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The Christmas Wedding (2011)

I knew this would be a book without a lot of depth, but hey it's Christmas and a little fluff reading was what I was wanting. It wasn't even worthy of a good fluff rating. What did I expect when it's about a woman with grown children who decides to get remarried on Christmas Day?-----only she's n...

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I, Michael Bennett (2012)

Ok. Disappointed with the end, but I have the next book so no wait for me. I find it hard To believe that he would keep the kids at the lake house even after he knew they had been targeted. To top it off, the whole MC leaving. She needs to get over it. She is the nanny. His wife didn't die al...

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Private Berlin (2013)

This takes place in Berlin, Germany after the wall has come down. All the evil of the past have not come to light. In this story, the evil is a man who loves to kill people and watch them die. He has done this almost all of his life. Only a few children from before the wall came down, know wh...

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Maximum Ride Five-Book Set (2009)

I'm a science fiction fan and it has been a year ago since I first ran across this series in the library. I was surprised that I had not heard much about it in the hallways because usually when great books come out you usually hear everyone talking about it which is usually how I decide to read ...

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NYPD Red 2 (2014)

The NYPD Red unit is back for another high-thrills adventure, filled with both action and personal character growth. The 'Red' unit is pulled into capturing a serial murderer, labelled the HAZMAT KILLER when a high-profile political operative is found slain early one morning. With only a week lef...

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NYPD Red: À Margem da Lei (2014)

I like James Patterson, but was not a fan of this book. I like mysteries and being able to try to figure out who the culprit is. In this book you know almost from the beginning who the bad guys are. James Patterson has been one of my favorite writers but I have to admit that his recent novels c...

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I Funny: A Middle School Story (2012)

I loved this book, and I'm rooting for Jamie Grimm to win regionals in book two! Jamie isn't your normal protagonist. For one thing, he can deliver a punch line like someone many years his senior. For another, his comedic abilities are catapulting him into the limelight of comedy stardom, and he'...

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Um Casamento No Natal (2011)

Cute story. Occasional crude language but not throughout. A widow with four grown children decides to get married on Christmas day and requests that all of her children come to the wedding and to spend Christmas together. The unusual thing...she won't tell them whom she is marrying. She tells...

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Hope to Die (2014)

"It was ok" sums up my feelings towards this book fairly well. I borrowed it from a friend who bought in the airport on our way to New Zealand and couldn't fit it in his bag on the trip home. Spoilers follow.First of all I didn't love the narraters voice, it didn't seem to change despite the pers...

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Battle for Shadowland (2010)

Nice little side-episode to the adventures of Whit and Wisty as they fight the One Who Is The One. It bears to mention that you have to be at least familiar with what happens in the first book to fully understand all that happens and is mentioned. There are a couple of panels that try to give som...

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Second Honeymoon (2013)

A great book. A page turner! Exciting? Yes. Poorly written with a casual conversational tone and filled with cliches? Yes.

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Alex Cross, Run (2013)

Most books do not hold my attention. This is not the case with most of James Patterson's books. "Alex Cross, Run" is certainly no exception. I loved how there were 3 different lives that all got brilliantly intertwined in one big murder mystery. One of my favorite parts was reading from the view ...

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Daniel X: Alien Hunter (2008)

This 127 page comic by James Patterson tells the story of how one boy, Daniel X who has the superpower of creating anything on his mind, must continue his fathers job of exterminating all evil aliens. In this book, Daniel X is on the mission of destroying alien number 7, which means he is getting...

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James Patterson's Witch and Wizard: Battle for Shadowland (2011)

This book i would recommend for anyone who has read fang. Just like fang, they have this thing with finding out there true way of life. And for some reason both fang and this book have like something to do with there parents. This book is long but so was fang, writen by the same auther ( james pa...

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Private India (2014)

Can I give this book a zero star rating??? I just finished JP's Hope to Die and thought that maybe things were turning around for his books. They have been getting worse and worse...so much that I was on the brink of moving on to other (better?) authors like so many of my friends have. But when ...

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Merry Christmas, Alex Cross (2012)

I was shocked with the position Alex was put in, and I really felt bad for him for once. Most of what he encounters is by his own choice because he just can't seem to say no. This time he could not say no and I really felt bad for the position he was in.It is strange that I started reading the ...

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I Even Funnier (2013)

"I even funnier" was a good book and it was full of laughs and amusement. I recommend this book for people who need a laugh. This book had nothing really wrong with it and it had things that were relatable in life. I liked the part when Jamie Grimm was on stage performing his jokes and the part w...

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Treasure Hunters (2013)

I give it three and a half stars. (Why doesn't goodreads let us give half stars?)A work of epic refined literature this ain't, but it was a zany and fun read all the same.Sure I could have done without a few of those kinda crude "Middle School" jokes, and they sorta stereotyped a few of the main ...

