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Private attorney Nina Reilley has gone through a lot since her first appearance in the 1995 novel MOTION TO SUPPRESS. She left California under a black cloud and moved to Lake Tahoe, Nevada to start her own personal practice. During that time, she had made a new life for herself and made new friends. She is a professional when it comes to her legal career, her personal life…well, that’s another story. She has gone through an emotional roller coaster throughout the series and now she has arrived at a crossroads. In UNFIT TO PRACTICE, her livelihood was put into jeopardy by a vindictive individual and did not know whom to turn to. Private investigator, Paul Van Wagoner has been behind her in most of the novels sacrificing everything to be with her. Their relationship has gone through the regular ups and downs and now it is time to make a decision. Now, she is given the opportunity to start anew and afresh. PRESUMPTION OF DEATH is the start of a new direction for the series. Only time will tell how it goes. Nina Reilley has closed her Lake Tahoe practice for the summer and has moved in with her lover, Paul Van Wagoner at his home in Monterey, California. She will use this down time to filter out her feelings and how she is going to continue her life. Unfortunately, life happens and nothing goes as planned. Wish Whitefeather, the son of Nina’s former assistant, is arrested for arson and the murder of his friend, Danny Cervantes. Nina will go on lawyer mode and give it her all to someone important to her. Things are not quite what they seem and the fires seem to be hiding something. Someone may have planned the perfect crime and Wish appears to be the fall guy. If Nina does not prove his innocence, she will get hell from Wish’s mother. After the way the last book finished, one would expect this latest work to be a new beginning. What it actually does is work as a transition leading the way to a new start. Loose ends are tied up and new possibilities begin to emerge. Fans will continue to follow the series, no matter what the sister team of Perri O’Shaughnessy bring into the life of the their heroine. Their books are fairly consistent and are entertaining; the only problem is that nothing new comes out of it. Regardless of that, it is a good read.
Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, September 2003
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