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Deep, RIVETING END. NEEDS to be a movie.
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Dreadful! Stereotyped Characters, Soapy Plot
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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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Caught me by surprise....
- By Linda on 02-01-03
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Dark Lady
- By: Richard North Patterson
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In Dark Lady, Richard North Patterson displays the mastery of setting, psychology, and story that makes him unique among writers of suspense, and one of today's most original and enthralling novelists.
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1 out of 5 stars
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What a Yawner!
- By Lareina Dibben on 04-12-03
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In the Name of Honor
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3 out of 5 stars
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A good example...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exile
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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David Wolfe is an ambitious former homicide prosecutor who is planning to run for Congress. A political dinner for the Israeli Prime Minister is hosted by his current girlfriend, Carole Shorr, a liberal supporter of both the Palestinian and Israeli causes. But when David receives a call from Hana Ashawi, a Palestinian woman who was David's classmate at Harvard Law School, he is rattled. Hana was more than a peer - she was his lover.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deep, RIVETING END. NEEDS to be a movie.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 100
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dreadful! Stereotyped Characters, Soapy Plot
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 459
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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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Caught me by surprise....
- By Linda on 02-01-03
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- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4 out of 5 stars 20
In Dark Lady, Richard North Patterson displays the mastery of setting, psychology, and story that makes him unique among writers of suspense, and one of today's most original and enthralling novelists.
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1 out of 5 stars
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What a Yawner!
- By Lareina Dibben on 04-12-03
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- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 261
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4 out of 5 stars 85
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3 out of 5 stars
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A good example...
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Eden in Winter
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Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon his family and himself. As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death casts suspicions on those closest to him, Adam struggles to protect them from those who still suspect that his father was murdered by one of his kin.
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Necessary but a disappointment.
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It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job - and don't ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail.
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2 out of 5 stars
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One good disappointment
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Degree of Guilt
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Christopher Paget is a trial lawyer with a famous past. As a young investigator he brought down a president. It cost him his relationship with Mary Carelli. Fifteen years have passed while Paget raises their son, seeking privacy. Until a murder changes everything.
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14,568
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13,235
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13,156
In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo’s. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For 22 years, he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one was listening. He had no lawyer, no advocate on the outside.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Is Grisham getting serious about writing again?
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You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble. You don't stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home. She runs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's a nail biter!!!!
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The Spire
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Mark Darrow grew up in a small Ohio town with no real advantages beyond his intelligence and athletic ability. But thanks to the intervention of Lionel Farr - a professor at Caldwell, the local college - Darrow became an excellent student and, later, a superb trial lawyer. Now Farr asks his still-youthful protégé for a life-altering favor. An embezzlement scandal has threatened Caldwell's very existence - would Darrow consider becoming its new president?
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Great Book!
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Protect and Defend
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In Washington, a newly elected young president faces a test that will focus the national spotlight on abortion, parental consent, backroom politics, and the battle over one woman's nomination as chief justice of the Supreme Court. It's high-stakes drama as only Richard North Patterson can present it! Browse more Patterson.
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Future ability to bear children
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The Final Judgment
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Hours after 22-year-old Brett Allen finds her boyfriend brutally slain, she finds herself in police custody, the prime suspect. Her aunt, Caroline Masters, is summoned to act as her defense attorney. The result is a painful meeting with Brett, whom Caroline has not seen since infancy, and a confrontation with 3 people from whom she is deeply estranged: her first lover who is now the prosecutor, her half-sister, and most difficult of all, her domineering father. The story moves quickly now, opening into the police investigation and the courtroom. Yet the truths about herself and her family that Caroline ultimately uncovers are painful beyond the deepest doubts and shocking beyond the deepest fears that haunt her adult life - and make up the explosive core of the author's most powerful novel to date.
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Conviction
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Fifty-nine days. That's how long Rennell Price has to live after spending 15 years on death row for the horrifying sexual assault and murder of a girl whose body was found floating in San Francisco Bay. But attorney Terri Paget has dedicated her life to fighting for people like Rennell Price. This time, Terri has a client she believes may actually be innocent, which means that an unpunished killer may still be free.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Nature of
- By N. Richardson on 03-12-05
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The Deep, Deep Snow
- By: Brian Freeman
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,963
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,901
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Deputy Shelby Lake was abandoned as a baby, saved by a stranger who found her in the freezing cold. Now, years later, a young boy is missing - and Shelby is the one who must rescue a child. The only evidence of what happened to 10-year-old Jeremiah Sloan is a bicycle left behind on a lonely road. After a desperate search fails to locate him, the close bonds of Shelby’s hometown begin to fray under the weight of accusations and suspicion. Everyone around her is keeping secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get this while it's the daily deal!!!!
