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the prologue, Richie Arias is forced by an "intruder" to write a suicide note and eat his gun, During the rest of the novel there is a thorough police investigation that points to murder, Finally there is an complex trial during which all the secrets and motives come out, Good story and interesting characters, You follow the court case of Christopher Paget who is being accused of murdering his girlfriends' husband, Everything points to him between the secrecy, the blood stain, the accusation that his son molested his girlfriends daughter,

His lawyer defends him the best she can with eyewitnesses popping up, it becomes difficult, In the end the jury makes the decision, and the loose ends become known, From Follett: A man has been found dead, a gun still wedged in his mouth, It looks like Ricardo Arias killed himself, . . but the physical evidence tells a different story, The police investigation turns up all sorts of troubling data a bitter estrangement between Ricardo and his wife, Terri an ugly custody battle over their six year old daughter, Elena charges of child molestation.
And before long there's a murder suspect: San Francisco defense attorney and political hopeful Christopher Paget,

But where's the motive It could be that Paget is Terri's new lover, Or that Paget's own teenage son is the one who's accused of abusing Elena, But a series of long hidden secrets on both sides of the case are slowly rising to the surface, . . and threaten to explode in the courtroom, where the final verdict will be delivered, Where the truth about what really happened to Ricardo Arias will either be revealed or buried for good, . .

Long time since I have caught up with Chris Paget,

I guessed the murderer within the first few chapters and I was right, Not sure if it was obvious to everyone else as well as the book is not a whodunit but a court case drama showing how the evidence can be shown in different light by the defence and prosecution.
This one kept me guessing, right up to the end, about whodunit,
Full of twists and turning amid mounting tension, just the way I like a thriller to be, An engrossing intro where we learn about what scum the victim was an unputdownable courtroom section and the final mystery solved at the end, I was heartbroken with Rosas story and was thrilled to read her as the ultimate angel of death, twice, I confess that I couldnt decide between giving this bookor, I went back and forth and finally settled on four, The courtroom scenes were to a nonlawyer like me realistic and believable, They were most interesting to read,

In a nutshell, a murder has occurred, Maybe the murdered man deserved it, So, who did it Naturally, there are twists and turns, The end. While the storyline was fairly interesting, I found the writing to be drawn out and tedious at best, I finished the book but only read two thirds of the narrative, After the first few chapters, I found the book less tedious when I skipped over needless passages that added nothing but boredom to this novel, This book was neat. I have read the true crime novels and you didn't get a lot of background info on the individual person, It was point by point the details of how the crime went down, And the cases. And no back ground info, This book gave you a good back ground story on their characters, You got to feel for them, You got to figure out their history and their lives and everything good, THEN you heard about the trial, Of course, it's not real so things that happened wouldn't be allowed in real court, But, it was almost exactly what I was looking for when I started reading the true crime novels, And the ending wasn't a total let down, Maybe I should stop being so picky, It was a long book and sometimes I kinda felt a drag, . . But I was easily able to overcome that and was able to finish it, So, I would recommend this book to people who like mysteries,.
Eyes of a Child was a nice touch to Christopher and Terris relationship,
I like the plot but the story in all was quite short and too sudden,
There was very little of courtroom action and almost none investigation,
The case could be fun but its not so hard to guess,
The third in a series featuring Christopher Paget, this is an excellent read, Christopher's associate, Teri Peralta, leaves her manipulative and abusive husband, Child custody issues arise and suspicions of child molestation begin to infuse the story, As Teri and Christopher begin a relationship, complications seem to destroy their chances of creating a stable family for their children, Christopher's fifteen year old son Carlos becomes a central figure in the accusations and suspicions, Richie, Teri's estranged husband, is murdered and Christopher is arrested and tried for the crime, The book is fairly clued, which means there's no excuse for not realizing the real perpetrator of the crimes for there is more than one, A very entertaining and engrossing book, This book was long but it kept me interested the entire time! It's been a long time since I've read a book by Richard North Patterson, a favorite author of mine decades ago.
Eyes of a Child was published inand it is a gem!
This is a mystery and a courtroom drama, It is about the suicide or murder of a man who was recently separated from his wife of six years, The estranged couple was in a bitter custody battle, The wife became quickly romantically involved with a highprofile lawyer Chris Paget with whom she had already been working with, The exhusband is found dead with a gun at his side and a suicide note nearby, Chris Paget is suspected and goes on trial, Was it a suicide If not, is Paget guilty Was it something else, like a drug deal gone bad
This is a lengthy book, but not full of fluff.
Very few characters, but the reader gets strong impressions of all of them, A very interesting plot. i was on the edge of my seat after the firstpages set everything up, The samehour quality performce for less

