We have come to know Nina Reilly over the course of nearly a dozen thrillers written by a sister duo.  Nina has moved between Tahoe and Monterey, always working as a single mom lawyer.  Now in this prequel, Show No Fear , we move back to 1990 and meet a younger Nina just starting her law school studies.  Her mother is dealing with her divorce and a disfiguring disease.  The man who had been an absent father of Nina’s son, reappears with demands she doesn’t want to meet.  In the back of the reader’s mind are questions – don’t we know something that Nina doesn’t know? And Paul Wagoner will come to mean much more to her in later books.  This is an engaging read, filling in the back story to characters we’ve come to care about over the course of the series.