Fall from Grace [Paperback] Patterson, Richard North

A prominent lawyer. A dead fiancée floating in the bay. A fortune at stake and questions no one wants to answer. Adam Blaine returns to Martha's Vineyard after a decade away, only to find his ex-lover Benjamin Blaine — now a famous novelist — engaged to a much younger woman. Days later, she's dead under suspicious circumstances, and Ben stands to inherit everything. Adam, now a defense attorney, gets pulled into a case where family secrets, old money, and betrayal tangle into something darker than anyone expected. Patterson weaves a legal thriller that's less courtroom pyrotechnics and more psychological excavation — every witness has something to hide, and the truth keeps shifting. It's taut, intelligent, and surprisingly melancholy for a thriller. For fans of Scott Turow or anyone who likes their mysteries with moral complexity and a coastal New England chill.