Acts of Malice (Nina Reilly #5) by Perri OShaughnessy

Acts of Malice (Nina Reilly #5) Reviews

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  Janet

  A stunner! There are many twists you won't see coming. Nina Reilly takes on a big case along with juggling her personal life. Legal suspense fans will love this one.
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  Patricia

  Best story ever by these 2 sisters, WOW what a page turner, clear to the last page... If this would have been a movie, I would have been flopping all over the place, EXCELLENT!!!!!!!
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  Danial Tanvir

  this book was nothing great actually.
  it took me nearly 4 to 5 days to finish it.
  it is actually about a lawyer called nina reilly who lives near a place called lake Tahoe.
  this is actually a small time.
  she has a teen age son called bob and it is her duty to take care of him.
  she then takes on the case of a person called jim strong,
  and the novel actually revolves around the person called jim strong.
  his brother actually dies in a sking accident and it is not known that what actually happened to him.
  his brother is alex strong.
  jim strong is accused of murdering his brother alex strong.
  the rest of the story is about jim strong being taken to court and asked about the murder.
  this goes on and on.
  his wife is called Heidi and she accuses him of killing his own brother but then she goes missing and is no where to be found.
  nina reilly then gets married to collier and then every thing goes crazy.
  jim strong is blamed for every thing.
  it seems as if jim strong is responsible for all the crimes commited over here in this city.
  in the end he is gone from this city and he is out of nina reillys life and she lives a peace full life and remembers the days when she was little and happy.
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  booksalltheway

  Ah! I am really upset...this particular book of the series just wasn't for me.
  
  I have already mentioned this before but I will say it again that I really dislike Nina Riley with every book i pick my dislike for her continues to grow. There are various reason behind it but i will only mentioned those which affected me the most; first, she lead Paul on noose... he proposed her so many times but she rejected him saying she does not want to marry but than comes collier and she agrees! (the whole time I was really feeling sorry for him). Second, it seems she was more worried about Collier than Bob. Third, she mixed her professional life with personal life (and I am not talking about her marrying Collier).
  
  other than that everything happened so haphazardly especially their relationship moved so fast I was dumbfounded.
  
  than the book was also lacking in courtroom scenes and the mystery involving it wasn't strong enough. i found the courtroom scene hilarious instead of opposite....there was strong force behind their words. it sounded more like child play than anything else
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  Stacy

  Pedantic. Relationships that moved too fast to be believed. Ridiculous descriptions of things in an attempt to warm the reader to the characters. Kind of boring, but not so boring that I couldn't finish it. Boring enough that I won't be reading anything else by this author.
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  Gerard

  Perri O'Shaughnessy have improved much in their craft. But they can surely avoid and do without this compulsion to have, a life and death confrontation as a finishing touch, in their stories. Excluding such climaxes, they are a really good comfort reads.
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  Rebecca Cecil

  Amid the sparkling snow-swept mountains of Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly has made a home, juggling the demands of her one-woman law practice and raising a teenage son alone. Now Nina has taken on a case that will threaten everything she holds dear, drawing her into a tangled web of loyalties and alliances within one of Lake Tahoe's most prominent families. Her client: a man accused of murdering his own brother--on the ski slopes of Tahoe. The law says Nina must give Jim Strong the best possible defense. But Strong's family has turned violently against him, and suddenly Nina is at the center of the storm. As she works a flawed and troubling case and gets swept into an unexpected love affair, the two sides of Nina's life come crashing together...in the ultimate act of malice.
  
  Again Perri has written an awesome page-turning suspenseful legal mystery.
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  Sherrill Watson

  See Wendy's review.
  
  "A judge can find probable cause in a can of beets." Nice. But why refer to it again and again and again??
  
  Are the laws in Lake Tahoe any different than anywhere else in that the prosecuting attorney and the defense attorney in an active murder trial cannot date or MARRY?? Maybe if the trial went on for three years, (as murder trials do) but, it was so rushed!
  
  When Heidi got home "he threatened her and bullied her into staying with him." So many women stay with their abusers! She does leave, finally. And, as soon as she has physically recovered, Nina Reilly goes back to work when Collier, her new husband, was just killed in an avalanche. The descriptions of Tahoe were nice, but there were too many. Nah. Too many holes for my taste.
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  ElaineY

  Not so much a legal thriller as a legal melodrama with Nina being a nitwit and a drama mama. If the series kept its focus on the legal aspect and the cases instead of Nina being a ninny and getting her personal life entangled with her professional one in just about the worst way, this series would be much, much better. I already lost whatever liking I had for Nina after the last book but in this one, I not only thought she was polar, she was in her married phase. No other reason for running off to Vegas and marrying Collier. He was the prosecuting attorney, for God's sake.
  
