Perri O'Shaughnessy Books in Order

The series originally started with "Motion to Suppress". Then they wrote this book as a prequel to the series. We get to learn more about her background with her family. It covers the time when she was just a paralegal and going to law school at night. How she first met Paul van Wagoner. This is her first investigation into finding out the truth about a mysterious death and how it sets her on her career path.

What do you do when your client keeps confessing to the crime? She remembers attacking her husband with a statue in self defense. When she awakes he is gone and so is the statue - did she kill him? You hear her story and believe she is innocent. When you start digging deeper you find other people had motive as well. Someone out there wants to kill your client and they will kill you too, if you are in the way.

This was originally the first book in the Nina Reilly series. It is a good introduction to the character and the people in her life. It has an interesting case/mystery to solve.

A film maker has made a documentary about the disappearance of a girl. The parents unhappy about how they are portrayed file an invasion of privacy suit to stop the release of the film. Left shaken by her last case, Nina takes on the film makers case as she believes a noncriminal case will be safer. When her client turns up dead and an old acquaintance is implicated she finds it may not be as safe as she thought.

There has been two deaths in tragic accidents. One a woman is struck by a hit and run driver. The other Nina is hiking and sees Ray deBeers, a wife abuser, die after being struck by lightning. His father wants to exhume the body to make sure it wasn't foul play. Rays wife and teenage twins hire Nina to stop the disinterment. When the body goes missing you know there is more to the story. One twin is indicted and there is evidence against the other that could get them convicted. How far will Nina go to protect her clients?

This was the first book I read, and that got me hooked on the series.

A couple, who have lived together for years, built a company together worth $200 million. When he leaves her for a younger woman he says he doesn't owe her anything as they never married. Nina takes the woman's case, as she know if she wins it could make her a fortune. With that much money involved, it could drive someone to commit murder.

A riveting case her client is a 16 year old girl named Nikki and a friend of her son. Nina has to get to bottom of whether Nikki stole something from her Uncle and then proceed to kill him. Could a friend of your child be a murderer?

A young woman, who has been in hiding, hits the jackpot at a casino. To claim it she would have to give them her real name. Wanting to remain in hiding she asks a stranger for help. There is also the problem of the man who left the slot machine moments before. He is claiming he is entitled to the jackpot. The real question is why does this woman need to be in hiding? Could it have something to do with the mysterious death of her husband in Hawaii?

Nina herself is on trial in this one. Her sensitive case files were in her truck when it got stolen. Now someone is revealing the secrets contained in those documents. This could cause her to be disbarred. Who is trying to ruin the lives of her clients and Nina herself?

Nina heads to Caramel Valley. Two fires have burned through the valley, people start to suspect it is arson. Wish Whitefeather is named as the suspect after the third fire claims a fatality. Nina works to clear his name. As she digs deeper more questions are raised and a fourth fire is set.

Nina returns to Lake Tahoe. She starts on a case where a woman was shot and killed in casino robbery. The police don't have any suspects, the robbery victims lied about there identity, and the witnesses have fled the country. Nina will have to sift through it all to get to the truth.

Nina helps on a case involving Philip Strong, the owner of the ski lodge, in Acts of Malice. He gets a note from his son, Jim Strong, demanding his share of the money from the sale of the ski lodge. Nina believed Paul had killed him years before. To help her client would be putting Paul in jail. Unless Jim isn't as dead as she believed.

This is not part of the Nina Reilly series. However the character of Nina Reilly appears in it. This is a collection of short stories, one is written by the sisters together. The rest are written separately.

Ray's wife disappears. There is nothing to tell him if she is dead or alive. Suspected by the police and a friend of his wife, he needs to figure it out. As everyone else seems to be pointing at him.

It has a similar concept as Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, with a wife disappearing and the husband being suspected. However I think Gone Girl was a more compelling read.

Keeper of the Keys was alright but it didn't draw me in the way the Nina Reilly series does. Where you just don't want to put the book down.