Invasion of Privacy (Nina Reilly #2) by Perri OShaughnessy

Invasion of Privacy (Nina Reilly #2) Reviews

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  Barbara

  
  
  In this 2nd book in the 'Nina Reilly' series, the defense attorney represents her ex-boyfriend when he's charged with murder. The book can be read as a standalone.
  
  
  
  *****
  
  Attorney Nina Reilly's client, Terry London, is being sued to prevent the release of her film about a long missing girl named Tamara Sweet.
  
  
  
  In her film London suggests that Sweet is dead and that the crime is connected to the disappearance of several other girls in the Lake Tahoe area.
  
  
  
  In the midst of the court proceedings Terry London is brutally murdered and Nina's ex-boyfriend Kurt - who is also the father of her son Bob - is accused of the crime. Turns out Kurt used to date Tamara and was also previously married to Terry London. So a lot of coincidences here.
  
  
  
  Of course Nina decides to defend Kurt and runs around questioning witnesses and so on. There are plenty of possible suspects for the incidents, including Tamara's parents and friends.....and Terry's rough-guy neighbors. The case goes to court and the courtroom scenes are the best part of the story.
  
  
  
  There are some interesting characters including Nina's Native American secretary; her private investigator/would-be boyfriend; and a nasty local defense attorney who doesn't like women rivals.
  
  
  
  My problem with this book is that there's some egregious unethical lawyering and I was actually hoping the people involved would be exposed. For me the book could have been edited to be quite a bit shorter but I thought it was a decent mystery with an appropriate ending.
  
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  Paul Weiss

  She reckoned an invasion of privacy lawsuit would be a nice, safe, quiet way to practice law!
  
  Well, obviously, she reckoned wrong!
  
  Nina Reilly’s client, Terry London, has completed a rather noir and disturbing film documentary about a young girl who has been missing for many years. Although the girl’s parents initially cooperated in the film production in the hopes that it might lead to a resolution to the long-standing mystery of their daughter’s disappearance, they have now come to the belief that the film constitutes an invasion of their privacy and they are suing for damages. When the film maker is murdered, her checkered past, the missing girl’s history and Nina Reilly’s own history come together in a complex clash of events that makes for a very readable thriller.
  
  While the ultimate resolution of events in INVASION OF PRIVACY was reasonably predictable and not particularly surprising, it remained entertaining and, indeed, quite compulsive reading. So much so, in fact, that I will be looking for other novels in the Nina Reilly series by the same author. Recommended to fans of the mystery and legal thriller genre.
  
  Paul Weiss
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  Kristen

  It's been a long time since I read one of Perri O'Shaughnessy's books. This is the second installment in the Nina Reilly series. This is one of the best legal thrillers so far in her series. When Nina represents a civil case, things change on a dime for her, when her client hates her guts for a reason. And then her past reared its ugly head in this case, when we learn what happened to her in the past and how her family's affected. It's really an emotional roller coaster ride that thrown her for a loop. Old secrets and past wounds come up in her personal life, and a shocking twist or two surprises us all in the end. You really get involved and see what happens in Nina's world and inside her psyche.
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  Patricia

  This 2nd series just wasn't as good as the 1st, but Definitely redeemed itself at the ENDING!!!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Robert Jackson

  I quite enjoyed the book!
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  Dianne

  Without a doubt, this was one of the most unusual murder mysteries I have ever read. I have never met such an evil, bone chilling antagonist that wasn't written into a horror novel before!
  
  Nina think that she is safe defending a filmmaker from having her film of long ago disappearance, suppressed. Little does Nina know that this is going to become so much more.
  
  
  With this novel we learn so much more about Nina and her son Bobby, Nina's brother Matt and even about Nina herself.
  
  This turns into one of the most seemingly convoluted mysteries I have ever read. Several times I wanted to just put it down, but something about it kept calling to me to finish it-that I would never figure out who done it and why. I would never have a moments peace unless I knew what happened. I'm glad I kept at it, because the ending was just WOW!
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  Connie

  I think I read this one a long time ago, but I didn't remember the ending and it was good to get back to this character. I really enjoyed this one. It had the thriller aspect as well as a good mystery.
  
  Nina seems to be a little over the top in her practice of the law. Would you really let someone go on trial when you know they didn't commit the crime? It was an interesting dilemma that is for sure.
  
