Nina Reilly is known for taking on the underdog cases, the kind that can make -- or break -- her one-woman practice. But the case of her newest client who gives her name as Jessie Potter seems like a simple money matter. Jessie has hit a huge slot machine jackpot, and the men in suits are waiting to hand her the check just as soon as she tells them her real identity. With time running out, Nina helps her client devise a brilliant plan to collect the money while keeping her true identity a secret. Unfortunately, powerful interests have lined up to grab the money. The wealthy man stalking Jessie has hired Tahoe's most unscrupulous attorney, Jeff Riesner, to file a Writ of Execution -- a legal maneuver that will attempt to prevent Jessie Potter from collecting her jackpot. And there's another claimant, too: the enraged man who was playing the slot machine right before it hit. He insists the jackpot is rightfully his, and he doesn't mind going outside the law to get it.

The case plunges Nina Reilly into the shadowy world of high-stakes money and high-stakes corruption. And, somewhere in the darkening Tahoe night, people are dying. A cold-blooded, obsessed killer will stop at nothing to get that jackpot, including execution-style murder, in a case where the Writ of Execution has become more than a legal maneuver; it's a death warrant.

Sweeping fromthe glittering casinos of Tahoe to the drama of a packed courtroom to the darkness of a woman's secret past, "Writ of Execution" is spellbinding entertainment -- Perri O'Shaughnessy's most intricate and compelling novel to date.