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Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1 (2010)

Started today September 26th, 2012. The basic concept of the story reminds me of the "Virals"-Series by Kathy Reichs, which I like a lot. So I will probably breeze through this one. As an added bonus the series is finished, so I know how many books I have left to buy.So just finished it yesterday...

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Kill Alex Cross (2011)

A good thriller. First "Alex Cross" book I've read. This was an easy read once you got into it. However I am getting a bit bored of the Alex cross books

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MedHead: My Knock-down, Drag-out, Drugged-up Battle with My Brain (2010)

Very few people can relate to Cory's roller coaster ride that is his life. Everyone, though, can understand the pain and emotion that his dad and James Patterson translate on to each page for him. Having had a parent who constantly battled with regulating medications and finding a way to fight da...

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Med Head: My Knock-down, Drag-out, Drugged-up Battle with My Brain (2010)

Honestly, this is my favorite book to date that I've read! I found it easy to identify with the main character. It was also a book that causes a range of different emotions, from happy or proud to sad and scared. To know that the book is based off a true story written by the father makes it even...

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Maximum Ride, Vol. 5 (2011)

I didn't read book four (so missed out on the ITEX plot) but will read all the novels. I feel sorry for the other Max as she isn't treated as a person since she'll never live up to Max. Fang's haircut is hot, just saying. It's smart for Fang to blog what's happening to them. I'm surprised peo...

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12th of Never [Excerpt: First 17 Chapters] (2013)

Patterson is a fun summer beach read. But good grief this required more suspension of disbelief than most. The DA served a search warrant and searched a house. Lindsay went back to work early while she thought her new baby was dying? The bad guy plants his lover in the police department, and s...

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Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life - Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters (2000)

1. Written by James Patterson, level unknown2.12/9,10 80min3. Game over, buck up, detention, worse,argue,Tutoring, trouble4. I wrote a quick note on an old tardy slip and passed it. It's says "BUCK UP". She actually smiled when she read it.I like what Rafe did at this part. They were caught by te...

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Private: #1 Suspect (2012)

Overall, I did enjoy the storyline. The cases were interesting to me and they kept me reading. That is the part I was not disappointed in. The book had a good pace, and it kept me interested the whole way through. I was disappointed in the lack of character development. We don’t really learn anyt...

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Merry Christmas, Alex Cross -- Free Preview -- The First 18 Chapters (2012)

Alex finds himself trouble stacked on top of more trouble while his family copes with an Alex free anxiety laced Christmas. I really enjoyed this back to back adventure first, a once prominent lawyer takes his entire family hostage on Christmas day then we revisit an old terorist friend from book...

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Homeroom Diaries (2014)

The book I've read is called "Homeroom Diaries" by James Patterson. It's about a girl (Cuckoo) who kinda has mental problems and she and her "loser' friends stick together against all the haters at school. All of this is on Cuckoo's diary. What I like about this story is that the theme of this st...

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Save Rafe! (2014)

Middle School Save RafeBy James Patterson Review by Lili MessinaMiddle School Save Rafe is a book about a boy named Rafe who gets expelled from his school and then his new school gets closed. Rafe has to get back into Hills Village Middle School which is a public school but they will not accept ...

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Maximum Ride Forever (2000)

Honestly when I heard about this book I got a little upset. Don't get me wrong, I'm a die hard Maximum Ride fan, I just feel like I'm growing out of it and its been a while since Nevermore came out. I was seven when The Angel Experiment came out and I remember my grandmother buying it for me (she...

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Cradle and All (2001)

Parto verginaleNiente appassiona di più dell'eterna lotta tra il Bene e il Male, soprattutto quando di mezzo ci sono il Vaticano e i preti. Ne era ben consapevole anche James Patterson, quando, nel lontano 1980, decise di scrivere un thriller per dare la sua interpretazione al tema della Natività...

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Beach Road (2006)

After finishing this novel by James Patterson, I am very excited to read another one of his books because I was very pleased with this one. What started with multiple cold blooded execution like murders on the beach in the Hamptons one summer, leads into months and months of evaluation and a very...

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The Big Bad Wolf (2004)

"The Big Bad Wolf ... Not so Big, Not So Bad!!!"James Patterson is such a well known, prolific writer and sought after international author, that his numerous books have been read and reviewed a myriad of times, by people all around the globe.I generally try to read a fair percentage of other rev...

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The Beach House (2003)

Thursday, June 25, 2009Book Review - The Beach House by James Patterson & Peter De JongeThe Beach HouseI'm going to get right into it, without any skirting around - if you've never read a James Patterson novel, here's a great place to start. I've only read one other book by him, but The Beach Hou...

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Step on a Crack (2007)

First came ALEX CROSS.Then the WOMEN'S MURDER CLUB.Now meet Detective Michael Bennett, NYPD - and his ten children...Step on a Crack is Patterson at his simplest: A straight-forward, fast-paced thriller.It doesn't spend its time going too in-depth; what you see is what you get; and that works. I'...

