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Loading... Motion to Suppress: A Novel (Nina Reilly) (original 1995; edition 1996)by Perri O'Shaughnessy (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Misty Patterson is a barmaid at a casino in Lake Tahoe. She comes home to her drunken husband who mistreats her. In defense, Misty strikes her violently jealous husband with a polar bear statue. She admits that--but did she kill him? She says she can't remember. Like so many times before, Misty blacked out and the rest of the evening is a blank. Even her childhood memories are a blank. Misty wakes up the next morning and her husband has disappeared, leaving behind a trail of blood, and she's the number-one murder suspect. San Francisco attorney Nina Reilly has problems of her own. A bad marriage and a worse career setback. Nina relocates to Lake Tahoe and is resolved to recover her spirit, give her young son a secure home, and build up a small law practice. Then, Misty Patterson walks in the door; a blond Barbie doll of a cocktail waitress accused of murdering her husband. Common sense says Misty is lying. To win this case Nina will have to trust her own instincts, diving headlong into the dark convolutions of the human mind. This murder caseāteeming with sinister secrets, unspoken betrayals, and jolting revelationsāis going to change everything Nina Reilly believes about the law. It's going to rock everything Misty believes about herself. And if they can learn to trust each other, it's going to give both women their one and only chance to reclaim their shattered lives. I first read this book many years ago - before I joined goodreads, I believe - and read the first few in the series. Back then I was really into mysteries, legal thrillers, crime dramas, etc. I read so many of them I got sick of the genre and haven't read a single similar book in probably close to 15 years. Recently I've been kind of "stuck" - can't get into any books - so I've been rereading the Wagons West series and decided maybe what I needed was to try a different genre again, so I requested this one from the library. I did enjoy it - but I'm still burnt out on the genre. I was bored throughout most of the book. Of course the book is dated, too, with outdated technology especially, and I remembered who the murderer was the mystery part of the book wasn't a mystery to me. I do recommend the book to those who do enjoy the crime / legal dramas no reviews | add a review
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HTML:Returning from her late shift as a barmaid at a casino in Lake Tahoe, Misty Patterson struck her violently jealous husband in self-defense. She admits thatā??but did she kill him? She says she can't remember. Like so many times before, Misty blacked out and the rest of the evening is a blank. Now her husband has disappeared, leaving behind a trail of blood, and she's the number-one murder suspect with no one to turn to for help. San Francisco attorney Nina Reilly is also on the runā??from a bad marriage and a worse career setback. Relocated to Lake Tahoe, Nina is resolved to recover her spirit, give her young son a secure home, and build up a small solo practice. But, when Misty Patterson walks in the door, a blond Barbie doll of a cocktail waitress accused of murder, it triggers a harrowing series of events that will change both women's lives forever. Common sense says Misty is lying. To win this case Nina will have to trust her own instincts, diving headlong into the dark convolutions of the human mind. This murder caseā??teeming with sinister secrets, unspoken betrayals, and jolting revelationsā??is going to change everything Nina Reilly believes about the law. It's going to rock everything Misty believes about herself. And if they can learn to trust each other, it's going to give both women their one and only chance to reclaim their shattered lives. In a spellbinding novel that doesn't let go from the first page until the shocking unforgettable conclusion, Perri O'Shaughnessy delivers an electrifying legal thriller about two women risking all they have for the truth that could cost them their livesā??or set No library descriptions found. |
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I really enjoyed this fast paced legal thriller. Published in 1995, it seems a bit outdated in many places. The characters need to be a bit more developed but that's normal in a debut novel. I see there are now thirteen books in the Nina Reilly series and I definitely plan to pick up another one in the future. It's not John Grisham, but I didn't expect it to be. While a little too long, it was still an entertaining read.
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