  I hate that the relationship aspect overshadowed the murder/legal aspect.
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  Steve

  I loved this book. Acts of Malice is book #5 in the 13-book Nina Reilly series and it didn't disappoint. Great plot, excellent character and setting descriptions. The O'Shaughnessy sisters have produced a very exciting psychological thriller set again in Lake Tahoe. Lots of action and twists-and-turns. Couldn't put it down.
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  Katherine

  I enjoyed about half of this book, but it ended on a bad note so it gets two stars. I never liked Nina and Colliers relationship. I thought it was very unprofessional, but for him to die; what was the point. Total sensationalism by an author. The writing of the character, Jim, I thought was done very well. I thought he was creepy from the start. I hope the next one is better.
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  Lori Robinett

  An enjoyable read, easy to follow even if you aren't well-versed in the previous books. The mystery surrounding Nina's client, Jim, is interesting though could've used a few more twists and turns. My favorite character is Sandy, so I was glad to see a bit more of her in this book. Good twist at the end made the book worth reading.
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  Phillip III

  Enjoyed the story. The mountain. The skiing. The murder!
  
  The O'SHAUGHNESSY sisters are wonderful!
  
  Phillip Tomasso
  Author of the crime novel YOU CHOOSE and the supernatural thriller WOMAN IN THE WOODS
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  Dana Craig

  I hadn't read this particular Nina Reilly (Acts of Malice) and enjoyed it. Nina is always a strong woman and an excellent attorney and a Mom doing her best to raise her son Bob the best she can. She takes on a case that keeps her twisting in the end and heartbreak.
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  Ross-Barry Barcock.

  A great read.
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  Tina

  This thriller kept me on the edge of my seat. I can't wait to read the next one!
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  Mercurialgem

  I read this years ago and just remember it keeping my interest until the end. It is a quick read so I recommend checking it out from the library.
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  window

  This is the first book I've read by this author. Despite not having read the preceding 4 books in the series, it wasn't difficult to pick up on the characters and their relationships to each other.
  
  Nina Reilly is an attorney in Lake Tahoe who lands a client charged with the murder of his brother. At first, the death looked like a ski accident, but was later upgraded to a homicide. The author does a nice job building suspense by leaving the reader unsure as to whether her client, Jim Strong, is a victim of overzealous prosecution or a sociopath, liar, and murderer. The Lake Tahoe setting was also well done, with a definite sense of place.
  
  
  Acts of Malice was entertaining and was just enough to hold my attention despite occasional weak or unnatural-sounding dialogue and a few plot elements that seemed very farfetched. The rapid pace of Nina's courtship with the prosecutor, Collier, seemed artificially rushed. The fact that a prosecutor and defense attorney who are assigned to the same first degree murder case are romantically involved without raising any ethical flags as long as they don't talk about the case at home was not very believable. As the story build to the final climax, the main characters didn't seem too concerned that a murderer with a grudge against them was on the loose and set themselves up for trouble, not exactly how most people would behave in a similar situation. Still, I would pick up another of her titles to read.
  
  This was an entertaining read as long as you're not expecting a hard hitting legal thriller, but more of an entertaining and light suspense story. I gave it 2.5 stars and rounded up to 3.
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  Emily

  You know how you can turn on the TV and watch any episode of Law & Order and enjoy it regardless of whether you've seen the show before? Law & Order: SVU on the other hand requires more of an investment. One needs to know what has happened in the lives of the detectives and attorneys and how that relates to the case at hand. This book is more like Law & Order: SVU.
  I had never read a book by this author before, and I felt like I was jumping in halfway through the season. The authors refer frequently to events of past books without explaining why these events are relevant. They assume you already know. Nothing on either cover or the inner flap informs you that this might be a series you'd want to read from the beginning.
  The first half of the book read like a harlequin romance novel with multiple sexual encounters that were described lightly, leaving much to the reader's imagination. The second half of the book was more like the mystery novel this book purports itself to be.
  The ending left quite a bit to be desired. Although the main 'mystery' of the book was solved, the ramifications are more than I'd like my hero/heroine to have to experience. I may be judging this a little harshly, since it's really quite far from my favored genres. When my husband, who owned the book initially, saw that I was going to read this, he said I was in for a treat. Again, I think those who'd read the other books featuring this character would enjoy it more.