Move To Strike

Zusatztext "A fast-paced page-turner ... Plenty of plot twists and turns." — New York Post "Suspenseful! entertaining reading."— BookPage "Compulsively readable ... very possibly her best ... A page-turner that will keep you up at night."— Drood Review of Mystery Informationen zum Autor Perri O'Shaughnessy Klappentext New York Times bestselling author Perri O'Shaughnessy takes the courtroom thriller to breathtaking new heights in Move to Strike, a page-turning masterpiece of suspense that brings back attorney Nina Reilly, hailed by critics as "one of the most interesting heroines in legal thrillers today" (San Jose Mercury News). Nina Reilly thought she'd seen it all. An attorney and single mother, Nina isn't afraid to tackle the toughest cases and trickiest defenses. But she is wholly unprepared for her latest client—sixteen-year-old Nicole Zack, rebel, thief, and best friend of Nina's teenage son, Bob. Did Nikki steal something from her uncle, a prominent plastic surgeon, then kill him in cold blood? To find out, Nina calls in Paul van Wagoner, a P.I. and ex-lover whose bravado conceals a troubling personal secret. As Paul investigates the eerily coincidental death of the surgeon's son— killed in a plane crash the same night his father was murdered—Nina sorts through the twisting lies surrounding Nikki, uncovering a seething mystery, some enraged former patients, and two very old crimes. Finally, Nina must confront the central question she must answer in order to save her client: What did Nikki really see the night of her uncle's murder? Leseprobe Chapter One Moist night wind swept the skin on her arms and flicked sharp points of hair into her eyes. Pulling her sweatshirt tight against the gusts, Nikki tucked her hair inside the hood and splashed the oars into the deep black water of Lake Tahoe. A hundred years ago, under the same crescent moon, a Washoe Indian in a kayak would have known how to dip the oars silently, secretly, but no matter how she tipped them, they sucked water into the air, leaving behind a trail of sound. Silvery snow tipped the mountain peaks that circled like clouds around the lake. She stayed close enough to the shoreline -- flat black trees against a glinting navy sky -- to track her progress, but far enough out to remain unidentifiable by anyone nosy enough to observe her. She could not be caught, because tonight... Tonight, she was going on a raid! And for the first time, she was going alone. She felt high with the strength of her arms and the tautness of her legs as she rowed, as high as she had felt on New Year's Eve when her mom had let her drink champagne, so even though she didn't like being out here all alone, floating above a deep, dark immensity she didn't want to think about, she wasn't about to turn back. Scott would have come with her if she had told him about it, but tonight -- tonight was personal. She was not just skulking and peeking in windows for a joke, or scrounging a few leftover Heinekens from an outside cooler. Not that she didn't miss having him along. She wouldn't mind a warm body beside her floating into this dark moonlit haze. As a steady breeze blew over the lake, the water churned, pushing her farther out than she liked. But it wasn't far now. She knew what she was doing was wrong. But a while back, being bad had stopped feeling bad. Scott had helped with that. So many rules were stupid. He had shown her a whole new way of thinking. You had to make your own way. Tonight was about making something really wrong right again. She stretched. Her arms ached. She wasn't used to rowing so much, but then, her original plans for the year hadn't included breaking into someone's house. She hadn't exactly trained for it. She had been forced into it. Three days before, the mail brought a letter addressed...

Product details

• Authors: O&apos, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Perri Shaughnessy
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.06.2001
• EAN: 9780440225829
• ISBN: 978-0-440-22582-9
• No. of pages: 488
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 175 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Nina Reilly; Nina Reilly
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense