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For the British artist, see Richard Patterson.

Richard North Patterson is an American author of fiction. He grew up in Berkeley, California, the eldest child of a retired corporate executive and a housewife. After graduating in 1968 from Ohio Wesleyan University and Case Western Reserve Law School, he served as an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Ohio and has been partner in several of the country’s leading law firms. He also served as the liaison for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to the Watergate Special Prosecutor.

Richard did not start writing until he was 29 and already out of law school. He began his first book The Lasko Tangent while taking a creative writing course, and in 1993 he retired from the practice of law to devote himself to writing. Since then he has written a series of bestselling thrillers including No Safe Place, Eyes of a Child and Dark Lady. His novels have won the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.

Books

• Private Screening
• Escape The Night
• Dark Lady
• The Final Judgement
• The Lasko Tangent
• The Outside Man
• Eyes of a Child
• Silent Witness
• Balance of Power
• No Safe Place
• Protect and Defend
• Degree of Guilt
• Conviction

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