As San Francisco's most glamorous millionaires mingle at the party of the year, someone is watching--waiting for a chance to take vengeance on Isa ...
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Nov 22, 2011
Tony
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James Patterson and Maxine Paetro- The 8th Confession (Grand central Publishing 2010) 3.5 Stars
The rich are dying in San Francisco and Detective Boxer is being pressured from up top to clear this case. No one seems to know the cause of these deaths until it slaps them in the face, but will it help them solve the case? Meanwhile Bagman Jesus has just been brutally murdered and his being homeless seems to make him less important, that is until Cindy Thomas gets things rolling for him in More...
The rich are dying in San Francisco and Detective Boxer is being pressured from up top to clear this case. No one seems to know the cause of these deaths until it slaps them in the face, but will it help them solve the case? Meanwhile Bagman Jesus has just been brutally murdered and his being homeless seems to make him less important, that is until Cindy Thomas gets things rolling for him in More...
Nov 01, 2011
Amy
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So, I’ve had this love/hate relationship with James Patterson since I read my first Alex Cross novel quite a few years ago. See, he writes these amazing stories but he breaks them up into itty bitty chapters. Why is this a bad thing? Well, mainly it’s a bad thing because you find yourself sitting there, at nearly nine o’clock at night thinking, “Hmmm, it’s only three pages… I can do one more chpater.” Before you know it, it’s creeping up on eleven o’clock and five thirty AM is staring you in
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Sep 14, 2011
Cj
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" Cindy felt w wave of nausea, sucked in her breath.
The pile of rags was, in fact, a dead man. His clothes were blood-soaked and his face so beaten to much, Cindy couldn't make out his features.......... It's B-B-Bagman Jesus. Someone Killed Him! "
" 'Don't be mad' I said, tucking the blanket under Joe's chin, Patting his stubbly cheeks, planting a PG-13- rated kiss on his mouth, careful not to get him going again because I just didn't have time to get back in th More...
The pile of rags was, in fact, a dead man. His clothes were blood-soaked and his face so beaten to much, Cindy couldn't make out his features.......... It's B-B-Bagman Jesus. Someone Killed Him! "
" 'Don't be mad' I said, tucking the blanket under Joe's chin, Patting his stubbly cheeks, planting a PG-13- rated kiss on his mouth, careful not to get him going again because I just didn't have time to get back in th More...
Aug 15, 2011
Tim
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The four members of the Women’s Murder Club are present in this novel, but this time their activities are more disparate than collusive. Two main threads are woven through the tight 112 chapters: the sidewalk slaying of Bagman Jesus and the serial murders attributed to Pet Girl.
Reading almost like movie trailers, the first several pages describe two different, horrific scenes that seem irrelevant when Boxer initially takes up the storyline. Patterson’s usual cliff-hanging chapter More...
Reading almost like movie trailers, the first several pages describe two different, horrific scenes that seem irrelevant when Boxer initially takes up the storyline. Patterson’s usual cliff-hanging chapter More...
Aug 02, 2010
Swissmiss
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First of all, why are all of James Patterson's books co-written by someone else? Is he ghost-writing other people's stories? Or is he the one with the great plot ideas but can't string three words together? Has the well run dry, so to speak, after so many years, and he's mining other, little-known authors who are willing to sell their soul for the chance to have their name on a cover with James Patterson? Wikipedia says: "Patterson is also well known for sharing the spotlight with different
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Jun 15, 2010
Elizabeth
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Pretty good. Interesting combination of several different crimes that are woven together into one storyline. Though I found there to be a lot going on, and I kind of felt like I had ADD every time that my attention was diverted a different mystery from a different character's point of view. First the school bus/portable meth lab exploded. Then a homeless man named Bagman Jesus was brutally murdered. And then a super rich couple was murdered while sleeping, with no trace of the murder weapon and
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Jun 09, 2010
Denise
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3.0 out of 5 stars 3.5 star fast and fun beach read, July 27, 2009
This review is from: The 8th Confession (The Women's Murder Club) (Hardcover)
This is the 8th book in the Women's Murder Club series. Of course if you're a fan, you've already read the others and probably pre-ordered this one. I do believe it is a series that you have to read in order, so don't start with this one as even though you would "get it" as a stand alone, it's really the history that the wom More...
