Caroline Masters
By Richard North Patterson
(Ballantine Books, Mass Market Paperback, 9780345444929, 512pp.)
Publication Date: November 28, 2000
Categories: Thrillers
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Long estranged from her blue-blooded New England family, attorney Caroline Masters is summoned home to defend her niece against charges of murder. Police found twenty-two-year-old Brett Allen blood-splattered and incoherent near the scene of the crime, the weapon covered with her fingerprints.
Caroline has doubts of her own about Brett's innocence. But as the sensational trial heats up, she'll find disturbing inconsistencies in the testimony of the prosecution's star witness and find herself facing some of the challenges of her life and career--from trusting her former lover, state prosecutor Jackson Watts, to risking the federal judgeship she's worked her whole life for, to exposing a dark family secret that could save her niece or destroy them both.
Richard North Patterson studied fiction writing with Jesse Hill Ford at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has written eleven novels, including the international bestsellers Dark Lady, Eyes of a Child, Degree of Guilt, Silent Witness, No Safe Place, and the upcoming Protect and Defend. Patterson lives with his wife, Laurie, and their family in San Francisco and on Martha's Vineyard.
"Compelling . . . Very possibly Patterson's best."
--USA Today
"DAZZLING . . . THE PAGES ALMOST SEEM TO TURN THEMSELVES. . . . The plot culminates in a classic courtroom confrontation."
--San Francisco Chronicle
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