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Summary: A good book
Review: Despite the fact that the last two Alex Cross novels (Patterson's other ongoing series) have been pretty bad, all of his other non-Cross work (The Beach House, The Jester, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas) has been very good, with his Women's Murder Club novels especially. I felt that "1st to Die" was one of his all-time best novels, and the follow-up "2nd Chance" was excellent. I don't think "3rd Degree" is as good as the 2 previous novels, but it was still enjoyable and fun to read. Some shocking plot twists, fast pacing, and ludicrous dialgoue abound! I think Patterson should retire his now horrendous Alex Cross novels and focus his energy on these ones.
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Summary: Unsettling and real
Review: 3rd Degree proves to be a decent Patterson read at all counts. San Francisco Homicide Lieutanent Lindsay Boxer's jog with friend D.A. Jill Barnhardt turns out to be an eventful one. She finds out that Jill is suffering from spousal abuse and an explosion rocks a townhouse resided by an high-profile Internet investor Lightower. The mystery deepens when Lindsay gets to save only one child from the inferno, while the other is missing from the scene. The chase is a suspenseful one, zigzagging from uncovering terrorism with the help of Home Security specialist Joe Molinari to solving the murders of an insurance CEO and one of the beloved member of the Women's Murder Club. Patterson and Gross keeps the tale at an emotional high with a final twist in the end that will have readers gasping. The Women's Murder Club gets more active in the scheme of things with tighter pacing especially with Cindy throwing baits to the mysterious e-mail sender and Claire facing the gruelling task of examining the ricin-poisoned bodies. The tale is gripping and real, with its theme of terrorism and social divide that is resonant in our times, making the convoluted plot believable and unsettling.
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Summary: It was worth the wait
Review: I'm always anxiously waiting for the new James Patterson book to be published. I love his Alex Cross series and was excited when he created the Women's Murder Club series. 3rd Degree is fast paced and action packed, with a few hidden surprises. You won't be disappointed.
Rating:
Summary: An Enjoyable Read
Review: Patterson does a pretty good job with his latest installment in the Women's Murder Club series. The story was intriguing, page turning and sad at times. Especially when the girls loose one of their own. This book is definitely my type of police procedural. Looking forward to what comes next in this series.
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Summary: Are You Kidding
Review: Between the blank pages and chapters that start on half a page and end on a third of a page is this sorry excuse of a book.
This is a hastily thrown together book with more filler pages than story. I am not sure who Andrew Gross is, but Gross certainly decribes this trash. James Patterson is cashing in on his name in this one. Stay very far from this!!!!
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Summary: Enjoyable, fast-paced read...
Review: While I was in the emergency room with my son yesterday, I pretty much started and finished the book 3rd Degree by James Patterson and Andrew Gross. This is the latest installment of his Women's Murder Club series, and it was an enjoyable read.Detective Lindsey Boxer is jogging along one day when the house she passes literally blows up. She rushes in to save a child, but three other adults die in the fire. She quickly determines that it was not an accident, and the killer(s?) has left a manifesto demanding the reform of corporate greed. Shortly after that explosion, another prominent businessman dies by a massive overdose of rictin, and the city knows a terrorist organization is on the loose. They threaten a G3 economic summit meeting in San Francisco in a week unless their demands are met. The race is then on to find out who the killers are, and what motivation they have for what they are doing. The subplots involve (among other things) Lindsey's budding romantic involvement with the deputy director of Homeland Security who is also on this case. Fast-paced writing, with really short chapters which keep you thinking "just one more chapter, then I'll put it away". Plenty of character development, and he makes some good points on how the "have nots" of society are ignored and exploited by the "haves". While you quickly learn who some of the killers are, you are kept in the dark about motives until the end. Good stuff. I also find it interesting how Patterson (a white guy) writes novels with main characters who are black (Alex Cross) and female (Lindsey Boxer). Not often that you see a writer go cross-cultural AND cross-gender.
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Summary: Very satisfying
Review: While not the nailbiter that some of his others works are, this Patterson novel is better than the majority of other reads out on the market nowadays. Of the three books I've come across recently, (LITTLE CHILDREN, Jackson McCrae's BARK OF THE DOGWOOD, and this one) 3RD DEGREE is probably the most satisfying. All three of these were excellent and all were completely different, but 3RD DEGREE was the most entertaining. A highly recommended and compelling read.
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Summary: A Top-Notch Twisty Thriller
Review: Patterson does it again with this latest installment in the Women's Murder Club series, and even takes the excitement up a notch from previous books. The only other writer in this league is one Patterson once offered advice to: John Robert Marlow, whose first book NANO is--like Patterson's--also set in San Francisco. Looking forward to more from both!
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Summary: SEARING THRILLER!
Review: Apart from the break-neck pace, I love the way Patterson squeezes in contemporary facts and events in his thrillers. This latest in the Women's Murder Club series is every bit as nailbiting as the first two, but with a slight twist: this time, the solution to a grisly string of bombings cannot come without the expense of having to lose someone very close to our amateur detectives. Riveting plot twists. Bullet paced turn of events. This novel packs in just about everything you would expect from a wholesome crime thriller. If you've read the first 2 in the series, you'd probably be even better off as you could relate more easily to the fears and idiosyncrasies of our intriguing protagonists. So feed the cat, turn on the air conditioning and slip into bed with this very, very satisfying nailbiter.
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Summary: WOW !! GREAT shocker!!!
Review: I still can't believe what he did !!!! This book is the best one I have read in a long time that made me STOP and say WHOA and re-read a certain part again!!! I also have a feeling this will continue with the way it ended
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