4th of July (Women's Murder Club)
by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
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Read in July, 2006
Since these have been on the bestseller's lists recently, I thought I'd give them a read. Apparently James Patterson decided to jump on the recent women's mystery series craze. The books, thusfar, are 1st to Die, 2nd Chance, 3rd Degree, 4th of July, and 5th Horseman.
Despite the uncreative title for the series (Women's Murder Club? Come on!) the books work rather well. We're not talking the depth or detail and complexity of Sherlock Holmes here, but...more
Despite the uncreative title for the series (Women's Murder Club? Come on!) the books work rather well. We're not talking the depth or detail and complexity of Sherlock Holmes here, but...more
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Read in March, 2008
Maxine Paetro picks up the series from Andrew Gross. She introduces a new character, Yuki Castellano, who I think might end up joining the Club.
The bulk of this book features Lindsay on trial for a wrongful death suit. The courtroom stuff was about as good as in an episode of Law & Order, which is to say it was obviously dramatized but sufficiently convincing to me.
There was the obligatory serial killer plot thrown in, with a decent twist ending. I'm not great at guessing who the ...more
The bulk of this book features Lindsay on trial for a wrongful death suit. The courtroom stuff was about as good as in an episode of Law & Order, which is to say it was obviously dramatized but sufficiently convincing to me.
There was the obligatory serial killer plot thrown in, with a decent twist ending. I'm not great at guessing who the ...more
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Read in August, 2007
As the story unfolds Lieutenant Boxer is hot on the trail of a couple of suspects that she and her partner believe are responsible for a recent string of seedy motel murders. Turns out the suspects are two very youthful teenage siblings, and in the process of apprehending these two, Boxer is forced to use deadly force to defend herself and her partner. When all is said and done, Boxer's partner is critically wounded and unconscious, Boxer herself has been hit twice, a 15 year old girl is dead, a...more
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Lindsay Boxer is on the trail of a killer with her one of her ex-partners when the unthinkable happens... while chasing down a suspect's car, it crashes. When they go to help, they find two pre-teen kids in the front seat. But as they try to get them out of the car, both kids pull guns and shoot the two cops. Lindsay fires back, killing one and paralyzing the other from the neck down before passing out herself due to her injuries. While on forced leave from the SFPD during her trial, she takes a...more
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Read in May, 2005
From a blog post I wrote in 2005:
Co-written by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, 4th of July, is very Patterson-like and I mean that in a good way. Short chapters, red herrings, and a likeable main character in SFPD Lt. Lindsay Boxer (of the Women's Murder Club) made reading this a very pleasant way to spend my Sunday night.
There are two concurrent story lines. The first has Boxer being tried for excessive force in the shooting of two teenagers and the second finds Boxer trying to solve...more
Co-written by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, 4th of July, is very Patterson-like and I mean that in a good way. Short chapters, red herrings, and a likeable main character in SFPD Lt. Lindsay Boxer (of the Women's Murder Club) made reading this a very pleasant way to spend my Sunday night.
There are two concurrent story lines. The first has Boxer being tried for excessive force in the shooting of two teenagers and the second finds Boxer trying to solve...more
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Read in July, 2008
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Fourth in the Women's Murder Club series.
Lt. Lindsay Boxer is on trial for not following proper police procedures. As a result, one child is dead and another is paralyzed for life. Of course, the kids were gun-toting murder suspects who fired on the cops first, but that doesn't stop their father from suing Lindsay and the SF police department for $150 million.
Lindsay goes to stay at her sister's house to get away from the media madness and stumbles on a series of murders in tiny, seren...more
Lt. Lindsay Boxer is on trial for not following proper police procedures. As a result, one child is dead and another is paralyzed for life. Of course, the kids were gun-toting murder suspects who fired on the cops first, but that doesn't stop their father from suing Lindsay and the SF police department for $150 million.
Lindsay goes to stay at her sister's house to get away from the media madness and stumbles on a series of murders in tiny, seren...more
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Read in July, 2008
I went to high school with James Patterson and only recently found out that my schoolmate is the famous writer. This is my first James Patterson novel and my motive was to see what Jim has been doing.
I can see why his books are popular. The plot and pacing of this book are wonderful. It consists of over 100 short chapters that are about two pages long. The title has to do with when the story takes place and doesn't fit largely into the plot.
The authors weave a cold case and two current ser...more
I can see why his books are popular. The plot and pacing of this book are wonderful. It consists of over 100 short chapters that are about two pages long. The title has to do with when the story takes place and doesn't fit largely into the plot.