- By shelley on 06-20-19
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The Wedding Guest
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- By: Jonathan Kellerman
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,585
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,439
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LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a fine homicide detective, but when he needs to get into the mind of a killer, he leans on the expertise of his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. While Sturgis has a knack for piecing together the details of a crime, Delaware can decipher the darkest intents driving the most vicious of perpetrators. And there’s no better place for the doctor’s analytical skills to shine than a rowdy hall full of young men and women intoxicated on life and lust...and suddenly faced with the specter of death.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Preposterous Plot
- By wisconsinclark on 02-08-19
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No Safe Place
- By: Richard North Patterson
- Narrated by: Alexander Adams
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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When it comes to presidential campaigns, fiction can be more thrilling than truth. Such is the case in the extraordinary story of high-stakes presidential politics told in Richard North Patterson's No Safe Place. Browse more Patterson.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If Only It Had Happened That Way ...
- By Snoodely on 11-23-12
Publisher's Summary
But Grace is still haunted by a tragic mistake buried deep in his past, and his integrity will be put to the test in this most brutal of political contests, in which nothing in his past or present life is off-limits. Depicting contemporary power politics at its most ruthless, The Race takes on the most incendiary issues in America's culture wars: racism, religious fundamentalism, gay rights, and the rise of media monopolies with their own political and economic agendas.
As the pressure of the race intensifies, culminating in a heated showdown at a deadlocked party convention in New York City, Grace must come to terms with his presidential ambitions and decide just how much he's willing to sacrifice in order to achieve them.
Critic Reviews
"An absorbing and suspenseful account of a dirty run for the Republican presidential nomination." ( Publishers Weekly)
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Otis
- Marietta, GA, United States
- 11-04-07
The Race
Patterson has come full circle and I, for one, enjoyed his revisiting political campaigns. The first book I ever encountered by Patterson was "Private Screening" which once and for all set me on the road for all of his books. While his circumstances, put in a "real world" are far too hopeful to ever happen, Patterson so deftly establishes the imminent reality (as I borrow from Barthes), the reality is the text. So, to any Richard North Patterson fans, political aficionados, or those who simply enjoy a multi-level and tightly plotted book, this book will be a must.
14 of 16 people found this review helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- Shannon
- Ringwood, NJ, USA
- 03-26-08
Big fan disappointed
I'm a big Richard North Patterson fan and I enjoyed this book. However, the ending was somewhat predictable and disappointing. I was enthralled for 75% of the book but felt as if the author gave up near the end, at length.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Mike
- 10-03-09
conventional plot; long book
somewhat entertaining, but patterson takes too many liberties into implausibilities. and too long.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Carol B.
- 03-30-08
Good book!
I've read all of this author's books and enjoyed this one a lot. The ending was surprising but good. The whole book left me wishing events like this could really happen.
Good detail ... good character development ... good human interest sub story lines. This one had me sitting in the drive way, listening to "just a little more" before turning the key and getting out of the car.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Myrna
- Sequim, WA, United States
- 01-14-13
An inside glimpse into presidential politics
Would you consider the audio edition of The Race to be better than the print version?
I always enjoy the audible editions more because it's easier to relate to the characters, but I have not read the print version of this one so I can't compare.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Corey Grace. I wish he was really running for President
Which character – as performed by Michael Boatman – was your favorite?
Corey Grace was so believeable.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
In a couple of places it made me really mad, but, no, I didn't laugh or cry.
Any additional comments?
I have enjoyed almost all of Richard North Patterson's books. The only one I had problems with, and it was more subject matter than anything else, was "Degree of Guilt."
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Dot
- 05-20-08
The Race Comment
If I want a political diatribe I will listen to Air America or IEB - but when I pick up fiction I do not want to be lambasted with Mr. Patterson's personal political views Maybe Mr. Patterson thinks his Alter Ego, Corey Grace shoul run for President. After all he is handsome (no woman can resist him) articulate, highly intelligent and can solve all the problems in the U.S. and the world. Since Mr. Patterson is SO SMART may be HE should run for office.
4 of 9 people found this review helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- surly
- 04-07-08
Gave up!
After listening to half the book there appeared to be no real story to sink your teeth into, and I gave up caring what happened to the characters, and stopped listening.
2 of 5 people found this review helpful
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Overallout of 5 stars
- Denise
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- 11-03-07
The Race is rather slow
Very slow moving and dull
2 of 10 people found this review helpful