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by pmcds - written on 23/10/08 (Very useful, 60 readings)
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Not content with the immense success of the Alex Cross, master of the quick crime thriller James Patterson has created a new series of books, with the fourth in the series entitled 4th of July. The series follows the Women's Murder Club, featuring four professional women: a cop, an ME, a reporter and a lawyer, who all get together and solve crimes. The plot normally involves the main character, Lindsay Boxer, and the books are written in the narrative with her as the 1st person. 4th of July picks up where the 3rd in the series left off, and be warned, if you haven't read this or any of the others, then this review may have some series plot spoiler type ...
by freediveheaven - written on 23/06/07 (Very useful, 213 readings)
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In previous reviews I have moaned about the fact that one of my favourite authors James Patterson has over recent years resorted to producing his books in conjunction with various other writers and in my opinion the quality has dropped since this started unfortunately the fourth in the crime series to feature a group known as The Women’s Murder Club has gone in the same direction and while overall this was a competent entertaining read it was let down by a rushed ending which had some glaring plot holes in it, it felt as though he delegated the ending to the co-writer as part of a development exercise and then never bothered to check the work properly. ...
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