Move to Strike

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Summary: Another best-seller!
Review: In my community, among us avid mystery readers, the release of the the "latest" book in Perri O'Shaughnessy's Nina Reilly series is an eagerly anticipated event. This annual reunion with Nina Reilly, Paul van Wagoner, Sandy Whitefeather, Bob Reilly and Nina's brother, Matt, and sister-in-law, Andrea, is much like spending time with "old friends" and catching up on their latest trials, tribulations and exploits. Even so, this sixth book, MOVE TO STRIKE, is far more than a welcome visit with people we've come to know and love. It's a fast-moving story shot through with action, suspense and psychological turmoil.

Nikki Zack may have murdered her uncle, Bill Sykes; she may have caused a plane crash that killed two people; and she may be mixed up in a mysterious mining claim. But when Nina Reilly's son, Bob, insists his friend, Nikki, is innocent, intrepid defense attorney, Nina, takes on Nikki's problem-ridden defense.

Masterful both at making minor characters memorable and major characters unforgettable, O'Shaughnessy brilliantly draws the reader into Nikki Zack's nightmare by making this stubborn, smart-alecky and rebellious teenager both likable and sympathetic and then spices up an already delicious plot by mixing in Paul van Wagoner's struggle to deal with his prior act of vigilantism. A satisfying "read" that's sure to please both long-time devotees and newcomers alike, MOVE TO STRIKE is yet another tour de force that will undoubtedly insure Perri O'Shaughnessy's preeminence among today's mystery writers.

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Summary: Move to Strike
Review: Its addictive, we can't seem to get enough of the Nina Series. Finaly, Paul was given a more important role, and the author explored those very intriguing and mysterious layers of the most appealing charachter of this series. It was seductive to learn what are Paul's weak spots, he is sooo fascinating. As an additional treat, Sandy, the very verbal but always loyal secretary, allowed us to take a peek at her very private life.
O'Shaughenessey is a master at what they do because while bring the reader to their web of legal tactics, murder investigations and interesting storylines turn arounds, they build up the relationships among its players.
Cheers for digging deeper in the personalities of the fabulous charachters in this series.

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Summary: Reilly keeps getting better
Review: Lake Tahoe attorney Nina Reilly's latest outing, finds the single mother still grieving over the murder of her husband ("Acts of Malice") and worrying over her son, subject, like herself, to horrifying nightmares of the killer still at large.

When Nicole Zack, 16, a friend of Reilly's 13-year-old son, is accused of murdering her uncle while attempting a burglary, Reilly takes the case, though the troubled girl seems determined to thwart her through lies, stubborn silence, and even defiant courtroom dress.

Reilly calls upon her ex-lover, private investigator Paul Van Wagoner, for help. Van Wagoner, struck by the coincidental death of the victim's son in a plane crash the same night, takes that angle but he's hampered by a terrible secret - unbeknownst to Reilly or anyone else, he killed the man who murdered her husband.

Nicole and her hapless mother are sympathetically drawn and the story is an absorbing one with a surprise ending but the real meat here is the continuing development of Reilly, her pubescent son and Van Wagoner. O'Shaughnessy gets better with every book and this one will have you thinking about the next as you turn the last satisfying page.

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Summary: Hope Nina Reilly Is Around For A Long Time
Review: Move To Strike is the newest novel in Perry O'Shaunessy's Nina Reilly series. Move To Strike continues with single mom, and recently widowed lawyer, Nina Reilly. Nina takes on the case of Nikki Zack, a rebellious teenager, who is friends with Nina's son, Bob. Nikki is up for first degree murder of her uncle, Bill Skyes, a wealthy plasic surgeon. Although Nikki was at her uncles home the night he was killed to steal from him, she claims she didn't do it. To make matters more interesting, Nikki's cousin and Bill Skyes son, Chris is killed in a plane crash the same night. Nina believes Nikki knows more than she is saying, but Nikki is keeping secret what exactly she saw that night. Nina hires Paul Van Wagoner, a ex love and private detective who always helps her out. Paul and Nina dig up motive to kill from quite a few, and have to rely on the facts they discover to help Nikki out. Move To Strike is another page turner we've come to expect from O'Shaunessy. Nina Reilly is a great heroine, that I hope sticks around for more great novels!