  I thought I had it figured out, but didn't really in the end.
  
  I am planning to read more of this author in the future. 5 out of 5 for me.
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  Angie

  In part it may have been the reader, but overall I found the whole case hard to buy into from a legal standpoint and the relationship between the main character and her son, a relationship which played a central role in the story, totally lacking in depth. I have no idea why I stuck with this one to the end!
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  Phillip III

  So happy I found these ladies. They are awesome authors. They put together complex legal plots and surround the story with richly developed characters.
  
  Can't wait to start reading the third in the series!
  
  Phillip Tomasso
  Author of the crime novel, YOU CHOOSE
  and the thriller, WOMAN IN THE WOODS
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  J

  Ok, maybe this is a 1.5 because I kept reading it, but it definitely isn't a legal thriller as it was made out to be! Mostly, it's about poor Nina who can't decide which guy she wants. Borderline Harlequin romance.
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  Rebecca Cecil

  The bloodstains on the courtroom floor belong to attorney Nina Reilly. Months earlier she'd been shot during a heated murder trial. She should have died that day. Instead, Nina has returned to the same Lake Tahoe court. Her only concession to her lingering fear is to give up criminal law. She figures an invasion of privacy lawsuit is a nice, safe civil action that will help her support her young son and pay the bills for her one-woman law office. She figures wrong.
  
  Nina's client is Terry London, a filmmaker whose documentary about a missing girl is raising disturbing questions. The girl's distraught parents believe the film invades their privacy. But Terry's brutal murder changes everything. Breaking her promise to herself, Nina decides to defend Terry's accused murderer, a man she'd known years before and hoped never to see again. Suddenly the secrets of Nina's past are beginning to surface in a murder case that gets more dangerous every day. The evidence against her client is shocking and ironclad--a video of Terry's dying words. The only chance Nina has to save the man may be illegal. And if it fails, Nina may lose the case, her practice...and even her life
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  booksalltheway

  not really 4 stars but 3.5
  
  i will go into the description of the book I just wanted to write how I felt about it. the mystery containing inside the story was spell bounding at the start it was quite hard to figure out the reason behind the murders but everything started making sense as the story progressed.
  
  the courtroom scene was amazing at the same time disappointing compared to the first book as it was shorter.
  
  throughout the whole book my only disappointment was Nina Riley (yes! the very main character of the book) that's the reason why i gave 3.5 instead of 4. I really tried liking her but I simply couldn't because of the two reason; first her way of dealing with her son and second she is leading on three man together. but other than that i love the whole book.
  
  My favorite dialogue:- "she only recorded what was already there, the dirt, cobwebs, and cockroaches. i suggest to the court that she was invited in and it's bad law to try to make her pretend the house was clean.
  
  I will recommend this book to every mystery reader especially the courtroom scene lovers
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  Lori Robinett

  I have to keep reminding myself that this book was written several years ago (1996). The main character does a decent job of juggling the responsibilities in her life most of the time, but she works too much, and allows that work to blur the lines between work and personal. My biggest gripe though, is the damsel in distress situations the authors put her in. I want to read about strong, independent women, not a woman who keeps men dangling on the line and who depends on them to save her.
  
  All in all, an interesting read. The mystery was compelling, although the resolution of the mystery was dissatisfying given Nina's penchant for ignoring the law. Characters shouldn't always be good, but I have a tough time with attorneys who aren't honest while dealing with the system.
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  JacQuelyne

  Consistently good writing
  
  As with her first book in the Nina Reilly series, the story is well constructed, the characters more than stick figures and the plot keeps your interest. I am enjoying this series very much.
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  Teresa Miller

  Another good book by Perri O'Shaughnessy.
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  Michelle Hanson

  Am enjoying the series
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  ElaineY

  Not as good as the first one. The Big Reveal wasn't so much a surprise as merely following the paces to apprehend the killer. Very anti-climactic.
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  Megs

  Meh.
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  Jubilee

  I really liked this book! I learned more about Nina and who her son’s father is! The book is creepy. I had to put it down a few times.
  So far I love this series.
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  Mary Ann

