Obstruction of Justice

New Obstruction of Justice Audiobook

We’re excited to report that Recorded Books has published a new audiobook of Obstruction of Justice, narrated by Mia Barron.

Two people have died in Lake Tahoe in shocking accidents. In a nearly empty parking lot, a hit-and-run driver kills probation officer Anna Meade Hallowell. High up on a jagged mountain, wife abuser Ray de Beers gets what he deserves: he’s struck by lightning. Attorney Nina Reilly, hiking on a rare day off from her one-woman law practice, sees him die. So does her date, Tahoe deputy DA Collier Hallowell. Still shaken from his wife’s violent death, Hallowell is hit hard by the accident. It’s a bad end to a first date … and the start of a case that will test Nina’s ethics and her heart.

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Two people have died in macabre accidents, one struck down by lightning on Tahoe’s highest mountain and one mowed down by a hit and run driver. In the middle of a controversial procedure to exhume one of the bodies, powerful businessman Quentin de Beers is murdered and his grandson, Jason, is charged with the crime. But Jason won’t talk, even to Nina, who is trying to defend him. To save her client, Nina must expose the truth about this troubled family and untangle the hidden connection that links three deaths. As the trial draws to an end, both the D. A. and Nina are forced to make a harrowing decision to protect the innocent…at the risk of letting the guilty go free.

“Nina Reilly is one of the most interesting heroines in legal thrillers today…she is in perpetual struggle against the good-old-boy mountain justice system and her own feisty nature… The climactic surprise is a nice bit of work.”

– San Jose Mercury News

“So in this third legal mystery featuring Nina Reilly, who in book No. 1 was dumped by her husband and law firm and took her son to Tahoe to start over, the idea on Page 1 is to escape that indoor torture and enjoy the magnificent scenery by climbing Mount Tallac…There, O’Shaughnessy reveals her knack for describing Tahoe…The cases are tricky, the law Nina invokes innovative.”

– San Francisco Chronicle

“A roller-coaster ride…a tale not to be missed.”

– Midwest Book Review

“A captivating mystery…a beautifully plotted novel.”

– Monterey County Herald

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Map of Lake Tahoe

Where they live, and died in South Lake Tahoe (credit: Jeff Ward, artist).

“[Paul] turned left into the parking lot of the shopping center where Anna Meade had died.

One thing he had learned through hard experience: You can’t expect to take in a scene from somebody else’s description of it. Even photo locations and angles were chosen by somebody else for somebody else’s eyes. The actuality was fresh to him, different from what he had already been led to expect.

For one thing, the pavement at this far edge of the lot was cracked and worn. For another, nobody else parked this far out. Why had Anna Meade, going in for a bag of groceries, done so?”

An aerial view of South Lake Tahoe in the summer. Forests of pine stretch to the distant mountain peaks, while the lake shines blue.

“All rise,” said Deputy Kimura. “The Superior Court of the County of El Dorado is now in session, the Honorable Curtis E. Milne presiding.”

Sarah de Beers had chosen not to come. Jason hadn’t made an appearance either. Nina didn’t mind their absences. When the clients weren’t in court to worry and fret and drive her crazy, the pressure eased up.

“What’s this?” [Nina and Paul] looked at the place where the rock made a shallow black depression filled with debris. Paul opened his pack and took out a pointed trowellike object. He put on leather gloves and began digging energetically at the debris. “Look,” he said. He reached down…

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