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    Dreams of the Dead
    Dreams of the Dead
    Dreams of the Dead
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    Dreams of the Dead

    Written by Perri O'Shaughnessy

    Narrated by January LaVoy

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    In a spellbinding new thriller, New York Times bestselling author Perri O’Shaughnessy plunges the audacious yet all-too-human Nina Reilly back into the center of a murderous family game and reawakens a very real nightmare she had every reason to believe was dead…and buried.

    In addition to coping with her demanding, sometimes creepy clients, Nina Reilly is dealing with prickly personal issues involving her sixteen-year-old son, Bob, his estranged father, and her investigator, confidante, and sometimes lover, Paul van Wagoner.

    Then, in walks disaster. The millionaire owner of a Tahoe ski resort, Philip Strong, is the father of Jim Strong: a sociopath who devastated many innocent lives, including Nina’s when she defended Jim again charges of murder two years earlier.

    He shattered her life, then vanished. Paul van Wagoner made sure of that.

    Now in negotiations to sell his ski resort, Philip has received a letter purportedly from his fugitive son in extradition-free Brazil, demanding his share of the profits. Nina is certain it’s a con, but to prove that means exposing the secrets of someone very close to her. But when two local women are murdered, Nina begins to question their links to her client and the truth about Jim Strong’s sudden disappearance.

    As Nina’s worst fears flood back, with time running out, she’s about to discover that the dreams of the dead can still destroy the living. With its breakneck pace, pulsing human drama, and serpentine twists, Dreams of the Dead once again establishes why O’Shaughnessy has been hailed as “a master of the legal thriller” (Vincent Bugliosi).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJul 12, 2011
    ISBN9780743597517
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    Perri O'Shaughnessy

    Perri O'Shaughnessy is the pen name for two sisters, Pamela and Mary O'Shaughnessy. Together they have written twelve Nina Reilly legal thrillers, a stand-alone thriller, KEEPER OF THE KEYS, and one short story collection, SINISTER SHORTS. Pamela, a graduate of Harvard Law School, practiced law in Monterey, San Pablo, and South Lake Tahoe, California, for sixteen years. She lives in northern California. Mary worked as a multimedia editor for many years. She lives with her husband and children near San Francisco.

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    • 4/5
      January Lavoy rocked another book! Lots of characters and interesting !
    • 4/5
      Synopsis: Nina's practice is moving along slowly. Sandy wants her to upgrade office furniture and take on a client who can pay for it. Unfortunately the person who can pay for the upgrade and give Nina's practice a boost is also the person who can pull her back into the nightmare of Jim Strong. Paul comes to Nina's aid and puts himself in jeopardy, as well.Review: This is a deliciously twisted plot with some additional surprises along the way. All of the characters re-appear in this book and several loose ends are dealt with.
    • 5/5
      Dreams of the Dead by Perri O'ShaughnessyLong time readers of Perri O’Shaughnessy, pen name for sisters Mary and Pamela O'Shaughnessy, will know that in an earlier book “Acts of Malice” Jim Strong who is at the heart of this new book, had been taken care of by Paul van Wagoner…permanently. Or, so we thought. Has Jim come back to life now that his father Phillip wants to sell the fading ski resort? New readers will not have a particularly difficult time getting into this newest book if they do not want to read the others in the series. BUT, I really do encourage you to take some time and read them in order at your leisure. The entire series is well worth it (well except for one book that is.).While this book may not have had the heart stopping action that some of the previous books have had, it has somewhat more of a mystery surrounding everything. Plots within plots… mysteries within mysteries. And a great big moral question standing in Nina and Paul’s way.“Dreams of the Dead” has its usual cast of characters and then a few new ones thrown in for good measure and a bit of comic relief. This book is an intense nail-biting ride. One minute you will think you know for sure what’s going on and the next you will be flummoxed.If I have any criticism for this book, it is that I’m wondering just why the Ms.’s O’Shaughnessy felt the need of having the character Sandy(Nina’s aide) writing a book and then adding that book into this one. It didn’t add any pleasure for me since I felt it was just thrown in as some filler.Still even with that little fly in the ointment, I feel that this was one of the better books that the sister’s have produced lately and I would recommend this book and this series highly to anyone who likes legal thrillers.
    • 3/5
      I did not enjoy this latest installment in the Nina Reilly series. The editing and proofing were so bad that the errors were distracting - there seemed to be one after another.But the worst part was that the story could have ended almost before it began. Convinced that the affadavit from the "son" was a fraud, and considering that there was a living father and sibling, why didn't Nina demand a DNA test? Instead, she sends an untrustworthy PI to Brazil to attempt to find this person and puts Paul in an untenable position.