(theaustralian.news.com, Dec. 6, Graeme Blundell)

(Bee Book Club, Dec. 15, Allen Pierleoni)

“I write about the issues I care about, and I know it’s a luxury to have an audience for that,” said author Richard North Patterson, sitting in the living room of his well-furnished home in San Francisco’s Marina district.

He added: “On the other hand, there’s a price to be paid for writing about controversial things – not everybody loves you for it.”

Patterson, 61, a former trial lawyer, has been a best- selling novelist for 28 years. He does not write “legal thrillers” in the sense that, say, a John Grisham or a Linda Fairstein does (both are close friends of his). Rather, he addresses major issues of national and/or global concern through a cast of characters who end up in courtrooms one way or another, further illuminating those issues.

Patterson’s themes have included women’s reproductive rights, gun violence, the death penalty, the Israeli- Palestinian conflict and presidential politics. (more…)

(Publisher’s Weekly, Nov. 3, Awarded Best Books of the Year)
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