Helpful Score: 6
A famous author is killed by a woman who claimes he tried to rape her....but the eveidence seems to suggest something else. And all the main characters seem to have something to hide, including a judge with an agenda of her own! A very intense courtroom thriller!
Shirley E. (luvantiques) -
Helpful Score: 4
This is my first Richard North Patterson book, and I really enjoyed it. However, it is not an easy read, by that I mean not one that you can read quickly. It is very indepth and involved, the story-line is complex and makes you concentrate. But if you like involved courtroom stories, this book is for you. I plan to read more of this author.
Helpful Score: 3
Great courtroom drama! Lots of twists.
Helpful Score: 3
This was the third Richard North Patterson book I have read, and it is truly my favorite. kept me in suspense to the very end...
Helpful Score: 2
Lots of courtroom drama, lots of intertwining relationships, this one has it all.
Helpful Score: 1
a complicated courtroom mystery - fast-moving
Helpful Score: 1
Very tight and engrossing court room drama with the twists and turns of a mystery. Excellent story - couldn't put it down.
A fair suspense.
Mary P. (riverratreader) - , reviewed Degree of Guilt (Christopher Paget, Bk 2) on + 164 more book reviews
Mary Carelli, one of the most powerful women in TV journalism, is charged with the murder of Mark Ransom, America's most eminent novelist. Her defense is attempted rape. Her attorney is Christopher Paget, who's also the father of Mary's child. Paget sets out to shock the courtroom with revelations about Ransom as a twisted sexual predator. But as the trial unfolds, it is Paget who will be surprised...by Mary's secret motive for murder...by evidence that Mary's lying...by a woman prosecutor who believes Mary invented the story of rape...and by an enigmatic judge with an agenda of her own.
Janis K. (scrapbooklady) reviewed Degree of Guilt (Christopher Paget, Bk 2) on + 472 more book reviews
"Degree of Guilt" is a page turning legal thriller. Mr. Patterson manages to weave legal procedures into a gripping story that leaves the reader neither confused nor bored...This is one book you won't be able to put it down.
A good courtroom drama novel. A female television reporter is accused of killing a famous author that she claims attempted to rape her. She relies on a man she was with 15 years earlier that is raising their child to defend her even though she has not been truthful with him about what actually happened.
Excellent drama and plot building.
"The most compulsively readable courtroom thriller since Presumed Innocent" People
Page turner
Very twisted murder mystery....
Great mystery.
good drama both in and out of the courtroom
Josephine B. (loveangel) reviewed Degree of Guilt (Christopher Paget, Bk 2) on + 148 more book reviews
electrifying
Another Mary Carelli / Christopher Paget thriller.
Dorri F. (CaptainsWife) -
Thriller
Courtroom thriller about a lawyer defending a prominent TV journalist (and mother of his child) being accused of murdering a famous novelist despite her defense claim of attempted rape.
I started reading this book then realized I had seen the show on t.v.
Nancy K. (cookbookaddict3) reviewed Degree of Guilt (Christopher Paget, Bk 2) on + 49 more book reviews
courtroom thriller by richard north patterson
Mary Carelli, one of the most powerful women in TV journalism, is charged with the murder of Mark Ransom, America's most eminent novelist. Her defense is attemped rape.
Her attorney is Chrisopher Paget, who's also the father of Mary's child. Paget sets out to shock the courtroom with revelations about Ransom as a twisted sexual predator.
But as the trial unfolds, it is Paget who will be surprised...by Mary's secret motive for murder..by evidence that Mary's lying...by a women prosecutor who believes Mary invented the story of rape and by an enigmatic judge with an agenda of her own.
Her attorney is Chrisopher Paget, who's also the father of Mary's child. Paget sets out to shock the courtroom with revelations about Ransom as a twisted sexual predator.
But as the trial unfolds, it is Paget who will be surprised...by Mary's secret motive for murder..by evidence that Mary's lying...by a women prosecutor who believes Mary invented the story of rape and by an enigmatic judge with an agenda of her own.
Mary Carelli, one of the most powerful women in TV journalism, is charged with the murder of Mark Ransom, America's most eminent novelist. Her defense is attempted rape. Her attorney is Christopher Paget, who's also the father of Mary's child. Paget sets out to shock the courtroom with revelations about Ransom as a twisted sexual predator. But as the trial unfolds, its Paget who will be surprised..by Mary's secret motive for murder...by evidence that Mary's lying..by a woman prosecutor who believes Mary invented the story of rape..and by an enigmatic judge with an agenda of her own.
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The cover I have is different. It's black, red, and white.
Different cover on this book.
