Eden in Winter

Number one New York Times bestselling author RichardNorth Patterson-the author of more than twenty novels, including Degree ofGuilt and Silent Witness-returns with the dramatic conclusion tothe Blaine trilogy: Eden in Winter,the final volume that completes the story begun in Fall from Grace.Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death ofhis father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of AdamBlaine's will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon hisfamily and himself.As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death castssuspicions on those closest to him, Adam struggles to protect them from thosewho still suspect that his father was murdered by one of his kin.But the sternest test of all is Adam's proximity to CarlaPacelli-his late father's mistress and a woman to whom, despite her pivotal role in his family's plight, Adam finds himself increasingly drawn. The closer hegets to this beautiful, mysterious woman, the further Adam feels from histroubles, yet the closer he also comes to revealing the secrets he's striven toconceal and condemning the people he's fought so hard to protect.An acknowledged master of the courtroom thriller,Patterson's Blaine trilogy, a bold and surprising departure from his pastnovels, is a complex family drama pulsing with the tumult of the time and"e;dripping with summer diversions, youthful passion and ideals, class tensions,and familial disruptions"e; (Library Journal).