For Nina Reilly, the mountain town of Lake Tahoe is home. It's where she
forged a successful career as a tough, resourceful attorney-and 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 Sandy's son, Wish. It isn't 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 Bob's father,
Kurt Scott, in Germany. As Nina tries to unravel the mystery of one
violent Tahoe night, a harrowing journey begins-one that takes her from
the dark underworld of Tahoe's casinos to the halls of a prestigious
East Coast university to Europe and an emotional reunion with Kurt.
As old feelings are rekindled, Nina's case turns violent. Everyone has
something to hide-the 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 and never let you go as it speeds to its incredible
conclusion.
