Eden in Winter

ISBN: 1623651476

Author: Patterson, Richard North

Condition: New

Number one New York Times best-selling author Richard North Patterson, author of more than twenty novels, including Degree of Guilt and Silent Witness, returns with the dramatic conclusion to the Blaine trilogy: Eden in Winter, the final volume that completes the story begun in Fall from Grace and Loss of Innocence.Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Marthas Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaines will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon his family and himself.As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaines 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.But the sternest test of all is Adams proximity to Carla Pacelli-his late fathers mistress; and a woman who, despite being pivotal to his familys plight, Adam finds himself increasingly drawn to. The closer he gets to this beautiful, mysterious woman, the further Adam feels from his troubles. Yet the closer he also comes to revealing the secrets hes strived to conceal, and condemning the people hes so hard fought to protect.An acknowledged master of the courtroom thriller, Pattersons Blaine trilogy, a bold and surprising departure from his past novels, is a complex family drama pulsing with the tumult of the time and dripping with summer diversions, youthful passion and ideals, class tensions, and familial disruptions. (Library Journal)