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Summary: SEX, BLACKJACK, COURTROOM DRAMA AND LAKE TAHOE
Review: If you can guess who killed Misty Patterson's brutal husband Anthony, and left him floating naked in Lake Tahoe, you're too smart for your britches! Misty is Tahoe attorney Nina Reilly's murder client - and she's confessed! It doesn't help that Misty looks like Claudia Schiffer and can't say no to the Prize's casino owner, or the local school principal, or...And Nina's made a big legal mistake which may cost her the case, and someone's going to push her Ford Bronco off a mountain road, with the two women inside...Nina's starting to wish she'd never set foot in a courtroom...The authors thank Amazon for setting up this comment - but please, it's SUPPRESS, guys
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Summary: A Feminist Legal Thriller for both Women & Men! Spectacular!
Review: Let me start by saying that I have absolutely nothing negative to say about this book! It was fast-paced, intelligent, suspenseful and exciting, all the way to the very last page!I first became interested in this novel after reading the cover story of the August 2002 edition of BOOK PAGE about Mary and Pamela O'Shaughnessey ("Sisters in Crime: Career Crossroads turned Siblings into Co-Authors"). These two women are sisters who use the pen name "Perri O'Shaughnessey" in their wonderfully unique brand of legal thriller - one in which the main character is a female attorney. Even though the O'Shaughnessey sisters have written a number of these novels, I decided to get to know Nina Reilly from the beginning, which is MOTION TO SUPRESS. I can't remember the last time I was so drawn to a character. Nina Reilly is intelligent and strong-willed while at the same time being as human as the next person in her faults, doubts and desires - this makes her seem so real that one can't help but want to see her succeed. I can't wait to read the next novel! If you think you've had enough of the typical legal thriller, you'll be pleasantly surprised by this book. Kind of a feminine combination of Grisham, COLUMBO and QUINCY. Have fun with this one - and when you start it, give yourself long stretches of reading time. You won't want to put this one down!
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Summary: Paperback publication soon; Watch for INVASION OF PRIVACY
Review: Motion To Suppress, a legal thriller/mystery/courtroom drama, is coming out in paperback in late July 1996 in a 360,000-copy printing. The authors, Pamela and Mary O'Shaughnessy, are pleased to announce that Delacorte Books will also publish the next Nina Reilly story, also set in Lake Tahoe, this summer - watch for INVASION OF PRIVACY
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Summary: Motion to Suppress
Review: Right now I am only about three quarters of the way done with this book and I don't need to read the whole thing to tell you how it is. It is a wonderful book and I recomend it to everyone who likes to read a good, no, great suspence book. It keeps me turning the pages long into the night until my mom comes in to yell at me for being up so late!
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Summary: Motion to Suppress
Review: Sister-writing team, Pam and Mary O'Shaughnessy, team up in this first installment of the Nina Reilly series. The series must be a hit with readers and their publisher as the ninth book is set to be released later this year. In "Motion To Suppress," we are introduced to Nina as her career as a San Francisco attorney and her marriage to a fellow lawyer hit the skids. With her young son in tow, Nina packs up and heads to Lake Tahoe to visit her brother. She soon sets up shop and lands her first client -- a troubled woman seeking a restraining order from her abusive husband. When the husband is found at the bottom of Lake Tahoe and Nina's client accused of murder the fun really begins. O'Shaughnessy is (are?!) proficient at piecing together a mystery, although it does get a bit bogged down in the middle. However, this lasts only for a short time as crackling courtroom scenes with a fair share of twists and turns keep readers quickly flipping the final pages. Character-wise, I never quite warmed up to our protagonist Nina. She does not seem to be the most fun person to be around but I certainly would not mind having her as my lawyer if I ever needed one! Despite all the unsavory folks lurking about, "Motion To Suppress" certainly made me want to visit this picturesque town on the California/Nevada border. Overall, the novel is an entertaining who-done-it. It is not likely to win any writing awards, but certainly worth a recommendation for a summer-time read. I am sure I will read more of O'Shaughnessy's novels in the future.