This review is from: The 8th Confession (The Women's Murder Club) (Hardcover)
This is the 8th book in the Women's Murder Club series. Of course if you're a fan, you've already read the others and probably pre-ordered this one. I do believe it is a series that you have to read in order, so don't start with this one as even though you would "get it" as a stand alone, it's really the history that the wom More...
May 10, 2010
Kelly
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He and I are thisclose to breaking up. I'm going to give the next Alex Cross book another try and if that isn't fantastic, Patterson and I are done.
For real.
This is the 8th installment in Patterson's Women's Murder Club series. There are two murder mysteries going on. The first is a series of crimes involving the wealthy; various people are found dead, but there's no apparent reason for it. The victims are all young and healthy and there's no definite cause of death. More...
For real.
This is the 8th installment in Patterson's Women's Murder Club series. There are two murder mysteries going on. The first is a series of crimes involving the wealthy; various people are found dead, but there's no apparent reason for it. The victims are all young and healthy and there's no definite cause of death. More...
Oct 08, 2009
Aaron
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San Francisco is once again confronted with a serial killer and it will be up to the Women's Murder Club and the beaus to solve the case. Someone is targeting high society folks, but no one can figure out how the killer is taking them out. Other than the fact that they might have a taste for partying, drinking, drugs and other debauchery, the victims show no signs of injury or illness. In fact, they are in prime shape.
Claire, the cities chief medical examiner, has done everything she More...
Claire, the cities chief medical examiner, has done everything she More...
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Aug 12, 2009
Becky
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This one was good, but still not as good as the 1st or 6th in the series. I'm still on the edge of my seat for the 9th book, but I wasn't as speechless with this one. It was a little ho-hum.
I enjoyed the tension between Cindy and Lindsey in this one. It's made the whole situation a little more real as far as their personal lives are concerned. I also really liked the wisdom that Yuki gave to Lindsey about her love life. Then, Yuki's situation with Doc was a shocker! It was a great tw More...
I enjoyed the tension between Cindy and Lindsey in this one. It's made the whole situation a little more real as far as their personal lives are concerned. I also really liked the wisdom that Yuki gave to Lindsey about her love life. Then, Yuki's situation with Doc was a shocker! It was a great tw More...
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Aug 04, 2009
Teresa
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Someone is killing the super-rich in California. A dead homeless man is shot six times and beaten to death. A beauty queen on trial for killing her father and turning her mother into a vegetable. A school bus blows up in the middle of the street, killing ten people. These are the cases the Women's Murder Club is working on.
Crime reporter is on her way to work one morning when she notices a crowd of homeless people gathered around something. But it is really a someone, Bagman Jesus, s More...
Crime reporter is on her way to work one morning when she notices a crowd of homeless people gathered around something. But it is really a someone, Bagman Jesus, s More...
Jul 25, 2009
The 8th Confession, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, B-plus. Narrated by Carolyn McCormick, produced by Hatchett Audio, downloaded from audible.com.
The latest addition to the Women’s Murder Club series. Actually a much better book than the last few have been. The two main three mysteries to be solved in this case were:
A. a schoolbus blows up in the street killing ten people, passengers in other cars and pedestrians. It turns out the schoolbus was being used as a meth More...
The latest addition to the Women’s Murder Club series. Actually a much better book than the last few have been. The two main three mysteries to be solved in this case were:
A. a schoolbus blows up in the street killing ten people, passengers in other cars and pedestrians. It turns out the schoolbus was being used as a meth More...
Jul 09, 2009
Debbie
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This is the 5th book these two have co-authored and it's the 8th in the series of the Women's Murder Club. These stories are good and well worth reading if you are a Patterson fan, but tend to fall short when compared to his other books.
This one keeps you guessing along with the detectives as they try to solve some mysterious deaths occuring among the super-rich in San Francisco while at the same time another murder of a homeless preacher who professes a story of hope to his liste More...
