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Summary: Badly Writ
Review: I found little to like in "Writ of Execution" by the O'Shaughnessy sisters. Even though one of them is a highly-credentialed lawyer, the story is built on a legal premise so farfetched that it defies belief and is powered by a monumental coincidence. Mix this with trite dialogue and continuing characters who are as one-dimensional as sit-com creations and you have a recipe for a yawner.Jesse Potter's husband, Dan, a graduate student at University of Hawaii, is stricken with a mysterious recurring illness while they are kayaking off Oahu and drowns. Her powerful father-in-law, who opposed his son's marriage to a dark-skinned US Marine, believes Jesse caused Dan's death. Unable to get the police interested, he hounds her out of her apartment and out of the Marine Corps. He then files a wrongful death suit(a la O J Simpson) against her, which Jesse knows nothing about for she has fled back to the Lake Tahoe area where she was born. The reader is asked to believe that a court in Hawaii would hear such a case without any defendant or defense attorney present and then award an eight-million dollar judgement to Potter Senior without the slightest evidence of wrongdoing on Jesse's part being produced. As luck (and the plot) would have it, Jesse wins a seven-million dollar jackpot in a South Tahoe Casino. Lawyer Nina Reilly and her sidekicks ride to her assistance, but mayhem and murder ensue. The measure of how askew this story is that the reader is left with the strong impression that the most despicable character in the book is not the muderer, but Nina's nemesis, lawyer Jeff Reisner.
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Summary: One of the best in the Nina series!!
Review: I have loved this series since the beginning and I found this installment to be one of the best. It gripped me from the first page and I did not want to put it down. The whole gambling idea was pure genius in my opinion and well researched. The authors totally pulled it off and made it fly. The characters, as always, are believable and likeable. The romance between Paul and Nina is well written. Nina is my favorite female protagonist along with Gail Connor from the Barbara Parker series and I enjoyed this book immensely! It is worth hardcover price and I hope the sisters are working on another. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: most excellent one yet
Review: I have purchased and stocked in my library all of the nina reilly books and this one is by far the best. It holds together, skips the boring and mundane, great dialogue and action. would recommend it over all the rest.
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Summary: A Good Continuation
Review: I have read all of the Nina Reilly books, and this is a good one, if not quite as good as its predecessor Move to Strike. The story concerns slot-jackpot winner Jessie Potter, a young Washoe Indian and fomer Marine, who strikes a 7-mil plus jackpot at a local casino. It also includes her obsessive first-marriage father in law, her husband-of-convenience, and a casino-employed compulsive gambler. Motivations for behavior are as eccentric as the characters themselves, all of whom want something different for diverse and equally eccentric reasons. There were a few small weaknesses. Jessie, so reluctant to trust even her attorney, embraces the chance to trust her stranger-husband. That hardly makes sense. Then, although the father-in-law issues are explained, they're not demonstrated in the story... he barely escapes paper-doll status as a character. Nina's relationship with pseudoboyfriend Paul van Wagoner hardly justify her hot and cold treatment of him... of course, series regulars get it, but would a series newcomer? There are lots of minor characters, and sometimes it gets inconvenient to have to recall everyone's role in the story... I bet some combining could have simplified matters. However, authors Mary and Pamela make great strides in the area of literary cohesiveness, fitting together the components of this story with increasingly masterful ease. The character of Kenny (husband of convenience) is a terrific manifestation, and the authors' familiarity with the ins and outs of slot machines and Nevada's gaming industry are both interesting, significant, and (I'd think) illuminating! I eagerly anticipated this book, and I was quite satisfied that my wait was worth it. I'm now awaiting the next installment!
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Summary: Good, quick read
Review: I just finished this 2-day read and enjoyed it immensely. I think that the sisters put a lot into this book with the gambling industry, a quick trip to gorgeous, romantic Hawaii, a little ethnic balancing act, and then there is always the Paul-and-Nina saga. I like the computer research stuff, too. Can't think of anything that I didn't like about this book -- oh, yeah -- Reisner!
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Summary: Writ of Execution will keep u on your toes!
