Motion to Suppress - Tapa dura

Starting life over in Lake Tahoe after losing both her husband and job, attorney Nina Reilly takes up the defense of a cocktail waitress accused of murdering her husband, in a shocking case that tests Reilly's faith in the law and in her client. A first novel. 60,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

confessed. Now her only hope is a lawyer who believes she lied.

Misty Patterson only remembered the fight, the polar bear statue she used as a bludgeon, a trail of blood, and the comatose sleep that followed. When she awoke, her husband and the statue were missing. Only the blood was left. She had come to attorney Nina Reilly's office seeking a divorce. But when Anthony Patterson was found on the bottom of the frigid lake, Misty needed a miracle.

Barely a week before, Nina Reilly had been a happily married San Francisco lawyer. Suddenly she's a single parent, opening a shoestring practice in Lake Tahoe. And now Nina finds herself embroiled in a case that's going to change everything she believes about the law.  It's going to rock everything Misty Patterson believes about herself. And it's going to give both women a look at the damning piece of evidence that will challenge their faith in each other. Or give them their one and only chance to win...