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 ...  Read the complete review

James Patterson is one of my favourite authors, especially his early work which is excellent, unfortunately in recent times he increasingly seems to writre in collaboration with another writer and the quality suffers however for this book although there is a credit given to Maxine Paetro the book does not suffer with regards to quality. This is the fourth book in the series to feature a group known as The Women's Murder Club, this is a group of friends most of whome work in the criminal field and provide support for each other in resolving murder cases. In my opinion you need to have read the other three to really enjoy this one as the storylines arecontinuous ...  Read the complete review

What do a police lieutenant, an ace newspaper reporter, a pathologist and a lawyer have in common? Could it be that they're all female or that they share a love of margaritas or even that they like chatting about their top secret super classified cases in the wine bar sharing pieces of super classified highly secretive information whilst drinking margaritas and calling themselves The Women's Murder Club and solving cases that no ordinary police officer could possibly solve without the help of their friends. It all makes perfect sense. The Official Secrets Act is clearly over rated. This is the fourth novel by James Patterson featuring the Women's Murder Club ...  Read the complete review

This book was given to me in a big pile and has been waiting patiently to be read for a few months. I decided to start reading this when I heard on a quiz show that James Patterson is the most loaned author in the U.K. Right then I thought if thats the case he must be good. The story is about San Francisco detective Lindsey Boxer who finds herself in a sticky situation when she kills a teenage girl who is driving a car that has been seen at the scene of a murder. The girls younger brother is also in the car and is also shot but survives. Boxer and her partner are shot by the children both surviving but face a court case. Boxer is ...  Read the complete review