Adam Blaine has returned to his childhood home in Martha's Vineyard to bury the father he despised. Here, reunited with his equally relieved and long-suffering family, he becomes aware of the suspicious circumstances surrounding his father's death. A death that, Adam will soon discover, is born of a long-hidden truth.
Richard North Patterson (in Berkeley, California) is an American fiction writer and political commentator. He is a 1971 graduate of the Case Western Reserve University’s School of Law, and a recipient of that University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Alumni and its President’s Award for Excellence. He has served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio; a trial attorney for the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.; and was the SEC’s liaison to the Watergate Special Prosecutor. - Wikipedia
He has written more than 20 novels, with the most recent one, Eden In Winter (2014), marking his retirement as a novelist.