Degree of Guilt

by Richard North Patterson

In this fictional murder trial, the defendant's claim of self-defence is slowly undermined and the truth is gradually revealed. The defence attorney is faced with an inescapable dilemma of ethics and emotion, as the secrets of his own life become intertwined with the trial itself.

• ISBN10: 034538184X
• ISBN13: 9780345381842
• Publish Date: 4 December 1993 (first published 4 January 1993)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 10
• Language: English

Reviews

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There’s a blurb on the front of this book that says it’s “compulsively readable”. That’s no lie. Every time I picked up this book, I had a hard time putting it back down again. It is chocked full of conflicted characters, chief of them all being Christopher Paget. From the very beginning, you’re never quite sure what exactly happened, and even at the end you continue to wonder… Was that the truth? Is Mary Carelli capable of telling the truth? And is knowing the truth always important?

It turns out that this is the second book in a series of four, but it stand very well by itself. It does have a great deal to do with the previous book, but all of the pertinent events were re-explained. This is only the second book by Richard North Patterson that I’ve read, and I don’t know how he’s escaped my notice for so long. Excellent, excellent read.