Fall from grace
By: by Richard North Patterson
Series: Marthaas Vineyard
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780857386984; 9780857386991
Subjects: Fiction
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Hardback -Adam Blaine returns to Martha's Vineyard out of duty rather than grief, after his father; title: bestselling author and celebrated human rights activist Benjamin Blaine; title: falls to his death near his home in the New England town. Having been estranged from his father for ten years, Adam is surprised to discover himself appointed the executor of his estate; especially as the will disinherits Adam's family, leaving their wealth and home to Ben's recent lover, young actress Carla Pacelli. In his role as executor of the will, Adam is soon confronted with three possible explanations for his father's death; mysterious in that an active, clear-headed man fell from the one spot on the island he knew better than any other. One is medical: Ben was dying and chose to end his suffering. Another is chemical: a fatal loss of footing brought about by excessive drinking. The last is murder: as, although loved by the American public, Ben Blaine was a cruel tyrant to his family, and the source of much resentment. Adam's mission; title: to undo the will and protect his blood, whether innocent or guilty, from charges of murder; title: will force him to confront his own past, and pull him into a labyrinth of lies, deception and betrayal, at the centre of which is his father's beautiful and enigmatic lover.