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, whereher love life took a tumble, Nina has returned to her Tahoe law office with herold friends Sandy Whitefeather and Sandy's son, Wish. It isn't long before shehas a new client whose wife was shot and killed during a casino-districtrobbery two years before. The police have no suspects, and the robbery victims,three students, lied about their identities and are hiding outside Californiaand the reach of the court. Two of the witnesses have fled to a village not far from thehome of Bob's father, Kurt Scott, in Germany. As Nina tries to unravel themystery of one violent Tahoe night, a harrowing journey begins - one that takesher from the dark underworld of Tahoe's casinos to the halls of a prestigiousEast Coast university to Europe and an emotional reunion with Kurt. As oldfeelings are rekindled, Nina's case turns violent. Everyone has something tohide - the brilliant but unstable mathematics student who has made anastonishing discovery, the owner of a motel where the shooting took place, andthe shooter, who has turned the whole case into a gigantic lie.
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