Richard North Patterson. Quercus, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-62365-147-3
In the middling conclusion to bestseller Patterson’s Blaine trilogy (after 2013’s Loss of Innocence), an avid prosecutor believes that someone pushed author Benjamin Blaine from a cliff on Martha’s Vineyard, and wants to charge Ben’s gay son, Teddy,
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Richard North Patterson. Quercus, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-62365-092-6
Thriller author Patterson ventures into mainstream waters with mixed results in this follow-up to 2012’s Fall from Grace, the second entry in a projected trilogy. In June 1968, 21-year-old Whitney Dane, a child of privilege, is looking forward to...
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Richard North Patterson. Scribner, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1705-4
Legal questions hang on every twist and turn of this tightly woven nonlegal thriller, bestseller Patterson’s best novel since 2009’s Eclipse. After 10 years away from home, Adam Blaine returns to Martha’s Vineyard after his estranged father, world-fa
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Richard North Patterson, Scribner, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1680-4
Patterson (In the Name of Honor) brings his usual encyclopedic research to this exploration of what is quickly becoming a tiresome thriller subgenre, the Arab terrorist with a nuclear bomb. History lectures and political lessons tend to slow what is
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Richard North Patterson, Author Villard Books $16.45 (322p) ISBN 978-0-394-54275-1
Patterson's latest (The Lasko Tangent, Escape the Night) is a crackerjack thriller. First a rock superstar's manager and then a newspaper mogul's wife are kidnapped; the latter event is videotaped and sent to a cable news network. ""Phoenix,'' the...
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Richard North Patterson, Author Ballantine Books $7.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-345-40761-0
Patterson's legal thriller of a lawyer defending her niece against a murder charge was a PW bestseller for seven weeks. (Jan.)
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Richard North Patterson, Author Ballantine Books $7.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-345-38184-2
This absorbing but overstuffed courtroom thriller revolves around a California attorney's efforts to defend a TV newswoman who kills a famous novelist. (Jan.)
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Richard North Patterson, Author Ballantine Books $7.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-345-40476-3
The murders of the respective lovers of two friends are separated by 28 years; now one must return to their hometown to defend the other. (Oct.)
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Richard North Patterson, Author Ballantine Books $7.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-345-38613-7
Patterson's latest legal thriller--featuring many of the same characters as his previous Degree of Guilt--spent 10 weeks on PW's bestseller list. (Jan.)
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Richard North Patterson, Author . Ballantine $27.95 (611p) ISBN 978-0-345-45017-3
Gun control and tort reform are the thorny issues tackled in this political drama, with Patterson hero Kerry Kilcannon ensconced in the White House and planning his marriage to former television journalist Lara Costello. Kilcannon (last glimpsed in...
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Richard North Patterson, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $26.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-679-45044-3
U.S. President Kerry Kilcannon, introduced by Patterson in 1998's No Safe Place, returns for another political dogfight in this meticulously researched, sharply observed tension builder about a Supreme Court nominee mired in the abortion debate....
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Richard North Patterson, Author . Holt $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8773-4
This thoughtful if less than suspenseful thriller from bestseller Patterson (Eclipse
) charts the impact of the brutal murder of black coed Angela Hall at Caldwell College in Wayne, Ohio, on gifted athlete Mark Darrow, who discovered the body and...
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Richard North Patterson, Author . Random $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-345-45019-7
After focusing on gun control and tort reform (in Balance of Power
) and late-term abortion and Supreme Court nomination (in Protect and Defend
), Patterson takes on the death penalty, exploring its uncertainties and injustices from the perspective...
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Richard North Patterson, Author . Holt $26 (576p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7947-0
Bestseller Patterson's new thriller with its focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been overtaken by events (there's no mention of Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005 or the recent fighting across the...
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Richard North Patterson, Author . Holt $26 (339p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7948-7
Leaving courtroom thrills behind, Patterson crafts an absorbing and suspenseful account of a dirty run for the Republican presidential nomination. Sen. Corey Grace, a Republican from Ohio, became a public hero during the Gulf War after surviving the
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Richard North Patterson, Author . Holt $26 (369p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8772-7
This stellar legal thriller from bestseller Patterson (Exile
) both informs and entertains. On the eve of getting a divorce, Damon Pierce, a 40-year-old partner in a huge San Francisco, Calif., law firm, who specializes in international litigation,...
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Richard North Patterson, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-679-45043-6
Patterson (Degree of Guilt; No Safe Place) has advanced considerably from his earlier, rather glib commercial thrillers. His world now seems much more somber, his characters more ridden with real-world angst; only a tendency to melodramatic...
