02488cam a2200325 4500 551145876 TxAuBib 20071008120000.0 050328s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005047026 9780385337953 0385337957 (OCoLC)58919424 DLC DLC HEV TxAuBib O'Shaughnessy, Perri. Case of lies / Perri O'Shaughnessy. New York : Delacorte Press, 2005. 390 p. : map ; 25 cm. Map on lining papers. For Nina Reilly, the mountain town of Lake Tahoe is home. Its where she forged a successful career as a tough, resourceful attorneyand raised her teenage son, Bob, alone. Back from a stint in Monterey, where her love life took a tumble, Nina has returned to her Tahoe law office with her old friends Sandy Whitefeather and Sandys son, Wish. It isnt long before she has a new client whose wife was shot and killed during a casino-district robbery two years before. The police have no suspects, and the robbery victims, three students, lied about their identities and are hiding outside California and the reach of the court.Two of the witnesses have fled to a village not far from the home of Bobs father, Kurt Scott, in Germany. As Nina tries to unravel the mystery of one violent Tahoe night, a harrowing journey beginsone that takes her from the dark underworld of Tahoes casinos to the halls of a prestigious East Coast university to Europe and an emotional reunion with Kurt. As old feelings are rekindled, Ninas case turns violent. Everyone has something to hidethe brilliant but unstable mathematics student who has made an astonishing discovery, the owner of a motel where the shooting took place, and the shooter, who has turned the whole case into a gigantic lie. Filled with all the rich drama, stunning surprises, and ingenious twists we have come to expect from this incomparable storyteller, Case of Lies will grab you from the very first page and never let you go as it speeds to its incredible conclusion. 20071008. Reilly, Nina (Fictitious character) Fiction. Women lawyers Fiction. Tahoe, Lake, Region (Calif. and Nev) Fiction. Mystery fiction. Legal stories. TXFPL