Patricia O'Brien, Author . Touchstone $25 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5220-8
Smooth flashbacks carry this inventive romp through a 19th-century New England scandal, which opens at the deathbed of Henry Ward Beecher, “the most brilliant preacher in America,” in March of 1887. Around him are his many siblings,...
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Patricia O'Brien, Author St. Martin's Press $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-95021-7
O'Brien's engaging first novel--a BOMC alternate in cloth--focuses on potential first lady Kate Goodspeed, who must contend with explosive secrets as her husband campaigns for the presidency. (Mar.)
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Patricia O'Brien, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (284p) ISBN 978-0-671-78906-0
Washington, D.C., would seem a better place to forge political alliances than to bond in friendship. Yet O'Brien ( The Candidate's Wife ) challenges that assumption with this breezy drama about four elite women who meet monthly for a ``ladies' lunch'
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Patricia O'Brien, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (368p) ISBN 978-0-684-81355-4
The biggest problem with O'Brien's (The Ladies' Lunch) predictable psychological thriller is that it telegraphs its ending way too early. Rachel Snow, recently divorced Chicago morning drive-time radio talk-show host, tempts fate when she buys back...
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Patricia O'Brien, Author St. Martin's Press $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-95789-6
Former political journalist O'Brien, insider and author of The Candidate's Wife, creates a powerful circle of Washington women who investigate the supposed suicide of one of their group. (Feb.)
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