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Richard North Patterson, Author . Holt $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8774-1
Bestseller Patterson (Eclipse
) explores the concept of honor—and how men and women can sometimes embody and sometimes blacken this lofty concept—in this riveting legal thriller. When Lt. Brian McCarran shoots and kills his superior...
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Richard North Patterson, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42064-4
This big courtroom thriller, which comes garlanded with hefty foreign sales and a huge first printing, is being touted as the best of its kind since Scott Turow's fiction debut. It does not survive such a comparison well, having none of the density,
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Richard North Patterson, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $24 (593p) ISBN 978-0-679-42988-3
Patterson has recycled some of the characters and one of the subplots from last year's hit, Degree of Guilt, into a new novel that can still be enjoyed without knowledge of the previous one. Young Latina lawyer Teresa Peralta, aide and lover to...
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Richard North Patterson, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $25 (437p) ISBN 978-0-679-42989-0
Patterson's previous bestsellers (Degree of Guilt and Eyes of a Child) were closely linked by shared characters, but his new thriller is tied to those two through only a tenuous bond--its heroine, Caroline Masters, who was the judge in Degree. Here,
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Richard North Patterson, Author Random House Inc $25.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-679-45040-5
Like its predecessors, Patterson's latest novel (after The Final Judgment) evinces endless admiration for the ornateness of the law, and is crowded with complex characters whose troubles will draw readers deeply into their story. This hypnotic tale...
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Richard North Patterson, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $25.95 (497p) ISBN 978-0-679-45042-9
Patterson (The Final Judgment; Silent Witness; etc.) is a skilled fabricator of courtroom dramas who here ventures well beyond his usual subject matter with mixed but still highly entertaining results. His protagonist, Kerry Kilcannon, is a young,...
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Richard North Patterson, read by Julia Whelan. AudioGO, unabridged, nine CDs, 10.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-4829-2627-9
Twenty-two-year-old Whitney Dane is spending the summer of 1968 at her family’s mansion on Martha’s Vineyard, planning her upcoming marriage to Peter Brooks. But everything changes when she meets embittered but charismatic Ben Blaine, who is facing...
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Richard North Patterson, read by Dennis Boutsikaris. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 9.25 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-4437-2
Patterson's latest thriller unravels a sordid knot of family secrets following the suspicious death of prominent author Ben Blaine on the island of Martha's Vineyard. As suspense builds gradually, narrator Dennis Boutsikaris offers a restrained...
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Richard North Patterson, read by John Bedford Lloyd, Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 15 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-0947-4
A dramatic military trial is at center stage in this engrossing mystery. Lieut. Brian McCarran, a member of a distinguished military family, is on trial for shooting and killing his commanding officer. Capt. Paul Terry, an excellent trial lawyer who
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Richard North Patterson, Author, Peter Francis James, Read by , read by Peter Francis James. Macmillan Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0609-1
Patterson, a former lawyer turned bestselling fiction author, returns with his latest thriller featuring Damon Pierce, a down-and-out lawyer who finds fresh purpose when contacted by a former lover whose husband is being held captive in the West...
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Richard North Patterson, Author, Michael Boatman, Read by , read by Michael Boatman. Macmillan Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0181-2
Sen. Corey Grace is the most charismatic and compassionate conservative Republican to ever run for president. He believes in women's choice, gay rights, gun control and stem cell research. Ordinarily, these would be suicidal platform points, but the
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Richard North Patterson, Author, R. M. Paterson, Author, R. M. Patterson, Author Chelsea Green Publishing Company $12.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-930031-26-8
In 1927, British-born writer and adventurer Patterson braved the Nahanni, ``this strange river with the beautiful name,'' in rugged Northwest Canada, where he was prospecting for long-rumored gold, investigating the mysterious murders of an earlier...
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Richard North Patterson, Author, Patricia Kalember, Read by Random House Audio Publishing Group $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-375-40829-8
Patterson's signature style of crime suspense depends heavily on the terse descriptive passages he uses to render settings and characters. This makes his work adapt especially well to audio, since the listener is constantly being told exactly what's
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Richard North Patterson. Quercus, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-68144-165-8
In this compilation of essays originally written for the Huffington Post, thriller writer Patterson (Eden in Winter) scathingly covers the 2016 presidential campaign. In our current tribal silos, those who voted Democratic will eat it up; dupporters
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Richard North Patterson. Post Hill, $30 (560p) ISBN 978-1-637588-06-2
Patterson (Eden in Winter) returns with an earnest if overwrought legal drama. Malcolm Hill—a young Black man whose mother, Allie, a Georgia voting rights advocate who will remind readers of Stacey Abrams and whose work has attracted death threats...
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