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Invasion of Privacy

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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.

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

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.

This was the first book by these authors. They left me wondering until the very end who the guilty person was. Also, it is interesting to have a personal touch added regarding the past life of Nina. Adding this to the story gives it a more believable plot. I have ordered and read the following three novels and am soon to order their last one just released. The thread is carried into the novels following this which makes it so much more easy to know about the characters. These authors are great and I hope we see more of Nina Reilly.

Second in the series of heroine Nina Reilly as a reluctant criminal justice attorney. Fast paced, yet with sufficient background of the characters, to allow you to read without prior books. I have read both "Motion to Suppress" and "Invasion of Privacy in paperback, have now ordered both with the latest,"Obstruction of Justice" in hardback. These sisters join my hardcover author's Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, Arthur Haily, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, William J. Caunitz and Clive Cussler on my book shelf. You will know "who done it" in the last few pages, I dare you to guess.

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.

This book is terrific and I am glad there are several more for me to read in this series. The plotting is interesting and compelling all the way through to the end. The characters are well drawn. The good guys are appealling and the bad guys almost frighteningly bad! Excellent throughout - although there are two or three glaring credibility-gaps. But, then, nothing is perfect. Most highly recommended.

This makes the second novel involving this sort of
burnt to a crisp female attorney. She's had some
hard knocks lately, has decided to stay away from
homicide defenses, when this nice, safe invasion
of privacy suit lands in her lap. Suffice to say
that it soon turns into a situation bigger than
Nina ever expected to handle. Suddenly the woman she is
defending turns into a harridan,
knows a lot about her, is messing into her private life,
stalking her son, and damaging her already injured
reputation. Her faithful
sidekick investigative detective uncovers some information
that Nina would rather nobody know. All of a sudden she's
defending a murderer, much to her chagrin, one that is
as close to her as her own son. Great read. What a tangle
of interwoven lives in this novel. Might stretch credibility
a little, but then again, what escapist fiction doesn't??

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.

The second Nina Reilly novel is another very good read. Nina is believably fallible, but interesting and lovable. This is, of course, in the light reading category, not quite as good as Tony Hillerman or Judith A. Jance, but still a page turner.

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