This one keeps you guessing along with the detectives as they try to solve some mysterious deaths occuring among the super-rich in San Francisco while at the same time another murder of a homeless preacher who professes a story of hope to his liste More...
May 25, 2009
Shonda
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The 8th Confession begins with a bombing of a school bus. Next Cindy Thomas discovers the mutilated body of a homeless man. Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin are working both cases. Things quickly get complicated when the super-rich are being targeted. Medical examiner Claire Washburn is stomped on the cause of their deaths. To her, it’s the perfect crime: no evidence has been left behind.
Meanwhile, Yuki Castellano is prosecuting a woman on trial for murdering her father and More...
Meanwhile, Yuki Castellano is prosecuting a woman on trial for murdering her father and More...
May 14, 2009
Rhonda
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The 8th Confession is the latest installment in James Patterson's Women's Murder Club series. This book finds the police officer, Lindsey Boxer, and her partner, Rich Conklin, trying to solve the murders of some of San Francisco's high society, but they can't determine the method or motive for the murders. An old friend of Lindsey's who works cold cases provides some information that proves to be helpful.
In the meantime, Cindy, the news reporter, discovers a homeless man, Bagman Jes More...
In the meantime, Cindy, the news reporter, discovers a homeless man, Bagman Jes More...
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May 05, 2009
Margaret
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Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club are back in this eighth installment in the series by James Patterson with Maxine Paetro. Will the murder club and friendships be torn apart by love as a murderer stalks the rich and famous?
On the way to work one morning, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner, Rich Conklin, encounter an explosion on a bus on the busy streets of San Francisco, but they immediately chalk it up as drug-related. Later, a homeless man is found executed—but since More...
On the way to work one morning, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner, Rich Conklin, encounter an explosion on a bus on the busy streets of San Francisco, but they immediately chalk it up as drug-related. Later, a homeless man is found executed—but since More...
Aug 12, 2009
Richard
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This is number 8 in the Women's murder club series and it literally starts with a bang. A school bus mysteriously explodes in downtown San Francisco killing 10 people including the driver.
An apparent homeless person is brutally murdered and two billionaire socialites die under unknown circumstances. Wait, there is another. Then two more. The street guy gets lost in the process. But Cindy Thomas of the Chronicle is hot on the chase.
Detective Lindsay Boxer, reporter Cindy a More...
An apparent homeless person is brutally murdered and two billionaire socialites die under unknown circumstances. Wait, there is another. Then two more. The street guy gets lost in the process. But Cindy Thomas of the Chronicle is hot on the chase.
Detective Lindsay Boxer, reporter Cindy a More...
May 20, 2009
Tim
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This is the first of the series that I actually read. I listened to all of the others on CD while working. I have come to the conclusion that's the best way to experience these books.
When I picked up the book at my library, I thought I'd mistakenly put the Large Print version on hold. Tons of white space, two or three page chapters. All short declarative sentences. Characters that don't act like themselves or real people...and who, if you haven't read the other books in the series, More...
When I picked up the book at my library, I thought I'd mistakenly put the Large Print version on hold. Tons of white space, two or three page chapters. All short declarative sentences. Characters that don't act like themselves or real people...and who, if you haven't read the other books in the series, More...
Jul 18, 2010
Veronica
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Typical James Patterson yarn...Great start with numerous "Page Turner" periods...Drags a bit in the middle...Then races to an abrupt conclusion. The murder weapon of choice, however, was a clever twist to so many murder mysteries I've read...Not only is the implement an "out-of-the-box" choice, but one that will leave you looking around floors and thoroughly searching your bed linens. As an aside, my analytical brain started wondering exactly "why" this title is a
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May 24, 2009
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Aug 28, 2011
Sandra
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OVERVIEW: As San Francisco's most glamorous millionaires mingle at the party of the year, someone is watching--waiting for a chance to take vengeance on Isa and Ethan Bailey, the city's most celebrated couple. Finally, the killer pinpoints the ideal moment, and it's the perfect murder. Not a trace of evidence is left behind in their glamorous home.
As Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile murder, someone else is found brutally executed--a preacher with a message of hope More...
As Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile murder, someone else is found brutally executed--a preacher with a message of hope More...
Nov 18, 2010
Jamie
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My opinion: I really wish I read these books closer together. By the time I got to this one, the rest of the books were just a distant memory, and it was hard to remember what exactly had happened up to this point. Luckily the stories tend to reflect back on what happened previously, but it still was hard to catch back up. So in this 8th installment in the Women's Murder Club series, a homeless man is shot and killed; at the same time, someone is killing the wealthiest in San Francisco. The enti
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Jul 13, 2010
Serena
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James Patterson and Maxine Paetro’s 8th Confession is read by Carolyn McCormick, and does a fine job differentiating between the characters. In this book, Lindsay Boxer is confronted with a personal, life-changing decision and is bogged down in several high-profile cases. Rich men and women are being murdered in their homes, but there is no cause of death — at least any that Claire can find during autopsy or through toxicology tests.
“Claire waved a computer printout, said, ‘Toxicol More...
“Claire waved a computer printout, said, ‘Toxicol More...
Jul 29, 2011
Predictable but entertaining, with lots of requited love, unlike many pop novels. The characters are attractive and cheerful, we learn the difference between an antivenin and and antivenom (actually, I'm still a bit shaky on that one), and things are resolved, however implausibly. The writing isn't great, but it isn't horrible either. It worked for me as I sat while plumbers made a hole in the ceiling of my closet, trying to get at a leaky pipe. It distracted me from their sketchy explanatio
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Jan 22, 2010
Sharal
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I keep thinking that this will be the last installment of "The Women's Murder Club" series that I will read as I have assumed, incorrectly, that Patterson can't take these characters any further without them becoming redundant. I love to be surprised and Patterson doesn't dissapoint as, once again, I am pleasantly surprised at what Lindsay, Claire, Yuki and Cindy find themselves thrust into.
I enjoyed the developing attraction between Lindsay and Conklin initially, but I am More...
I enjoyed the developing attraction between Lindsay and Conklin initially, but I am More...
Jan 25, 2012
Jenny
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As I go along into the series, the girls' friendship seems more and more fake. It is hard to imagine how close these girls are within the formula that Patterson and his co writer seem to write within. I also have noticed that the books are less about the Murder Club and more about individual people and their individual roles such as Lindsey being the super cop with all the hard cases and Yuki's appearances in court and how she loses everything and now with Cindy's new romance with Rich. It's
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Jun 30, 2009
Ivy
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A little bit confusing at the begining...seemed to take forever for everything to come together and make sense. Once it did though it was a good book...read it in two days...very fast read.
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Jul 29, 2011
Jessica
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Wow...a female serial killer whose love for her late father gave her the courage to carry out her beliefs! Her father cheated on his wife with the maid, from a prominant family, and got the maid pregnant. He loved his daughter that was born and taught her all about deadly, poisonus snakes, and she was the only one that carried his secret of the snake killer, that preyed upon rich families. Being jealous of her fathers real wife, his daughter at the age of 12 planted one of the deadly snakes in t
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Oct 17, 2010
Suzanne
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A bus blows up during rush hour in downtown San Francisco, it turns out to be a meth lab. Days later a bum who turns out to be a dangerous drug dealer is murdered. Meanwhile the City's upper crust are dropping dead for no apparent reason until a connection to a 20 year old cold case is discovered. Then there is an odd trial with a hung jury that promises to cost the state hundreds of thousands if it goes to retrial.
There is a lot going on in this book, and while it makes for a quick, More...
There is a lot going on in this book, and while it makes for a quick, More...
Aug 26, 2011
Riccarla
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It must be terrible to be rich in San Francisco because some psycho is always killing you or your friends. The really intriguing aspect is the murder weapon (whcih I can't tell you as it's a really great spoiler). There's also the case of who killed the homeless man, Bagman Jesus? It appears that he was beloved of all street people, so who would kill him?
If you enjoy James Patterson, you will enjoy this book. It helps to have read previous books so you know who all the characters a More...
If you enjoy James Patterson, you will enjoy this book. It helps to have read previous books so you know who all the characters a More...
