The Final Judgment [abridged, two cassettes]

With the first scenes of Richard North Patterson's electrifying new audio, we are plunged into the moment of a vicious crime: twenty-two-year-old Brett Allen discovers her boyfriend brutally slain -- and finds herself, only hours later, in police custody, the prime suspect.

Her aunt, Caroline Masters, is summoned to act as her defense attorney. The result is a painful meeting with Brett, whom Caroline has not seen since infancy, and a confrontation with three people from whom she is deeply estranged: her first lover who is now the prosecutor, her half-sister, and most difficult of all, her domineering father. The story moves quickly now, opening into the police investigation and the courtroom.

Yet the truths about herself and her family that Caroline ultimately uncovers are painful beyond the deepest doubts and shocking beyond the deepest fears that haunt her adult life -- and make up the explosive core of the author's most powerful novel to date.

Lisa Banes has appeared in the films Cocktail, Hotel New Hampshire, and Young Guns; on television in The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, China Beach, and Life Goes On; and on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.

The Lasko Tangent and Eyes of a Child, by Richard North Patterson, are also available from Random House AudioBooks. Degree of Guilt and Private Screening are _ available as Random House Price-Less Audios.