Degree of Guilt by Richard North Patterson

Was it the prosecutor who was also looking for the two missing tapes? If so, why didn't she find them? It would have been better, I think, if the rather sympathetic judge had suspected that Christopher had the tapes in question, but she never suggests this to be the case. I also can't say it's exactly wrapped up in a satisfactory manner. I know plenty of people love courtroom drama and there is some meat here, though it takes about 400 pages to get there and one often gets the feeling proceedings are just wandering around in circles. The legal stuff is all right, though extremely repetitive, and would probably go over well in a movie. No need to describe the plot as the synopsis tells you the facts you need to know about this 700-page monster that ambles back and forth between legal and domestic drama. This was a bit of a windy affair, I thought, although there were some unsettling accounts of rape and female degradation.

With each shocking revelation, Paget is forced to question his defense, his ethics, and the whole legal system.īecause no one, not even the judge, is completely innocent.

Now she has to prove it in a court of law-with her former lover acting as her attorney…Ĭhristopher Paget is one of the top lawyers in the country.īut defending the mother of his son in the trial of the decade, he begins to have doubts. TV journalist Mary Carelli admits that she shot and killed Mark Ransom, one of the world’s most famous authors. Degree of Guilt (Christopher Paget #2), Richard North Patterson

Degree of Guilt by Richard North Patterson