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Summary: A modern fable of the law, deceit, and death
Review: A video of a dying woman and a film about a missing girl
launch attorney Nina Reilly into a grisly murder case. She
must defend someone she thought she knew--but as his secrets
unravel she wonders what he has become. What started out as a simple invasion of privacy litigation
becomes one of the most wrenching cases of her career when
the good life she has so carefully constructed for herself
and her son explodes into murder.
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Summary: Nina Reilly Returns
Review: Having recently relocated to Lake Tahoe, lawyer Nina Reilly vowed never to work another murder trial after her first one ended in a nearly fatal shoot-out. But if you are a regular reader of the legal mystery/thriller genre you know those kinds of resolutions fall to the wayside quickly. Nevertheless, "Invasion of Privacy" starts off innocently enough as Nina returns to the courtroom -- defending a client's First Amendment right to release a documentary film about a young women who disappeared from the Tahoe shores many years ago. With the case looking to be in the bag, Nina's eccentric client suddenly turns downright nasty. What follows is a roller-coaster ride that uncovers many long-kept Tahoe family secrets and even some involving Nina herself.As in their debut Nina Reilly novel "Motion To Suppress," the O'Shaughnessy sisters excel in unfurling a highly-readable, if nearly unpredictable (and at times equally unrealistic) courtroom-based mystery. However, while we learn more about the Nina's past in this novel, I still have some issues with her development as a character in this series. I believe her as a hard-nosed and competent lawyer who can not seem to stay out of danger but find the transition to caring mother and an object of desire (to no less than three men in "Invasion"!) far less convincing. "Invasion" is not a perfect novel by any stretch of the imagination, but nevertheless it is an entertaining pool-side/wrapped-up-in-a-blanket/rainy day read.
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Summary: One of the O'Shaughnessy sisters' best.
Review: I am ashamed to say that I bought this book 6 months ago, and did not read it until now. I delayed reading because I thought it was not going to be as good as the other books by these sisters. I was completely wrong. The book was completely different than I thought--it was suspenseful with plently of plot twists to keep me reading until I was finished. I read it in 24 hours, with a little bit of caring for my family in between. The book was great in that it lets us in on so much of Nina's family and history. I am glad to know a lot more about Nina. I have read all the other books about Nina Reilly, and this book filled in a lot of gaps about her, and the plot was incredible.
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Summary: disbelief is not suspended
Review: I give this book a 2 rather than a 1 simply because I had to read it to the end to see whodunit. (But then, I never figure out whodunit.) In this pathetic sequel to "Motion to Suppress," whose weaknesses I forgave because it was a good first effort, I frequently had to slap myself on the forehead as I suffered through Perri O'Shaughnessy's ludicrous plot twists. (I could only wonder, after the flap that followed their first book in the Reilly series, "Motion to Suppress," if the Ladies--that is, the O'Shaughnessy sisters--have beome a bit drunk on success. Because I, for one, feel a bit woozy after reading this overplotted, beyond-suspension-of-disbelief novel.) The heroine, Reilly, has the brains and common sense of Aunt Pittypat of "Gone With the Wind." Even on my worst days I can avoid trouble better--and God knows I don't want my lawyer to be this dim! The supposedly earthshaking "revelations" in the book can be seen a mile away. And many of them aren't earthshaking at all. Ladies, don't let your agent, your publisher, and your banker shanghai you into writing another sequel so fast--this is sad! Get a grip!
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Summary: Nina Reilly returns!
Review: I like books that continue with the same character, and if you feel the same way, then you should read this book as well as the first one Motion to Suppress. Nina Reilly is a tough cookie and attorney in Lake Tahoe, this author(s) takes you to Tahoe as well as getting you involved with Nina and her friends and family. I highly recommend this and the other Perri Oshaughnessy books
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Summary: Couldn't finish
Review: I love good thrillers, and am willing to put up with a few flaws for the sake of a good story. But I had to stop reading this one. There were just too many situations where the characters behaved in completely implausible ways. For example: when the main character Nina's 11-year-old son goes missing, her brother tries to get her to go out to dinner. I cannot imagine that idea even crossing the mind of any actual human I have ever met. Later, while the son is still missing, Nina is attacked and her belongings destroyed by her erstwhile client. In a piece of truly extraordinary dialogue, our heroine declines to inform the police who did it and asks the client whether she did it "because of the case." (A case which Nina had just won for the client.) The client proceeds to verbally attack Nina, who backs down. What?? I am inclined to think the heroine should have been named Ninny--no one that spineless could have made it past the first two weeks of law school, or at least not the one I attended. My capacity for suspending disbelief was pushed far past the breaking point with this silly book.
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Summary: A good read
Review: I thought the characters in this were interesting, even if I have a hard time liking some of them (even the heroine). As far as the whodunit part, it's a terrific read. My only criticism would be the dialogue between people who are supposed to be attracted to one another! (kind of stilted).
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Summary: Having A Hard Time Putting These Books Down!!
Review: Invasion of Privacy continues with Nina Reilly, the lawyer who we first meet in Motion to Suppress, the first novel by Perri O'Shaughnessy. Nina is defending Terry London, a filmmaker who is being sued over a film she made about a young girl who has been missing for 12 years. Terry is a quite diffucult lady to get along with and Nina decides to persuade her to find another lawyer. Before this change happens, Terry turns up dead, shot to death in her own house. The man seen coming from Terry's house is someone very close to Nina's past, that she has not seen in years. Of course he is being held for the murder, which he says he did not do, and Nina decides to defend him, not really knowing for sure if she can believe him or not. The damaging evidence is a videotape Terry tapes as she is dying. Nina has to work hard to find the evidence to set her client free, which in the process she runs across something that could destroy her family forever. Invasion of Privacy is another hit by Perri O'Shaughnessy, which is a hard to put down page turner that had me up till the wee hours.
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Summary: Don't Buy It!
Review: It _could_ have been a great thriller. The story
was good but the writing was _really_ bad.
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Summary: Sisters, take a writing class!
Review: One of the few books I have started but couldn't force myself to finish. I enjoy a well-turned phrase, crisp metaphors, and a cohesive plot. This book had none of the above. Filled with implausible plot twists, cardboard characters, and grammatical errors, this book could pass itself off as a high school student's C effort in an English class. Dreadful prose; predictable, forced action; silly dialogue--this book has it all. I'm using it as a text for "How Not to Write a Legal Thriller." Don't waste your money
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