Trial

Trial confirms Richard North Patterson’s place as “our most important author of popular fiction.”In a propulsive narrative that culminates in a nationally televised murder case, Trial explores Ame ...

Trial confirms Richard North Patterson’s place as “our most important author of popular fiction.”In a propulsive narrative that culminates in a nationally televised murder case, Trial explores America’s most incendiary flashpoints of race. A Black eighteen-year-old voting rights worker, Malcolm Hill, is stopped by a white sheriff’s deputy on a dark country road in rural Georgia. His single mother, Allie, America’s leading voting rights advocate, restlessly awaits his return before police inform her that Malcolm has been arrested for murder. In Washington D.C., the rising, young, white congress