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    Final Judgment

    Written by Richard North Patterson

    Narrated by Lisa Banes

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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 22-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 toughest 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 . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 4, 2000
    ISBN9780375418105
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    Final Judgment
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    Richard North Patterson

    Richard North Patterson is the author of over twenty bestselling and critically acclaimed novels. Formerly a trial lawyer, he was the SEC liaison to the Watergate special prosecutor and has served on the boards of several Washington advocacy groups. He lives in Martha's Vineyard, San Francisco, and Cabo San Lucas with his wife, Dr. Nancy Clair.

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    • 4/5
      An emotional "who done it", once again RNP presents us with a story so realistic and so captivating that it is hard to put down. I liked how he interweaved the past with the happenings of the future. Not overdone but, enough that it kept things interesting.
    • 3/5
      This murder mystery is a combination mystery and family drama. The mystery is pretty good, but the family drama component, while well conceived, caused the narrative to drag at crucial moments, I found.Also, Patterson has, at least in this book, two narrative tics that I found increasingly distracting. First, the adverb "utterly," which should probably never be used, is used here too frequently. Characters stand "utterly still," or the night is "utterly quiet." Once during a novel, OK. Twice, perhaps. More than that is utterly too much. But worse, many, many times during the novel, at least two dozen, the protagonist realizes things, or impressions come to her, "all at once." As in, "All at once, Caroline realized that this girl was looking at life in a new way." "All at once, it came to Caroline that the prosecutor knew no more than she did about . . . " That sort of stuff drives me nuts and drains away my ability to enjoy a book.The mystery and even the characters were interesting, although I must say I had the ending pegged pretty early on. Overall, for me, an OK murder myster. For my taste, Patterson needed to tighten up the flashbacks and tidy up those cliches. Hard core mystery genre buffs may be more forgiving than I of these flaws, though.
    • 4/5
      A Caroline Masters novel. Where Caroline goes back to roots in New Hampshire where a young girl is accused of the murder of a boy friend. The novel addresses Caroline's youth and a love affair. The girl Greta is in reality her daughter. The plot involves the father and Caroline's sister (now Bret's parent). In the end the Caroline's father is the killer trying to protest his granddaughter from the person being murder. Grandpa kills him self.