num_pages: 720
description: Oliver Garland, a well-known conservative, Afro-American judge, has suddenly died, allegedly from a heart attack.The powerful judge had never been able to recover from a scandal that ruined his rising professional career towards the Supreme Court. Questions Judge Garland murdered? Whatmysteries hide behind the “dispositions” that he left hidden and which everybody wants to find? This is anexcellent thriller, and at the same time, a piercing study about the academic class and law professionals. Stephen L. Carter masterfully handles irony and suspense while dissecting the higher echelons of the Afro-American community in the United States.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: El Emperador de Ocean Park
titlecomplete: El Emperador de Ocean Park
characters: Oliver Garland, Talcott Garland
genres: Suspense, Audiobook, Mystery, Fiction, Literature, Thriller, Crime, Contemporary, Mystery Thriller, African American
ratings_count: 6710
series: Elm Harbor
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
publisher: Debolsillo