Eyes of a Child

Richard North Patterson

St. Martin’s-Novel

Used Paperback

Cover has wear mostly around the edges and corners. Inside cover is tanned. Spine has no creasing. Pages are clean no internal tears, marks, or creases.

A man has been found dead, a gun still wedged in his mouth. It looks like Ricardo Arias killed himselfbut the physical evidence tells a different story. The police investigation turns up all sorts of troubling dataa 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 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 secretson both sides of the caseare slowly rising to the surfaceand 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 revealedor buried for good…

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