![]() ![]() But as Caroline focuses on a shifty state witness and rough-and-ready police procedures, promise for a lesser verdict than murder begins to glimmer. At first, Brett's case looks hopeless-the killing was committed in the woods at night when she was drunk and disoriented, and there is no evidence that anyone else was there. This task is made no easier by the fact that the prosecutor in the case was once Caroline's lover, and still yearns for her. But when her niece, Brett, is arrested for the murder of her slippery boyfriend, Caroline-despite the risk to her own career-is drawn by the young woman's plight into acting as her defense counsel. Court of Appeals, and as a determined woman who seems to have left sentiment, and her New Hampshire patriarch of a father, far in her past. Here, the reader meets Caroline as a candidate for the U.S. Patterson's previous bestsellers (Degree of Guilt and Eyes of a Child) were closely linked by shared characters, but his new thriller is tied to those two through only a tenuous bond-its heroine, Caroline Masters, who was the judge in Degree. ![]()
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