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Richard North Patterson is fascinated with multi-layered relationships and with the intricacies of establishing innocence and guilt too. But Patterson, a former trial lawyer turned best-selling author, sets his latest book in a small contemporary midwest town.
The drama and suspense in Silent Witness, narrated by Boyd Gaines, hangs more on the slow discovery of who ultimately did what to whom than on courtroom pyrotechnics. When Tony Lord, a prominent defense attorney in San Francisco, is called back to his hometown by one of his closest high school friends to defend her husband, his other closest friend now accused of murdering a teenage girl, he knows that his own painful past and the murder of his 17-year-old sweetheart 27 years ago will be dredged up.
As this skillfully plotted story weaves back and forth in time, Patterson looks closely at how the loyalties and passions, secrets and lies of the past, resonate in the present.
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