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Summary: Very, very dissapointing
Review: I'm a big fan of legal thrillers, and currently attending law school. John Grisham is one of my favorite authors, but since I've exhausted all his written material, I thought I should try something else. I picked this one up from my mother-in-law, who mentioned she got through it in a couple of days, and it was a quick read. I was extremely disappointed. The plot was weak, and the writing style almost unbearable! I found myself editing the book constantly, and that took away from my enjoyment of the novel. I also got through it in a couple of days, hoping ferverently it would get better. It didn't. Too bad there is no rating lower than 1 star. That's what this book really deserves.
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Summary: not the best in the series
Review: I've read most of the Nina Reilly series, and this one is my least favorite. It took a while for things to really get rolling, and there were a few too many coincidences for the plot to be believable.
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Summary: We are very excited about this book!
Review: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE is a legal thriller about love, lightning, martinis, graverobbing, mountains, and murder. Nina Reilly, Lake Tahoe lawyer, is climbing Mt. Tallac with the man she thinks she loves when a terrifying event occurs, launching her into another murder case. Paul van Wagoner, Carmel private investigator, is looking into a hit-and-run case and finding a woman who has something new to teach him about the art of love. When an isolated cabin catches on fire, Nina makes a dangerous move which will come back to haunt her. What's wrong with the D.A., and why is her young client insisting he's innocent but acting guilty? Why do both Paul and Nina feel that even the gods have a stake in the outcome and are manipulating them? If the final chapters don't surprise you, we'll eat our hiking boots
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Summary: A Stretch Of An Ending
Review: Obstruction of Justice is the third book in this series by Perry O'shaughnessy. In this book, Nina Reilly and DA Collier Hallowell go on a date hiking. First of all the date was a little weird, considering in the last book Nina and Paul had something going on. Anyway, while on their hike they witness Ray de Beer's death from a lighting crash. The death brings back old memories for Collier of his deceased wife Anna, who was killed in a hit and run accident. Collier hires Paul to try and find clues from Anna's death. In the meantime, Ray de Beer's son, Jason is indicted for murder, and Nina is defending him. As Paul and Nina find out, Anna Hallowell's and Ray de Beer's death are more related that one might think. Obstruction of Justice fits right in with the previous two books in this series, as all are hard to put down, and are great reads. In this book, the only problem I had was that the ending was a stretch and quite unbelievable. Other than that, Obstruction of Justice, is another winner from the O'Shaughnessy's.
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Summary: Keeps you Guessing!!
Review: Once again Perry O'Shaughnessy DID NOT disappoint Nina Reilly fans!!!! What a great book, great characters, great story-line! Please keep Nina Reilly stories coming .... they are the best!
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Summary: Another Good One
Review: Once again, Nina Reilly stars in a highly enjoyable story, perhaps the best yet. But these books are not entirely plot-centered; Nina's personal life (foibles and all) captures the reader's (at least, this reader's) interest and sympathy, too. I would rate Nina as more interesting than Judith A. Jance's J. P. Beaumont, but less interesting than her Joanna Brady, Tony Hillerman's Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, or William Bernhardt's Ben Kincaid and Christina McCall. Also, Lake Tahoe is a good choice of venue, interesting in itself.With Nina, and the other above-mentioned characters, it adds something to the series to get to know them in a way we never got to know Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, or Ellery Queen.
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Summary: Another Good One
Review: Once again, Nina Reilly stars in a highly enjoyable story, perhaps the best yet. But these books are not entirely plot-centered; Nina's personal life (foibles and all) captures the reader's (at least, this reader's) interest and sympathy, too. I would rate Nina as more interesting than Judith A. Jance's J. P. Beaumont, but less interesting than her Joanna Brady, Tony Hillerman's Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, or William Bernhardt's Ben Kincaid and Christina McCall. Also, Lake Tahoe is a good choice of venue, interesting in itself. With Nina, and the other above-mentioned characters, it adds something to the series to get to know them in a way we never got to know Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, or Ellery Queen.
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Summary: Nina Reilly Is a Treasure!
Review: Since this is the first Nina Reilly book I picked up, I have absolutely no complaints. I literally stumbled upon this book on a friend's bookcase, casually opened it up, and almost literally didn't put it down again until I had read the very last page. My only question is: Where have I been? Why had I not heard of this wonderful series, and its equally wonderful authors, sisters Mary and Pamela ("Perri") O'Shaugnessy? If this is, as some of the reviewers say, the "weakest" in the series, will I survive the strongest? The story takes place in scenic Lake Tahoe, where sleazy casinos vie with gorgeous mountains and stately pines for attention. The night are dark and starry, and the days...well it depends who you are. For struggling attorney Nina Reilly, who is living with her brother and sister-in-law when the book begins, the days are full of crime and conspiracy. So she decides to hike a nearby mountain with a man who interests her: deputy DA Collier Hallowell. Collier is still mourning his wife, killed a few years earlier by a hit-and-run driver who was never found. Nina has some vague idea of bringing him into the world of the living. But before that can happen, the two encounter a family that puts the word "dysfunctional" to shame. It consists of blustering Ray DeBeers, given to abusive language, his fearful wife Sarah, his gorgeous twins Jason and Molly, and a family friend. A storm comes up, Ray is hit by lightening and killed--and the action begins, not to stop until the very last word of the very last sentence. Was Ray's death really an accident? Is his death somehow connected with the death of Hallowell's wife? And what of the mysterious, ethereal artist Kim Voss, she of the indoor cactus garden? Add in a genuine grave-robbing, a mysterious gardeners, stolen cars, people who won't talk, people who talk too much, and a brilliant teen who may or may not be connected to the DeBeers family, and the action is fast and furious. Nina, her sidekick and sometime lover, PI Paul van Wagoner, Hallowell himself, Nina's Native American secretary and a host of lesser characters try to solve a mystery that simply compounds upon itself like a cancerous cell. In the end, nobody is untouched or unhurt by the actions that unwind at dizzying speed. I loved this book so much, I purchased everything else in the series I could get my hands on. Now my problem is: Do I go back to the beginning, and patiently catch up? Or do I read the next book in the series (whose teaser appears at the end of the paperback version), "Breach of Promise"? Stay tuned. This is one reviewer who is totally, happily, hooked.
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Summary: Great
Review: T'ain't nobody can write like an Irishman, and O'Shaughnessy proves that in OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, a page-turner (hope my own novel THE SHAPE is as good). Wonderful summer-time read.
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