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Degree of Guilt Richard North Patterson (Ballantine, $5.99, first published in 1992) Mary Carelli, a glamorous and celebrated TV journalist, is under arrest for the killing of Mark Ransom, America’s ”most famous living writer.” Despite the novel’s tangle of lurid secrets, it doesn’t offer a single surprise as it lumbers toward a soggy courtoom confrontation. C-

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