Presumption of Death

Zusatztext "Counselor Nina Reilly keeps on ... getting better. Generous heart, steel-trap brain, elegant looks: great fun to read about."— Kirkus Reviews , starred review "The protagonists are well-rounded and engaging, the legal issues are clarified for the layman, and the pace is relentless. Presumption of Death virtually demands to be read in one sitting."— BookPage "Well-rounded and likable characters set against a richly described backdrop of some of the loveliest country in the world."— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Perri O'Shaughnessy is the pen name for sisters Mary and Pamela O’Shaughnessy, who both live in California. They are the authors of eleven bestselling Nina Reilly novels as well as a collection of short crime fiction, Sinister Shorts . Klappentext New York Times bestselling author Perri O'Shaughnessy has garnered impressive acclaim for her tough! passionate thrillers set against the lush Lake Tahoe landscape and the world of one remarkable character: Attorney Nina Reilly. In this spellbinding new novel! O'Shaughnessy delves deeper into the heart and psyche of her popular heroine as Nina journeys back to her hometown to heal old wounds! and instead discovers that old secrets can be the deadliest kind.... Nina Reilly needs a fresh start. In three years! she's taken on some of Lake Tahoe's most controversial cases and has turned her struggling one-woman law firm into a thriving practice. Now she's ready to sort out her complex relationship with her boyfriend! Monterey P.I. Paul van Wagoner. So she's heading to the Carmel Valley! the place where she began her career and where her estranged father lives. It's also a place of dramatic contradictions and hidden tensions! of new wealth and old families. And! within days of her arrival! Nina is already feeling the heat! as a case of arson exposes some of the darkest secrets of her hometown. Two suspicious fires have already raged through the valley this summer! igniting suspicions of arson. When a third blaze ends in a fatality! police zero in on a suspect: Wish! the son of Sandy Whitefeather! Nina's ex-assistant. The dead man is identified as Wish's childhood friend! a troubled local auto mechanic who hated the changes wealthy newcomers had brought to the valley. Nina and Paul are certain that there is more to this strange case than meets the eye. As they work together to clear Wish! new! more frightening questions are raised! and another fire is set. And out of the flames a terrifying picture emerges: a community steeped in secrets and rage! a tangled history between two men! and a killer whose motives are dark and wrenching. With the relentless page-turning suspense that has become her trademark! Perri O'Shaughnessy once again demonstrates her talent to enthrall. A haunting tale of crime and punishment! old grudges and second chances! Presumption of Death is suspense fiction at its finest--instantly compelling and utterly impossible to put down. Leseprobe Chapter One Nina Reilly wiped her goggles and watched Paul swim. He stroked smoothly, kicking underwater, moving up and down the lane without stopping, like a pacing porpoise. He wore his yellow snorkel and goggles, and she could hear his lungs laboring when he came close. Enjoying the pattern of the water on the ceiling of the condo-association pool, she returned to backstroking in another lane. Pull hard back with the arms, keep the legs stiff, and windmill that water. The two of them were going nowhere, but it felt like lovemaking, the cool slap of the water he churned up, the water rippling back to him, a water bed without the plastic. She touched the wall. He turned at the far end. As he swam down the lane she had the strangest feeling about him, as if the pale watery creature before her solidified before her eyes. Hanging on to t...

Product details

• Authors: O&apos, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Perri Shaughnessy
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2004
• EAN: 9780440240877
• ISBN: 978-0-440-24087-7
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 175 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Nina Reilly; Nina Reilly
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature