3rd Degree - James Patterson

3rd Degree is the third book of James Patterson's Women's Murder Club books, where four women from different professions get together on a regular basis to lend their respective skills and professional knowledge and insights to a case to solve it. Patterson co-wrote this book with Andrew Gross. It seems to be a trend of authors these days to combine their skills with other authors to either increase sales, improve the work or relieve some of the workload. Or it could be a combination of these. This third book in the series promised to be yet another good book from the award-winning crime writer Patterson, although following the first two I was wondering the ...  Read the complete review

Perhaps someone can tell me what the deal is these days but often when I find the latest book by one of my favorite authors, and James Patterson is very definitely one of these, tucked away at the bottom of the cover underneath the authors name is the word “and” followed by another name. Whatever the reason for it, often it means that the quality of the story is not on a par to the earlier work that I have enjoyed. Perhaps Mr. Patterson delegates the ideas to a colleague and lends his name to the story in order to ensure a healthy sales figure, Answers in the comments section please. 3rd Degree is the third novel in the Women’s Murder Club, you do ...  Read the complete review

?It was a clear, calm, lazy April morning, the day the worst week of my life began.? San Francisco Homicide Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer is enjoying some much needed leisure time with her friend and confident Jill Bernhadt, they are enjoying a jog along a beautiful San Francisco street when a massive explosion rips through a nearby townhouse, Lindsay rushes into the burning remains of the building to rescue a child and in doing so becomes involved in a terrifying world of terrorism and murder, three bodies are found in the houses wreckage but worst still a baby is missing without trace and the family au pair has ...  Read the complete review

This offerring from James Patterson in conjunction withAndrew Gross is the third outing for the Women's Murder Club and while it is not necessary to have read the previous two in the series to enjoy thi book it does help as you get a better understanding of the main characters and how they all reached this point in their lives ad how the club was formed. The main caracter is a homicide detective called Lindsay Boxer who works for the San Francisco police force, while going for a run she sees the house explode in front of her due to a bomb and set alight, she rushes in and manages to save the life of a small boy, a second device is then discovered however this ...  Read the complete review