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23rd Midnight: A serial killer behind bars. A copycat killer on the loose… (Women’s Murder Club 23)

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Her fellow members of the Women’s Murder Club – Lindsay, Yuki, and Claire – show up to support her and indulge in a celebratory dinner afterwards. As the action mounts, revelations are made that could have dire consequences, when one of the Club’s own is tangled in the web. Through the years I have come to actually care about the characters in his books and I feel like I have gotten to know the characters in this series pretty well. Among his creations are some of the world's most popular series including Alex Cross, the Women's Murder Club, Michael Bennett and the Private novels. In a separate case Yuki is prosecuting a domestic violence case against Lewis Sullivan for the attempted murder of his wife who is left with horrific injuries.

23rd Midnight by James Patterson | Waterstones

As the opening promises this is one for the fans of the Women’s Murder Club and it certainly delivers on that promise.All four Murder Club members appear in this 23rd instalment and they all play a part in the plot (which has been missing for quite a few recent publications in the series). I got really immersed and could feel the tension and frustration of the characters as the murders pile up and Yuki waits for a verdict. The hunt for the killer is interspersed with another Women’s Murder Club member, prosecutor Yuki Castellano, trying a domestic violence case. This was an exciting one and I was nervous throughout the second half thinking there could be a big shift in the "Murder Club".

23rd Midnight by James Patterson - Penguin Books Australia 23rd Midnight by James Patterson - Penguin Books Australia

Key characters emerge as needed and provide the reader with something to enjoy, as they can trace their development throughout the book and series at large. This isn’t always a given in the authors’ work as sometimes they substitute action for emotion, but today I felt it and finished the novel in one sitting, desperate for a successful outcome. It starts off with a new serial killer that refers to himself as Blackout, committing a horrendous double murder. Yuki Castellano, a Prosecutor, working on an incredibly violent domestic abuse case against Lewis Sullivan. Women's Murder Club: Lindsay SFPD detective, Cindy reporter/author, Claire Chief medical examiner, and Yuki state prosecutor.Cindy Thomas, Crime Reporter, author and Lindsay's best friend and member of the Women's Murder Club, continued her book tour of the true crime she'd written about Burke, but people were dying in and around the tour venues. I started it not long after finishing a truly epic read and had high hopes that I’d love this story. As expected the chapters are short and punchy, just making you want to read on and on and because they are short you keep promising yourself 'just one more chapter ' which turns into 5, 6, 7. We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work. Inspector Sonia Alvarez is in her early thirties, a leggy brunette recently relocated from Las Vegas MPD, where she used her street smarts working undercover in Vice.

23rd Midnight: A serial killer behind bars. A copycat killer

It certainly seems to be the case but can someone really be a fan of his and, more worryingly, is Cindy at great risk? What a brilliant story teller James Patterson is, I was hooked from page one and couldn’t put the book down. Even the court case that Yuki was defending started off in what seemed like a one-sided expected outcome, but Patterson and Paetro found some ways to add in some worry and concern before the ending resolution. I love James Patterson books and the Women’s murder club ones are usually superb, this one does not disappoint in any way. It’s well written with Patterson’s signature short chapters, dialogue that sparkles and an easy reading style that had me finishing the book in a matter of hours.I always look forward to a Women's Murder Club book, and this one was a good addition to the series. This is one of the better ones in the series and it got really good and once I sat down and could really get into it I didn't want to put it down and didn't want it to end. This book has the usual murder that Detective Lindsay Boxer has to try and solve along with her colleagues and usually with her 3 best friends Cindy, a journalist, Yuki a prosecutor and Claire, the Chief Medical Examiner who all get involved in one way or another. Now published, the book is selling like mad and Cindy has been on the book signing junket, in hopes of garnering even more press. Fast paced, with plenty of action, Patterson's usual short, choppy chapters (which I love), it included Yuki Castellano - top lawyer - and Claire Washburn - the city's ME - alongside Cindy and Lindsay.

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