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Summary: Introducing Nina Reilly
Review: Sister-writing team, Pam and Mary O'Shaughnessy, team up in this first installment of the Nina Reilly series. The series must be a hit with readers and their publisher as the ninth book is set to be released later this year. In "Motion To Suppress," we are introduced to Nina as her career as a San Francisco attorney and her marriage to a fellow lawyer hit the skids. With her young son in tow, Nina packs up and heads to Lake Tahoe to visit her brother. She soon sets up shop and lands her first client -- a troubled woman seeking a restraining order from her abusive husband. When the husband is found at the bottom of Lake Tahoe and Nina's client accused of murder the fun really begins. O'Shaughnessy is (are?!) proficient at piecing together a mystery, although it does get a bit bogged down in the middle. However, this lasts only for a short time as crackling courtroom scenes with a fair share of twists and turns keep readers quickly flipping the final pages. Character-wise, I never quite warmed up to our protagonist Nina. She does not seem to be the most fun person to be around but I certainly would not mind having her as my lawyer if I ever needed one! Despite all the unsavory folks lurking about, "Motion To Suppress" certainly made me want to visit this picturesque town on the California/Nevada border. Overall, the novel is an entertaining who-done-it. It is not likely to win any writing awards, but certainly worth a recommendation for a summer-time read. I am sure I will read more of O'Shaughnessy's novels in the future.
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Summary: motion to express boredom
Review: sloppy,imprecise prose. 300 painful pages to get to the trial. by then,it's hard to care.without depth or pacing.a chore to complete.
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Summary: Should have suppressed some more of the legal side
Review: THE PLOT Misty Patterson has problems: an abusive domineering husband and amnesia from her childhood. And now she has a new problem: her husband is abusive and she conks him with an Eskimo statue, hard enough seemingly to hurt but not to kill. Then she blacks out. He's found dead a few days later after having been hit a second time with the same statue and dumped in the lake. And Misty isn't even sure if she did it. Enter her lawyer, Nina Reilly, who is newly separated from her husband, newly separated from her neat legal firm, and new to the Lake Tahoe area. And a perfect introduction to the area is NOT a high-stakes murder case where everyone thinks Misty did it. Even maybe Misty. The cast of characters is long and semi-distinguished: Nina's ex-husband on the peripheries along with her brother, sister-in-law, and Nina's son; Paul, her investigator who's warm for her form; a string of Misty's lovers and their very jealous wives and girlfriends; Misty's parents; and a couple of doctors who are trying to help Misty remember her past. A good beginning for "Perry O'Shaughnessy", which is a pseudonym for two sisters: Pamela (a lawyer) and Mary O'Shaughnessy. WHAT I LIKED The Lake Tahoe community comes alive as do some of the characters -- Nina, herself; Misty; Nina's assistant. Lots of interesting facts about the area and the impact of the lake on a dead body. Well-written, all the characters are real, and adequately developed for the story. A few loose threads for the next story in the "series", if it does indeed become a series. WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE The point-of-view switches from Misty to Nina to Paul in various chapters, and the switch does not really develop Misty's or Paul's character enough to justify the switch. The solution is handled in an interesting courtroom finale that is not like Perry Mason reruns. Unfortunately, I also figured out the three key elements of the "mystery" before the end of the story. Didn't expect the ending, at least not exactly, but I did expect the person it was to be the "baddie". There are a couple of places where it is a little heavy on the "legal" side, interpreting case law, which is a likely result of one of the two authors being a lawyer. OVERALL RATING I figured it out a little early, and I still enjoyed the ride to the end. Interesting combination of story twists and straightforward story-telling. Give it a 3.0 out of 5.0, which is lowered slightly by the lack of mystery, and the problems with the point-of-view changes and concentrating at times too much on the legal side and not enough on the mystery.
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Summary: Drab story, poor editing
Review: The story of a woman lawyer starting a new life in Lake Tahoe has the potential to be interesting, but this one doesn't get there. After hanging out her shingle, the protagonist's first case at is to defend a young woman accused of murder. Again, lots of potential, but the plot has no energy, the characters are trite, and I couldn't make myself finish it. To get nit-picky, the authors make casual reference to "Temple University in New York." Sorry, but Temple is in Philadelphia. The error is irrelevant to the plot, but it blows the authors' credibility. If the story were compelling anyway, it might not matter, but in this case the characters are one-dimensional, the plot is predictable, the details are incorrect, so why bother?
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Summary: Don't plan on sleeping for two days - you'll stay up reading
Review: This book had it all - surprise twists, a heroine who goes after ideals and sticks
to them, characters you care about, and some romance. It is
a very quick-paced book not bogged down with a lot of legalese,
but enough to make it credible. I found myself rooting for
the characters to make it at different times. The ending was
great - not at all what I expected.
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