Unlucky in Law

Nina Reilly takes on the most dangerous and difficult case of her career in New York Times bestselling author

Perri O'Shaughnessy's latest thriller. An ingenious blend of forensic science, history, and gripping suspense,

Unlucky in Law pits the tough but compassionate attorney against the most unbeatable adversary of all: the

law.

Nina has just received a last-minute call from her old boss and mentor in Monterey County, California, where

she is enjoying the breathtaking scenery and spending time with her boyfriend, P.I. Paul van Wagoner. Klaus

Pohlmann is in desperate straits and begs Nina to take over a seemingly unwinnable case: A luckless two-time

felon named Stefan Wyatt has robbed a grave and made off with the long-buried bones of a Russian émigré.

When he is caught and arrested, further devastating evidence found in the grave suggests that Stefan is guilty

of a far more deadly crime.

A young woman, a classmate of Stefan's, has been killed, and he is accused of her murder. Now, as a result

of California's Third Strike law, Wyatt is looking at twenty-five years to life whether he's convicted of grand theft

or murder. Either way, he's in big trouble.

With her client's blood DNA found in the dead woman's apartment, Nina faces an uphill battle. Suspecting that

her hapless client has been set up, Nina brings in a brilliant forensic pathologist who comes up with a startling

theory about the case that could rewrite a crucial page of European history. As the evidence mounts against

Nina's client, Paul launches his own investigation into the shadowy past of the two-decades-old skeleton. But

long-held secrets nearly get him killed and reveal a more insidious evil at work-and an extraordinary story

dating back to tsarist Russia and the Romanov court. As Wyatt edges closer to the unluckiest verdict of his

young life, Nina makes an astounding discovery that just might save her client-or expose a killer who could

bury them all.