Review: I really enjoyed the latest installment in the series of Nina Reilly. This was a quick fast-paced read from the moment Jessie Potter wins the the biggest jackpot ever from a casino. I love Tahoe and this series takes me back there everytime. Jessie has her secrets and hires Nina to help her collect her money without exposing her true identity. Unfortunately many people don't want to see Jessie ever get her money. From a cold-blooded killer to the wormy lawyer Jeff Reisner there are many who want to keep the money out of Jessie's hands. And once again as a side-bar we wait patiently for Nina to realize what a find she has in Paul van Wagoner. Can't wait for the next installment in this very exciting and entertaining seires.
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Summary: Not as Good as I Hoped
Review: I've read everything by the sisters writing as Perri O'Shaughnessy, and this story was not as good as past works. If you like this author though, I still feel the book is a worthy read. My expectations of the storyline were a little higher than what I was presented with. It also took a little longer for this story to grab hold of me, but it finally did. I definitely enjoyed seeing the other side of the gambling industry, and was quite taken with Jesse's and Kenny's individual plights. The Nina and Paul saga, however, is becoming annoying, which you'll see when you read it.
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Summary: A chance meeting between clients
Review: Jessie Potter, a doomed young woman with a secret, and Kenny Leung, one of the more confused characters in fiction this year, leads to a casino jackpot and a need for Nina Reilly, in her seventh outing, to try to make sense of it all. Jessie defines the concept of self-sufficiency, and Kenny defines haplessness, despite his brilliance in the computer field, so their collaboration gives the book a light tone. The courtroom adversaries for Reilly are pretty ruthless, and used to a larger setting than what they find in Tahoe...it is hard to believe that Nina will prevail. Nina's independence, her relationship with her family (played down a little in this book), the spectacular scenery that is Tahoe, and the depressing world of casino gambling all play a role in this novel. Sandy, Nina's irrepressible secretary, is back, and is as feisty as ever. I'm always fascinated by the concept of sisters who live at a distance (Pamela and Mary O'Shaughnessy) writing a series together. You really can't tell where one begins and the other leaves off, such is the seamlessness of their collaboration. Reilly has been incredibly entertaining in each outing, and although there are some pitfalls in this story, overall, it keeps you enthusiastic, entertained and happy with the outcome. One issue with the series is the unresolved relationship between Reilly and Paul van Wagoner, her terrific investigator. This book continued the dance that is their life together. I'd like for O'Shaughnessy to resolve this one way or the other, and, at the end, it appears that a resolution may be under way for the next book.....but that is what you say each time you finish a Nina Reilly novel. A really entertaining and worthwhile series with a great heroine!
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Summary: Exciting legal thiller
Review: Lake Tahoe attorney Nina Reilly takes on cases that other lawyers reject, yet wins most of them. She hopes her current streak continues with client Jessie Potter, the winner of a $7 million slot machine pay out.
Jessica wants no publicity because she fears her father-in-law will find her, a person who made her life miserable. He had and still has the power to destroy her. He went after Jesse with a vengeance because he blames her for the death of his son. Due to a civil case filed in Hawaii, Jessie is expected to hand over her winnings to him, but Nina believes her client is innocent of all charges and plans to prove it.
The seventh Nina Reilly tale is the strongest novel in a powerhouse series because the attorney is at the top of her game. Readers will enjoy observing the personal life of Nina Reilly as her relationship with Paul takes a step forward only to take another step backward. A significant event surprises everyone by changing th!e status quo. WRIT OF EXECUTION is a well- written, complex legal procedural that fully entertains the audience.
Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Nina Reilly strikes again.
Review: Nina Reilly seems to have a singular talent for finding trouble, or rather, for letting trouble find her. Just when Nina is ready to take that next step on the road to getting on with her life following her husband's death, to moving on to a new life with long-time paramour Paul, trouble comes knocoking on her door in the form of a scared but tough young girl with a somewhat befuddled and entranced programmer trailing after her. The O'Shaughnessy sisters come back with another winner starring single mom Nina Reilly. In the now-familiar setting of Lake Tahoe, Nina's has a client with a unique problem: Jessie has won the lottery, but is unwilling to give her name or social security number to the media or even the casino. Once Nina starts digging into Jessie's past, it becomes clear that there Jessie was right to be concerned... and that she may have made some new enemies along the way. A good read, though some of the byplay between Paul and Nina may be getting a bit repetitive. However, I think that anyone who's read the previous Nina Reilly books will enjoy this one, and those who haven't may want to go read the back catalog prior to reading Writ of Execution, as there is some character interaction that would certainly benefit from knowing the history behind it.
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