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Author: Perri O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release Date: 2004-07-13
ISBN-10: 0385336462
ISBN-13: 9780385336468
List Price: $25.00
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Nina Reilly takes on the most dangerous and difficult case of her career in New York Times bestselling author Perri O’Shaughnessy’s latest thriller. An ingenious blend of forensic science, history, and gripping suspense, Unlucky in Law pits the tough but compassionate attorney against the most unbeatable adversary of all: the law.
Nina has just received a last-minute call from her old boss and mentor in Monterey County, California, where she is enjoying the breathtaking scenery and spending time with her boyfriend, P.I. Paul van Wagoner. Klaus Pohlmann is in desperate straits and begs Nina to take over a seemingly unwinnable case: A luckless two-time felon named Stefan Wyatt has robbed a grave and made off with the long-buried bones of a Russian émigré. When he is caught and arrested, further devastating evidence found in the grave suggests that Stefan is guilty of a far more deadly crime.
A young woman, a classmate of Stefan’s, has been killed, and he is accused of her murder. Now, as a result of California’s Third Strike law, Wyatt is looking at twenty-five years to life whether he’s convicted of grand theft or murder. Either way, he’s in big trouble.
With her client’s blood DNA found in the dead woman’s apartment, Nina faces an uphill battle. Suspecting that her hapless client has been set up, Nina brings in a brilliant forensic pathologist who comes up with a startling theory about the case that could rewrite a crucial page of European history. As the evidence mounts against Nina’s client, Paul launches his own investigation into the shadowy past of the two-decades-old skeleton. But long-held secrets nearly get him killed and reveal a more insidious evil at work—and an extraordinary story dating back to tsarist Russia and the Romanov court. As Wyatt edges closer to the unluckiest verdict of his young life, Nina makes an astounding discovery that just might save her client—or expose a killer who could bury them all.
Brilliantly imagined and compulsively readable, Unlucky in Law is a beguiling mix of wrenching drama and gripping action. And it is Perri O’Shaughnessy’s most accomplished novel to date.
Very disappointing!!
| Customer Rating: | | I loved the Nina O'Reilly series but, was disappointed with this book. Nina comes across as so weak and as a doormat. Allowing Paul to force her into wearing his ring while she decides on his proposal and then not calling him on humiliating her set her up as a doormat. She wears her ring to court to question his ex-lover and then finds out from a mutual friend, Ginger, that he slept with his ex but, she doesn't confront him, pretending that nothing has happened while continuing to wear his ring. It amazed me that two women wrote this book. Who would put up with that? The fact that she later goes dancing with him and allows him his "we're adults and I thought you'd understand" line floored me. |
Well-written, engrossing mystery thriller
| Customer Rating: | | I've now read almost all the Nina Reilly books, and I do recommend them to anyone who likes a good mystery thriller. There is always enough in these books to keep you guessing, with plenty of false leads and plot twists and turns. The authors almost always make some factual and legal mistakes (as a lawyer I spot the legal mistakes; as a car buff I spot the automotive ones; and as a reader I spot occasional inconsistencies from chapter to chapter), so I can't say these books are perfectly edited. The action is intermittent but sufficient to keep my interest. But the best thing I can say is that the plots are intricate and interesting, and the dialogue and characters are quite believable. Well worth trying out. |
Too self centered to be in love
| Customer Rating: | | I am a sometimes reader of this series because I get bored with Nina's indecisiveness about her life. The story was good and a mystery with lots of twists and turns but Nina contributed very little as far as solving the murder or doing much to get her client off. Everything about her in this story pretty much involved court room questioning and no great drama even there. In short, if Paul hadn't done the leg work and research along with Ginger, the blood expert, she wouldn't have had any info on this Russian family or how they all tied together or the two brothers who either lied or failed to come forward and the mother from hell who was willing to throw her youngest to the wolves. Nina didn't solve the mystery! Everyone else did the research and put it together for her. The romance between her and Paul is like several other lady lawyer series, the women dangle the man who does her dirty work and protects her back, then she is all bent out of shape because he got tired of waiting for her to make up her mind about the relationship. After waiting in the wings indefinitely for her, he went to another woman and broke Nina's heart. Right! Why Paul would wait around as long as he did and risk his neck as many times as he did for her, is the biggest mystery of all. Maybe the next book should try to unravel that mystery. |
Nina's saga
| Customer Rating: | Fairly slow and uninteresting at the begining, but picked up the pace later on
Paul is a hunk, who will Nina's heart pick now?
The saga continues... |
Good mystery
| Customer Rating: | I'm a sucker for stories that straddle two different historical eras, so this murder mystery that links present events to the murder of the last Russian czar and his family in 1918 was a natural for me. Unlike so many novels of this sort, the plot is not obvious, yet it is also an easy read for an airplane trip or a commute to work on the train.
The characters are well drawn. Nina Reilly, the attorney hero, is likable and the other primary characters have enough complexity to be believeable. The reader knows right away who the good guys are, but the murderer is not immediately identified.
Overall, this is a very good novel that will hold the attention of an intelligent reader without offering too much challenge to be easily entertaining. If you enjoy page turners and don't want to drag a big, hardcover book around town, this book is for you. |
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