Review: The 24th Hour - Book #24 Women's Murder Club Series - James Patterson and Maxine Paetro - May 2024 When The 24th Hour drops, you know you’re in for an edge-of-your-seat, chaotic ride. A wedding, a birthday, and an assault all collide, as trouble always seems to find the Women’s Murder Club. And trust me, this time it’s big trouble. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer and the gang—Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas—are just trying to enjoy a nice meal in San Francisco’s best restaurant. But before they can toast to life’s celebrations, violence crashes their moment. The case? Complicated. A victim with a memory that keeps shifting, a story full of holes, and a whole mess of lies. As Yuki digs deep into the legal side of things, Lindsay is on the hunt for a high-society killer whose skills in target practice might take out more than just a couple of lives. And the best part? The stakes are personal. The Women’s Mu...

Review: 23 1/2 Lies - Book #23.5 Women's Murder Club Series - James Patterson and Maxine Paetro - September 2023 After trying two books this morning and nothing kicking in, I went for a nice quick novella read, and the perfect one for me as I knew I would enjoy it was James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's latest in the Women's Murder Club series. This is one of my favorite crime series as I have seen them develop through the books, marry, and have children. After reading 20+ books in this series for almost 20 years it's a comfort series. In 23 1/2 Lies, Lindsay's crazy morning with her daughter knocking over the two fish in the fish bowl should have been her pre-warning that today was going to be a "bad day'. A person has been shot near the court house and that person happens to be none other than Marty Boxer aka Lindsay's father or so she thought the strange thing was according to sources and what she was told, he died years ago so how can his fresh corp...

Review: 22 Seconds - Book #22 Women's Murder Club Series - James Paterson and Maxine Paetro - May 2022 James Patterson is one of those authors that you either love or hate, for me, I have been reading this particular series since I was about 15-16 years old as I picked it up from a market in Matamata when I was staying with my Nana - a copy of 2nd Chance and from that day, I have been forever following James Patterson and his books. I have to admit though that this one, like the last couple, felt a bit too busy in plots for my liking and I got about halfway and then had to persevere to finish the rest of the story. I did find the main storyline of guns and gun laws interesting especially with the current state of the mass shootings in the US and what has been happening. I did however find Claire's storyline as she went to consult on a case unnecessary as it really didn't have any relevance to the story and it just felt like it was chucked in because they needed to feature...

Review: 20th Victim - Book #20 Women's Murder Club Series - James Patterson and Macine Paetro - March 2020 Out of all of James Patterson's series, the Women's Murder Club is one of the few ones that I have continued to read and have found them all still enjoyable and my love of the characters have not faltered. This particular book could have come off too busy but the way that James Patterson and Maxine Paetro worked it, it actually didn't seem OTT. The Women's Murder Club and SFPD are in for a hectic rollercoaster ride as a series of different murders all killed by sniper shots are happening over the city at the exact same time, finding it difficult to pinpoint just one person as no person can be in all different places at the same time. It also looks like the killings are vigilantes as the people dying are drug dealers and all deserve to die as to be honest the streets are better off without them. During the WMC dealing with this, Joe's high school...