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Writ of Execution
by O'Shaughnessy, Perri
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385334834
- ISBN 13
- 9780385334839
- Seller
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. First Edition with full number line. Map on end pages . 1.1 x 8.1 x 5.5 Inches. 416 pages. Nina Reilly Series, No. 7. In the mountain resort town of South Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly is known for taking on the underdog cases, the kind that can make -- or break -- her one-woman law practice. Her latest case begins in the middle of a summer night when she is called away from a very personal visit to her investigator Paul van Wagoner's hotel room to meet with a desperate new client at her office who gives her name as Jessie Potter. The frightened young woman has just hit a huge slot machine jackpot, and the men in suits are waiting to hand her the check just as soon as she tells them her real identity. With time running out, Nina helps her client devise a brilliant plan to collect the money while keeping her true identity a secret. Unfortunately, powerful interests have lined up to grab the money. The gaming commission thinks the jackpot was rigged. The man sitting on the seat just before the jackpot hit says it's his, and he doesn't mind going outside the law to get it. And the wealthy man stalking Nina's client has retained an unscrupulous local lawyer, Jeff Riesner, to attack the jackpot winnings using a legal maneuver called a Writ of Execution. The odds of Jessie ever collecting are starting to look hopeless. For Nina, what began as a fight for an underdog in federal court soon escalates into something very different and far more dangerous. Jessie has a secret, and she needs that money for a very good reason. By the time Nina discovers that Jessie is withholding vital information, it might be too late for her client and even for Nina herself. Because somewhere in the darkening Tahoe night, people are dying. A cold-blooded, obsessed killer will stop at nothing -- including execution-style murder -- to get that jackpot in a case where the Writ of Execution has become more than a legal maneuver; it's a death warrant. .
Synopsis
Perri O'Shaughnessy is the pen name for sisters Mary and Pamela O’Shaughnessy, who both live in California. They are the authors of eleven bestselling Nina Reilly novels as well as a collection of short crime fiction, Sinister Shorts .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Storbeck's
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 601985
- Title
- Writ of Execution
- Author
- O'Shaughnessy, Perri
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385334834
- ISBN 13
- 9780385334839
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- FICTION, MYSTERY, WOMEN, SLEUTHS, LEGAL, THRILLERS, SUSPENSE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Suspense;
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Georgetown, Texas
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