Patterson, Richard North

Richard North Patterson graduated in 1968 from Ohio Wesleyan University and has been awarded that school’s Distinguished Achievement Citation and his national fraternity’s Alumni Achievement Award. 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. More recently, Mr. Patterson was a partner in the San Francisco office of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, now Bingham McCutchen LLP, before retiring from practice in 1993.

Mr. Patterson studied fiction writing with Jesse Hill Ford at the University of Alabama at Birmingham; his first short story was published in The Atlantic Monthly; and his first novel, The Lasko Tangent, won an Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1979. Between 1981 and 1985, he published The Outside Man, Escape the Night, and Private Screening, which made the New York Times bestseller list in 1994. His first novel in eight years, Degree of Guilt (1993), and Eyes of A Child (1995), were combined into a mini-series by NBC TV. Both were international bestsellers, and Degree of Guilt was awarded the French Grand Prix de Litterateur Policiere in 1995. The Final Judgment (1995), Silent Witness (1997), No Safe Place (1998), and Dark Lady (1999) all became immediate international bestsellers, and in 2011 Silent Witness became a feature film on TNT. Protect and Defend (2000), about the controversial nomination of the first woman to be Chief Justice, and her entanglement in an incendiary lawsuit regarding late-term abortion and parental consent, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and received a Maggie Award from Planned Parenthood for its treatment of issues regarding reproductive rights. In 2013, the London Guardian Literary Review named No Safe Place one of the 10 best works of fiction, nonfiction, or biography inspired by John F. Kennedy and the Kennedy assassination in the 50 years since his death.

My Opinion: I can't recall any specific novels I have read but do recall I thoroughly enjoyed his work. My guess they would have been courtroom dramas. I recommend you try him and see what you think.

Just finished "loss of Innocence" Well written but more of a romance type novel than I prefer. Would try another though. (3/17)

The following are all novels by the author.

• • The Lasko Tangent (1979)

  • The Outside Man (1981)

  • Escape the Night (1983)

  • Private Screening (1985)

  • Degree of Guilt (1993)

  • Eyes of a Child (1995)

  • Caroline Masters (formerly titled "The Final Judgment")(1995)

  • Silent Witness (1997)

  • No Safe Place (1998)

  • Dark Lady (1999)

  • Protect and Defend (2000)

  • Balance of Power (2003)

  • Conviction (2005)

  • Exile (2007)

  • The Race (2007)

  • Eclipse (2009)

  • The Spire (2009)

  • In The Name Of Honor (2010)

  • The Devil's Light (2011)

  • Fall From Grace (2012)

• Loss of Innocence (2013) - ISBN 978-1-62365-092-6 X

• Eden in Winter (2014) X

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