Richard North Patterson, Dark Lady; Balance of Power; Conviction

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“Dark Lady by Richard North Patterson is a First Trade Edition Stand-Alone Hardcover with Dust ...
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Book Series
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Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Fiction
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed
No
Edition
First Trade Edition
Vintage
No
California Prop 65 Warning
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Personalize
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Type
Novel
Literary Movement
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Era
1990s
Illustrator
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Personalized
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Features
Dust Jacket
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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ISBN
9780679450436
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679450432
ISBN-13
9780679450436
eBay Product ID (ePID)
867322

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dark Lady
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Thrillers / General, Thrillers / Suspense
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Author
Richard North Patterson
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
26.8 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in

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Trade
LCCN
99-023565
Reviews
"ENGROSSING . . . TRUE SUSPENSE." --San Francisco Chronicle "[A] COMPLEX TALE OF PERSONAL, POLITICAL, AND CRIMINAL BETRAYALS . . . Dark Lady not only keeps you in suspense; it gives you plenty of social and moral questions to ponder." --The Wall Street Journal "EXCELLENT . . . ONCE AGAIN PATTERSON REVEALS HIMSELF TO BE A MASTER OF CRAFTING MEMORABLE CHARACTERS. AND THE LONELY, LOVELY STELLA MARZ . . . IS ONE OF HIS BEST." --USA Today From the Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
InDark Lady, Richard North Patterson displays the mastery of setting, psychology, and story that makes him unique among writers of suspense, and one of today's most original and enthralling novelists. In Steelton, a struggling Midwestern city on the cusp of an economic turnaround, two prominent men are found dead within days of each other. One is Tommy Fielding, a senior officer of the company building a new baseball stadium, the city's hope for the future. The other is Jack Novak, the local drug dealers' attorney of choice. Fielding's death with a prostitute, from an overdose of heroin, seems accidental; Novak is apparently the victim of a ritual murder. But in each case the character of the dead man seems contradicted by the particulars of his death. Coincidence or connection? The question falls to Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz. Despite a traumatic breach with her alcoholic and embittered father, she has risen from a working-class background to become head of the prosecutor's homicide unit. A driven woman, she is called the Dark Lady by defense lawyers for her relentless, sometimes ruthless, style: in seven years only one case has gotten away from her, and only because the defendant took his own life. She has earned every inch of both her official and her off-the-record titles, and recently she's decided to go after another: to become the first woman elected Prosecutor of Erie County. But that was before the brutal murder of her ex-lover--Jack Novak. Novak's death leads her into a labyrinth where her personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined. There is the possibility that Novak fixed drug cases for the city's crime lord, Vincent Moro, with the help of law enforcement personnel, and perhaps with someone in Stella's own office . . . the bitter mayoral race which threatens to undermine her own ambitions . . . her attraction to a colleague who may not be what he seems . . . the lingering, complicated effects of her painful affair with Novak . . . the growing certainty that she is being watched and followed. Making her way through a maze of corruption, deceit, and greed, trusting no one, Stella comes to believe that the search for the truth involves the bleak history of Steelton itself--a history that now endangers her future, and perhaps her life. For his uncanny dialogue, subtle delineation of character, and hypnotic narrative, critics have compared Richard North Patterson to John O'Hara and Dashiell Hammett. Now, in the character of the Dark Lady, he has created a woman as fascinating as her world is haunting.Dark Ladyis his signature work.
LC Classification Number
PS3566.A8242D37 1999

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