From Publishers Weekly
From familiar elements - four mysteriously missing young women; a filmmaker everyone loves to hate; a woman defense attorney with several suitors; the attorney's courageous but unhappy young son - sisters Pamela and Mary O'Shaughnessy have fashioned a thickly plotted and pleasantly baffling second legal thriller. Tahoe-area attorney Nina Reilly was shot at the end of Motion to Suppress (1995). As the increasingly alarming facts of her latest case pile up, she is haunted by memories of that wounding. No less haunting are certain details of her personal past, which Nina's new client, Terry London, an energetically spiteful documentary filmmaker, seems to know as much about as Nina does. Out of that past and into Tahoe comes Kurt Scott, the father of Nina's son, Bob. Almost immediately, Terry is murdered, Kurt is accused of the crime and Nina must assemble his murder defense. To complicate the mystery, Terry had just finished a film about the 12-year-old disappearance of a local teenager who may have been only one in a series of young women killed by the same hand. Did Terry know and abet the killer? As Nina ponders that question, a devastating mid-story revelation plunges her into a difficult ethical dilemma. Fans of the genre will luxuriate in this deft, multileveled tale of legal and criminal treachery, whose pleasures include elegant courtroom sleight-of-hand and the eerily wintry backdrop of Lake Tahoe. And the surprises don't end with the identity of the killer: Nina's last-page choice of a love partner will raise a few eyebrows as well.
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From Library Journal
Tahoe attorney Nina Reilly intended to stop practicing criminal law after being shot during her court case in Motion to Suppress, (LJ 5/15/95). So how does Nina become involved in a murder case after agreeing to represent filmmaker Terry London in a simple invasion of privacy suit? Shortly thereafter, Nina's former lover and the father of her son, Kurt Scott, is accused of killing Terry, his vindictive and malicious ex-wife. Nina, still healing emotionally from the shooting and struggling to hide the identity of her son's father, decides to defend Kurt while trying to protect her brother, who was at the crime scene; her son; and their privacy. The two sisters who pen this series under the O'Shaugnessy name have the skill and creativity of five. Their characters are involving, and the pace of events propels the reader through this excellent legal thriller. For most popular collections?V. Louise Saylor, Eastern Washington Univ. Lib., Cheney
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