The authors weave a cold case and two current ser...more
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I know Patterson is using numbers in the title so the readers will know the order of this Women's Murder Club series, but what did the novel have to do with the 4th of July? Nothing. This was my least favorite of all the WMC books, but I still enjoyed it. It's amazing when you can still enjoy a book even despite all of its flaws. While the police shooting was exciting, the lawsuit that followed seemed contrived. I didn't like that they made the kids seem innocent. How the 2nd mystery ended came ...more
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Read in April, 2008
Good one, just like the others. This one hit me a bit harder. Goes to show you how "the truth" can be sooo shadowed by what other people want you to think. I would hope that in reality, no one would ever take the case Lindsay Boxer had to go through seriously. But they were right about one thing: Lindsay was completely in the right to shoot those kids...but the situation may never have come to that if she had acted differently just a few seconds before.
P.S.-that ventilator was prob...more
P.S.-that ventilator was prob...more
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Read in November, 2007
This book is subpar. The plot was stunted and came to an abrupt predictable ending. This felt like he wrote it on the John one day. The thin plot line and sniff-and-scratch characters do little justice to the Women's Murder Club.
I think the book should have been all about the trial and focused more on the Cabot boy's manipulation as her adversary. Instead Patterson shut down the promising plot line and continued stubbornly with the John Doe murders.
I hated how Yuki was introduced into th...more
I think the book should have been all about the trial and focused more on the Cabot boy's manipulation as her adversary. Instead Patterson shut down the promising plot line and continued stubbornly with the John Doe murders.
I hated how Yuki was introduced into th...more
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Read in October, 2006
It’s been quite a while (over a year) since I read a James Patterson book, and this one reminded me why I like him! This is the 4th book in the Women’s Murder Club series. It’s quite fast-paced, typical of Patterson’s books, since he writes the shortest 300+ page books you’ve ever seen (white space, anyone?) Anyway, the trial is interesting, the murder mystery is interesting, and I didn’t even have it all figured out before the end. I figured out 2 of the people involved, but had no ...more
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I was looking for something to read on a trip recently and came across this. It was an accidental find because I thought I had another title in my hand. Nevertheless, I read it and it was actually pretty good. This was the first time I've read a book out of this Women's Murder Club series. The main character was a pretty tough female cop. I liked her b/c she wasn't whinny or helpless. The suspense keep me the entire time. I really liked the ending and would not have guess it.
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Read in March, 2007
first one of the series i read, and i'd have to say, the lamest of them all. this is partly because it's a transition book - lindsay's on "r&r" in half-moon bay, jill's gone, cindy and claire are working . . . but lindsay is still my least favorite character, and this is all about her.
i have to say, i'm intrigued by the fact they are turning this into a tv show though. i have no idea how they will pull it off. not a clue. which of course means i'll be tuning in.
i have to say, i'm intrigued by the fact they are turning this into a tv show though. i have no idea how they will pull it off. not a clue. which of course means i'll be tuning in.
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Read in January, 2005
This is the worst book so far in the series. I had the killers pegged the moment they stepped on the page. I also had many "jolting" moments as I was reading. A line would randomly stop the flow of reading. I would guess that's Maxine's doing because I've never really had that problem in reading other Patterson novels. I really enjoyed books 1, 2 and 3, but this one was bad enough that I haven't dared pick up 5, 6 or 7 yet.
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Read in May, 2008
As far as books in this series go, this one is my least favorite to date, but still not a deal breaker. Obviously after three books, he had to change the format a bit, but I wasn't crazy with the protagonist being on trial and having to hear her stress about it for the first half of the book. I'm really looking forward to the next book in the series and hope it gets back to her kicking butt on high profile murder cases.
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Read in September, 2006
I never read books like this, but it was left at my house by my grandmother and I felt like a quick read. So the classic novel lover in me confesses...I really liked it! The heroine is wonderful and I loved the twists and turns in the story! Granted, I was sure someone was breaking into my house every time I tried to read it at night, but I guess that means Patterson succeeded! A great thrill!
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Read in October, 2007
I could NOT put this book down and held my breathe anticipating the next moves throught the book. This story really had some great parts and twists. This was a real engrossing one!! The only downfall was that most of the story didn't involve the entire Woman's Club characters so it read more like a typical good Patterson instead of part of this series.
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Read in January, 2004
recommends it for:
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Detective Lindsay Boxer moves front and center in this story, in which she must defend herself in court against spurious criminal charges, while linking a cold case that has haunted her to a string of unsolved murders. Fast-paced, tense, and packed with more twists than a raspberry Twizzler, this novel one of the best in this series.
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Read in October, 2007
This series is really hard to put down! I know it is fiction and everything, but what happened to Lindsay really upset me. I'm a law enforcement officer too and I couldn't believe that she would be sued for a "good shoot." Clearly, it is not ideal to use deadly force against kids, but they introduced that into the situation!
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Read in April, 2007
I actually liked this one more than some of the others in the series. Lindsay Boxer is on some R & R following an arrest gone bad that ends with a shooting. She goes to her sister's house in Half Moon Bay to get away from things and finds herself caught in another murder investigation. That always seems to happen, doesn't it?
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