Unlucky in Law
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We’re excited to report that Recorded Books has published a new audiobook of Unlucky in Law, narrated by Mia Barron.
Nina Reilly takes on the most dangerous and difficult case of her career in New York Timesbestselling author Perri O’Shaughnessy’s latest thriller. An ingenious blend of forensic science, history, and gripping suspense, Unlucky in Law pits the tough but compassionate attorney against the most unbeatable adversary of all: the law.
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Unlucky in Law pits tough, compassionate attorney Nina Reilly against the most unbeatable adversary of all, the law.
Enjoying a respite from work, Nina receives a call from her former boss and mentor begging her to take a hard case: A luckless two-time felon named Stefan Wyatt has robbed a grave, making off with the long-buried bones of a Russian émigré. Further devastating evidence found in the grave suggests that Stefan is guilty of a far more deadly crime.
A young woman is murdered, and Stefan is accused. This is his third strike–he’s facing life in prison.
When a match for Stefan’s DNA further implicates him, Nina suspects that her hapless client has been set up. Her brilliant forensic expert comes up with a startling theory about the case that could rewrite a crucial page of European history.
Does this decades-old body relate to the last czar of Russia, and the Romanov court?
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Map of Monterey
Where it’s all happening in Monterey.
Listen to the Radio Promotion:
“The wave rose behind her, a silk sheet, rippling and folding, the blue and gold of a Faberge egg, collecting colors. With a sudden heave, it gathered in strength.
This would be the one, Nina decided, admiring its perfect lift, and the hint of a perfect curve to come.
He looked for an odd marker, one with two straight parallel boards at the top and, below, a crooked, slanty one. He flashed on the headstones, on the strange names and lettering. Why did so many Russian people come to Monterey, he wondered, enough of them to rate their own neighborhood of the dead?
Although time was tight and Nina knew she should work through lunch, they all piled out the door, Nina in the place of honor, walking alongside Klaus at his sedate pace into Carmel’s tangy ocean air. The made their way through the tourists to the cafe. Klaus went through the door into the heavenly smells waiting inside. Through the window, she saw him sit down in the place where he had eaten his lunch for years. The waitress and the manager stood by, ready to attend them. He caught her looking his way and grinned so widely she could see his gums, pink as a baby’s.
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She arrived at the white wood frame office near the corner of Lincoln and Eighth by eleven-thirty. Walking up the white-brick stairway to the law offices, she remembered herself in her thick-soled athletic shoes bounding up these same stairs during her law clerk days. Somehow she had managed to take care of Bob as a single mom, work at the Pohlmann firm, and go to law school at night. None of her subsequent incarnations, as an appellate lawyer in San Francisco and as a sole practitioner at Tahoe had been as harried, yet she remembered those days as frequently happy and rewarding.
The bare bones of the cottage, an old white frame built over a hundred years ago, would be lovely if you could see them better, Nina decided. The house was ideally located, up a slope and just a block from Lover’s Point, offering a glimpse of the deep blue Pacific from its front yard.
Various utilitarian renovations had taken place over the years to keep the tenants happy: the artificial turf leading up the carport and over the porch would have to go.