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Silent Witness

By: Richard North Patterson
Narrated by: T. J. Edwards
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Publisher's summary

A main selection of the Literary Guild

Silent Witness begins in 1967, in a small Midwestern town. Seventeen-year-old Tony Lord, Lake City's star athlete, seems destined for great things. His driving ambition is precisely what attracts Alison Taylor, the daughter of the town's leading family, and it is what sets Tony apart from his two closest friends: Sam Robb and Sam's girl, Sue Cash.

Suddenly, everything changes. Alison Taylor is brutally murdered, and Tony is the number one suspect. The town turns against him. His friendship with Sam is destroyed. And Tony leaves Lake City, vowing never to return.

Twenty-seven years later, an urgent phone call from Sue changes Tony's life once more. For Tony Lord is now a San Francisco lawyer - a relentless advocate dedicated to the defense of his clients. Sue's plea for help is one he cannot ignore: Her husband, Sam Robb, now the vice principal of Lake City High School, is suspected of the murder of a female student. In seeking to save him, Tony must confront not only the fear that Sam is a murderer, but the concealed passions and buried truths that underlie Alison's death so long ago.

©1997 Richard North Patterson (P)1996 by Random House Audio Publishing, Inc., All Rights Reserved Under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions, Reproduced by Arrangement with Random House Audio Publishing, Inc.

Critic reviews

"This generation's best writer of legal thrillers.... His strongest fiction to date." (Entertainment Weekly)

"Enthralling.... The denouement is powerful." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

"Intense courtroom drama.... As startling as the bang of a gavel." (People)

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to much explicit sex

Wish I had some warning. This could also sell in the adult section, beyond that it's also a weak
and very predictable plot. 18 hours waisted.

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Hard to suspend disbelief

I did not find the characters or many of the events to be believable or interesting. I thought the ending was predictable. This was a yawner, but not the worst audiobook I have heard.

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