  I love legal thrillers and mystery novels. Too bad Perri O’Shaughnessy can’t write them. In the Nina Reilly books, the authors give too much background. The sentences are so wordy even a freshman college student could write better.
  This book should start on page 128. The story up till then is background. Cut that beginning to about ten pages, and move it further back in the book.
  We don’t need the sex scene between Paul and Nina. If the book isn’t pornography, it should handle sex like the movies did for generations. Show a blazing fire or curtains waving in the wind. If the couple is together when they say good night and still together in the morning, the reader knows what happened in between.
  If the scene isn’t about character or plot development, take it out
  We don’t need to know about Bob’s problem’s in school. We don’t need the monster truck competition scene.
  Believe it or not, Nina and Paul sit down and watch a documentary film and the reader is given scene by scene descriptions. That covers nine pages, and feels like twenty to the reader.
  Eleven year old boys don’t play with stuffed toys.
  If your child has been kidnapped, call the police. Too many fictional characters try to work with the kidnappers. Nina arms herself and goes to meet the kidnapper by herself. In real life this would be disastrous.
  At one point in the courtroom, Nina’s secretary whispers what needs to be done next. Her secretary is a better lawyer than she is. Imagine Della Street telling Perry Mason what to do next.
  There are dozens of these inconsistencies, I won’t bother to point out. Some were pointed out by other reviewers. They are too many to list. When these add up as they do in this novel, you have an author not paying enough attention and writing sloppily.
  The story is a good one, but it needs to be chopped down to about 180 pages. The book has over 500 pages, Talk about padding. The clues were good and evenly distributed.
  The book has some humor. Like I said the plot is good. The writers didn’t know how to tell the story
  
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  Barbara Mitchell

  A few weeks ago I read and reviewed the first O'Shaughnessy book fearing Nina Reilly, attorney, who had moved to Lake Tahoe following her divorce. In Motion to Suppress Nina and her son Bobby were living with her brother and his family as she established her new practice. I really enjoyed getting to know these characters and the Lake Tahoe area, so I was anxious to read the second book in the series.
  
  Invasion of Privacy continues their story and the connection between Nina and an investigator from California named Paul Van Wagoner. We also learn the identity of Bobby's biological father. All of the characters, both personal and business, anyone connected with Nina actually, are in terrible danger in this book because of Nina's client, a woman film maker named Terry London. I was pretty sure everything would work out all right, but I was definitely afraid for some of the characters, including Nina and her son. This is a edge-of-the-seat read that has you holding your breath more than once. I suspected who-dun-it early on but couldn't be sure until near the end.
  
  The plot involves four young women who disappeared several years earlier and a movie London made about one of them who hasn't been seen in 12 years. Nina represents London in an invasion of privacy case brought by the parents of the girl and others who are horrified by the movie and don't want it released. That case and what happens as a result involve fascinating legal issues, and bring Nina up against an attorney she has faced off with before. He's everything a lawyer shouldn't be, a character you'll love hating. He discovers that Nina is much too clever and versed in the law for him to be crossing her.
  
  I loved this book as much as the first one. Now I see I don't have the third one so I'll be off to the library to borrow it. We have so many mystery lovers in this area, I'm sure they'll have it. I do recommend both O'Shaughnessy books I've read so far.
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  Nolan

  This is part of a series about Lake Tahoe-area attorney Nina Riley. Written by two sisters, this series is always worth dipping into.
  
  As the book opens, you are given a glimpse of a vignette in which 18-year-old Tamara Sweet is about to die. She's a girl who wants to establish her own boundaries, and that usually means doing the bar and drug scene. She escapes one bar with a particularly obnoxious couple inside, goes out into the snowy night alone, and is never heard from again.
  
  Years later, filmmaker Terry London has come home to make a movie about Tamara's disappearance. Tahoe-area teens have disappeared over the years since, and London expects her film will catapult her into the realm of the well known and well off. Tamara's family, although cooperative initially with the filmmaking, have decided they don't want it shown. Nina Riley is asked to defend the highly unpleasant woman who made the film so that it can be released to the network. Nina wins, but the price is steep
  indeed. Her own privacy is harshly and mercilessly invaded, as the title suggests.
  
  To further complicate things, Nina's son, Bobby, has begun to express extreme interest in his real father. So obsessed does the 11-ear-old become that he undertakes a mission to find his dad by himself.
  
  Tragically enough, the situation worsens when filmmaker Terry London is murdered and the main suspect is young Bobby Riley's real dad. It's up to Nina to free her former boyfriend while juggling feelings for her
  investigator.