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Dark Lady (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Richard North Patterson (Author), Anne Twomey (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 12 hours and 53 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
  • Audible Release Date: 9 Feb 2001
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SQ12LA
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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In Dark 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, as struggling city on the cusp of an economic turnaround, two prominent men are found dead. 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. 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. 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. 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. Dark Lady is Richard North Patterson's signature work.

©1999 by Richard North Patterson; (P)1999 Random House, Inc.
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IN THE MOMENTS before the brutal murder of Jack Novak ended what she later thought of as her time of innocence, Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz gazed down at the waterfront of her native city, Steelton. Read the first page
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Jules
Format:Paperback
Having read everything this guy has written and thoroughly enjoyed the plots, the characters and the dark humour that lurks throughout his stories, I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of Dark Lady in paperback. Well now.......what to say..... The story is heavy on detail and the humour is definitely missing. There is none of the sharp repartee that has become almost a hallmark of RNP's books in the past. I thought the plot was good although the main characters lacked any real personality and I certainly didn't find myself routing for Stella Marz as she fought her way through a fog of political intrigue and drugs. Suffice to say, this one didn't grab my attention in the same wa as all the others.....perhaps a change of scene, characters and storyline are required for the next novel......
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
this book will blow you away, if you ahve the stomach for it. it's gruesome from the start but the pace just gets faster and faster. it's all about murder, politics, corruption and lies with more twists and turns than the Sixth Sense.
it's set in a rundown town where the "dark lady" is a chief prosecutor, but is called to the grisly murder scene of her ex boyfriend. with no physical evidence to go by, she tries to solve the case but is being betrayed by the people she works with, endangering her life.
it's the best RNP book i've read.
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Format:Hardcover
This novel was not up to Patterson's usual standard and I was most disappointed in it. Cliched sex and cliched crime and his least believeable female character yet. This read like an early novel and the plot was poor. There were some minor highlights, but overall not a good effort.
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