Acts of Malice
Order the New Acts of Malice Audiobook
We’re excited to report that Recorded Books has published a new audiobook of Acts of Malice narrated by Mia Barron.
The New York Times bestselling Nina Reilly novels have dazzled both readers and critics with their crackling blend of legal suspense and taut human drama. Now Perri O’Shaughnessy, hailed as “smart”, “gripping”, and “complex” by the San Francisco Chronicle, brings us her best—and most explosive—Nina Reilly novel yet.
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Jim Strong’s family runs a venerable South Lake Tahoe institution, the posh Paradise Ski Resort. When Jim’s brother Alex dies during a frenzied race down the mountain, the coroner points to unusually brutal injuries and declares that they could not possibly be related to the accident. Jim is charged with murdering his own brother. Instead of rallying around Jim, his family condemns him. Is he a brutal murderer or an innocent scapegoat? Jim’s father is obsessed with his brother’s ghost; Alex’s widow, an exotic and mercurial snowboard champ, carries a torch for Jim. To complicate an already tangled web, Jim’s own wife, Heidi, disappears, leaving a note. She thinks Jim is responsible for Alex’s death.
It’s up to Nina Reilly to unravel the complex family alliances and defend her client — but Nina’s distracted by her own intense and unexpected love affair. A terrifying confrontation with a psychopath causes the two sides of her life to come crashing together in the ultimate act of malice.
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Map of Lake Tahoe
Where they live, and died in South Lake Tahoe (credit: Jeff Ward, artist).
Pyramid Lake, Nevada – something awful happens here in one winter in Acts of Malice.
“At Pyramid Lake, the gas station blazed bluish light out into the darkness. They drove past it to the mobile home park. Night covered up the rusting and peeling trailers, but emphasized the edgy, insecure feeling Nina had felt on her previous visit. The people living here were one paycheck away from the streets…”
They came together way out from the beach, fitting as neatly together as two parts of a zipper. Nina swam away, laughing, and he followed her toward the Mololuas, the two wild islands in the distance.
To hear music similar to the fictional Brazilian music by Carlos Botelho that is featured in this novel, you might want to explore Joâo Gilberto’s “Live in Montreux.”
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“She thought she could smell it with the car door shut.”
And that’s when Nina heard it, the sound of the snowmobile approaching from the far side of the mountain, high above them. It roared into view, close enough for Nina to see the driver’s parka.
“High marking,” Collier said, watching the vehicle zigzag up the face. “It’s when they try to go as high as they can on a mountain without tipping over.
The machine lurched onwards. It began cutting back and forth above them as they turned and struggled down the mountain as fast as they could. They both knew what the driver was doing now. All that snow, the tons and tons that had dropped from the sky . . .
Potent sun reflecting off virginal snowfields, and, filling a mighty fault line between high mountains, an oval of aching blue seventy-two miles around and sixteen hundred feet deep: Lake Tahoe.
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