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A stunning new courtroom drama from the author of the nationwide bestsellers Final Judgment, Silent Witness, and Degree of Guilt,

In San Francisco, a dead man discovered amid evidence that might confirm suicide but strongly suggests murder,   An investigation that uncovers the viscous custody fight he waged with his estranged wife over their young daughter: his extorting threats, his accusations of sexual abuse of the child,   A grandjury indictment for murder handed down to his estranged wife's new lover, a highprofile defense attorney,   A trial, sensational from the very start: the attorneyturneddefendant's motives for murder made clear in the courtroom and in the outforblood press his alibi so quickly dismantled that even his son begins to doubt him.
  Finally, the revelations in the courtroom overshadowed by what threatens to remain hidden: in the little girl's tangled loyalties, in the defendant's damning refusal to testify on his own behalf, and in the details of a childhood trauma that haunts his lover's adult life.
March

This was the third book in the Readers' Digest Condensed book volume, and I found it an ingenious legal thriller and a murder mystery.


The sequence of events are mainly witnessed from the perspective of Teresa Peralta Terri, a legal assistant to a defense attorney Christopher Paget Chris, who aspires to be a senator.
Terri is fighting a bitter divorce and custody case with her husband Ricardo Arias, and in the meantime develops a romantic relationship with her boss, Chris, Terri and Chris are on a vacation in Italy when they learn that Ricardo has been murdered, possibly on the night before their departure, Chris has an obvious motive Ricardo had accused his teenage son, Carlo, of assaulting his daughter, As Chris fights to prove his and Ricardo's innocence, evidence against him keeps getting worse, And the truth, when it finally comes out, is heartbreaking and revolting, Took a long time on this book, partially because end of school year and household plumbing drama, but also due to the intense whodoneit legal drama that seemed easier for me to read on the train than at home, as there are less distractions.
While the outcome wasnt too surprising, the weaving suspense of the story was splendid,.stars
It was way too drawnout and way too mushy for my liking, Imho, it the book were a good quarter shorter, it would only benefit from it,
Also, I found Terri's and Chris Paget's love story a bit annoying, The court scenes were awesome though, I'm still trying to figure what the title had to do with how the story plays out, Elena, the child, witnesses and experiences horrible things, but her ageyears old has most of the adults making pretzels out of themselves to contain her experiences and shape her life into normalcy, so much so she primarily is either given a chapter or two showing us bad dreams about a dog, or she is living a normal life while the adults wonder why she is a bit sad.
Until all is revealed at the end the reader can only suspect what happened to her, but while she is definitely important to everyone's motivation, Elena's eyes are never part of the plot.
'Love is Blinding', maybe or 'Love Hurts', The adults were children with momentous childhoods, but only Teresa Terri Peralta's eyes as a child saw things which marked her psychologically, This affected her choices as an adult, but not irreparably or destructively, Terri ended up being a lawyer and a good mother, her only problem being her choice of husband, which she decides to fix by getting a divorce, Everything goes horribly wrong when Richie, the husband, is murdered,

Besides the inappropriate title, the book is lifeless for the firstpages, killed by too much endless conversation between Richie and Terri, which beats the reader over the head with Richie's character flaws and selfishness while it is obvious he is an asshole, he is a remarkably normal exhusbandtobe asshole towards Terri, using Elena for blackmail and vengeance in the usual thousandcuts manner, but unfortunately for the reader, described too much in too many pages and way too much repetitious spelledout agonizing by the lovers Terri and

lawyer Christopher Paget while they are trying to BE lovers during Terri's separation from Richie.
I found myself doubting a love could really develop between a couple so full of resentful emotions and fears,

Once past the firstor so pages though, and laying aside the question about how Chris and Terri fell deeply in love despite the severe pressures successfully created by Richie, the novel revs up into a decent legal thriller, as advertised.
There are twists and turns, with true noir surprises leading to everybody doubting each other, Eventually, everyone is suspecting each other of Richie's murder, yet in court plausible lies must be served up to a skeptical judge and jury, Meanwhile, Elena appears to have been sexually abused, but by who The evidence seems to point at Carlo, Chris's son, This new suspicion fractures all relationships almost beyond endurance,

I found the trial to be an interesting dissection of what happens when smart and selfserving individuals collide with genuine trouble, especially when everyone is playing for high stakes and protecting peripheral secrets.
How most of the characters chose to 'shape the narrative' fascinated me, However, while the psychology behind the action makes this a book worthy of reading as it rings true to life except for Chris and Terri falling in love in the first place as does much of the divorce maneuvering, the incredibly awful firstpages setting up the thrills really maimed the book for me.
It was like listening to girl teenagers on a bus talking about what to wear to a birthday party for an hour, agonizing and analyzing, It really needed cutting down, in my opinion, .