Motion to Suppress

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Summary: As powerful a first submission as Grisham's A Time to Kill
Review: This book was not written with the typical lawyer garbage that many books of this genre contain. You don't need to be a lawyer to read this book, even though the legal information provided was accurate and well thought out. It was easy to read and intriguing. The personal dramas combined with the court room drama made this a book combatible with other fictional genre. Nina Reilly is a great heroine and I look forward to reading Perri's other works.

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Summary: Motion to Supress...Publication
Review: This has got to be one of the worst written books I have read in quite a while. The characters are one dimensional and paper thin to boot. The plot is so full of cliches, that I doubt it would get a passing grade in a high school creative writing class. If this is all it takes to get a publishing deal these days, I may take a crack at it myself. I couldn't hope to do any worse.

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Summary: You'll love Nina!!
Review: This is a great read and the beginning of a great series. Nina is easy to love and her life is quite interesting. If you like the Barbara Parker's Gail Connor series you'll like these books. This book is just a bit slower than some of the later ones. They continue to get better in my opinion. However, it lays the foundation for the others in the aspect of understanding Nina and again, these books should be read in order to get the full effect. Good mystery and suspense.

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Summary: A clever and witty dialogue with gripping courtroom drama.
Review: While visiting her brother in Tahoe, Nina, newly separated from her husband, decides on the spur of the moment to open a law practice right there. A Native-American women convinces Nina to hire her as a legal secretary even though she is not qualified and got a bad recommendation from her present boss. Nina's first big case comes immediately when an abused wife is arrested for killing her husband with a statue of a polar bear and dumping him in the Lake. Misty, the suspect, has admitted hitting her husband but has no memory of anything after that. She also has no memory of her childhood; when asked, her father becomes hostile and refuses to answer. Nina hires an old friend and ex-cop, Paul, to investigate Misty's past. Misty's hypnotist/therapist may be running a scam, and his nurse/wife threatens Nina within an inch of her life. Did Misty actually kill her husband and forget? Did the "therapist" program her? Is Paul the marrying kind? Motion to Suppress is the Lake Tahoe/law version of the great hit TV show Northern Exposure. You'll want to race home from work to read it!

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Summary: A terrific read!
Review: William Bernhardt, William Diehl,William Lashner, John Lescroart, Steve Martini,Barbara Parker,Richard Patterson, Stockly Grif and Robert Tanenbaum who also write legal thrillers now have some more competition. The two authors of this novel have interesting characters, intricate plotting and excellent dialogue. I'm hooked. I am now ordering their other works and looking foward to their next new one.