The final judgment
Trials (Murder)Women lawyersFictionLegal storiesFamilies
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A woman lawyer returns to her family she has not seen for 20 years. She is Caroline Masters, the daughter of a New Hampshire judge, who agrees to defend her niece, accused of murder. All the ghosts from her past rise up, including the memory of the death of her mother and a man with whom she had an affair. A family drama by the author of Eyes of a Child.
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Trials (Murder)Women lawyersFictionLegal storiesFamiliesLarge type books
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New Hampshire
About the author
Richard North Patterson
February 22, 1947
Richard North Patterson (in Berkeley, California) is an American fiction writer and political commentator. He is a 1971 graduate of the Case Western Reserve University’s School of Law, and a recipient of that University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Alumni and its President’s Award for Excellence. He has served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio; a trial attorney for the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.; and was the SEC’s liaison to the Watergate Special Prosecutor. - Wikipedia He has written more than 20 novels, with the most recent one, Eden In Winter (2014), marking his retirement as a novelist.
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