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When the body of nine-year old Thuy Sen is found in the San Francisco Bay, the police quickly charge Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Richard North Patterson
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 500
- Publisher
- Macmillan, Random House, Books On Tape
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781588364432
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“IN FIFTY-NINE DAYS, IF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAD ITS WAY, the man inside the Plexiglas booth would die by lethal injection.”
Richard North Patterson (in Berkeley, California) is an American fiction writer and political commentator. He is a 1971 graduate of the Case Western Reserve University’s School of Law, and a recipient of that University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Alumni and its President’s Award for Excellence. He has served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio; a trial attorney for the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.; and was the SEC’s liaison to the Watergate Special Prosecutor. - Wikipedia He has written more than 20 novels, with the most recent one, Eden In Winter (2014), marking his retirement as a novelist.
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