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Judge & Jury (2006)

She glanced at Rosella, a little sympathetic now. These people were in for one scary ride... James Patterson and Andrew Gross - plus all of Mr Patterson's other co-authors - are my go to guys when I just want to read. And what I mean by that is I just want to sit and fly through a hooking book...

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The 6th Target (2007)

Three separate cases crop up in San Francisco to keep the Women's Murder Club quite busy. The first starts off on a beautiful day. A number of commuters and tourists are enjoying a nice ferry ride on the Bay. Shortly before reaching the dock, one of the riders notices a young mother who is scoldi...

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3rd Degree (2005)

The Women's Murder Club returns in a shockingly suspenseful thriller. Plunging into a burning town house, Detective Lindsay Boxer discovers three dead bodies...and a mysterious message at the scene. When more corpses turn up, Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner's offi...

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The Quickie (2007)

synopsis:Lauren Stillwell, a homicide detective from New York, is happily married to a handsome finance advisor, Paul. One day she decides to surprise her husband, visiting him at work during lunchtime. She sees Paul going out with an unknown, tall, slim blonde. They enter a posh St Regis hotel a...

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You've Been Warned (2007)

"COME HERE, MATE ... "You and your stupid fucking airport novels. Fucking lame titles. Can't even write a book without collaborating with someone else. "James Patterson featuring some douchebag you've even never heard of before". Mate, I could find more passion in a fucking Big Mac!!!And the ...

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2nd Chance (2005)

2nd Chance reconvenes the Women's Murder Club, four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner) who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles to solve a baffling series of murders in 1st to Die. This time, the murders of...

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1st to Die (2005)

James Patterson, bestselling author of the Alex Cross novels Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls, and Pop Goes the Weasel, offers the first of a new series dubbed The Women's Murder Club, featuring a four-woman team that occasionally works outside the system. None of the gritty darkness or frenzi...

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School's Out—Forever (2006)

Book title: Maximum Ride- School out ForeverAuthor: James PattersonPage: 416Wow, i start running with Max and the children again. I cannot wait anymore. Curiosity and excitement are my feeling right now. I have to read it immediately. Sorry, i will tell you next week...^^*************************...

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Jack & Jill (2003)

Third in the Alex Cross thriller series and revolving around Dr./Deputy Chief Alex Cross.My TakeYeah, Jack & Jill is one of the few stories I did not finish. I like his characters — that Alex is an intriguing man, and I adore his kids and Nana Mama. Sampson sounds pretty good too, hubba hubba.BUT...

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The Midnight Club (1999)

This is another of James Patterson's older titles. I am digging through the old ones since everyone says they are better than the new ones that have been coming out. Generally I like them.The main character for this one is a cop named John Stefanovich. He is a different kind of hero since he is c...

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Cat and Mouse (2007)

Originally seen on my book blog!Alex Cross’s (and mine) worst nightmare is back. Gary Soneji is back with a vengeance and will stop at nothing to get back at Alex Cross for “ruining his life.” Can he be stopped this time? While Alex is trying to stop Gary a second time, there is another killer on...

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Pop Goes the Weasel (2000)

Originally on my book blog!Can I just flail instead of write a review? This was a masterpiece and you should believe me because I don’t use that word often. Everything was fabulous in this book. The characters (that’s nothing new), the plot (also nothing new), the plot twists (go figure), and the...

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Roses are Red (2001)

tJames Patterson has always been a favorite author of mine, and I had my bar set high when I first opened the front cover of Roses are Red. In fact, the first part of the first sentence had me hooked; “Brianne Parker didn’t look like a bank robber or a murderer --” (3). Who wouldn’t want to read ...

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Along Came a Spider (2003)

First in the Alex Cross thriller series and revolving around Alex, a Washington D.C. detective with a background in psychology.My TakeThis is one of the few stories in which the movie adaptation is better. It wasn't until almost the end that Along Came a Spider started to more closely resemble th...

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Black Friday (2000)

Black Friday is one of James Patterson's earlier works. NYC is under siege by a secret militia group calling itself Green Band. The stock market is thrown into chaos when Green Band blows up several Wall Street institutions, essentially creating an economic world war. The entire first half of t...

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Honeymoon (2007)

The story revolves around Nora Sinclair and her life. She is madly in love with Connor, a business tycoon who proposes to the lady with a lovely diamond ring. Nora is a busy interior decorator and she shuffles across the county in order to fulfill her commitments. But there’s a twist in the stor...

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Kiss the Girls (2000)

Second in the Alex Cross thriller series and revolving around a black psychologist-detective in Washington D.C.My TakeI'm all the way up to page 7, and all I can think of is GROSS. How do people think like this! It's disgusting. And they seriously think this is okay???!He wants to feel real roman...

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The Thomas Berryman Number (1996)

2.5/5 StarsThe gripping story of a ruthless assassin,the woman he loves,and the beloved leader he is hired to kill...Conflicted and surprised, the two foremost emotions I feel right now...2.5/5 Stars is, I think, the lowest I've ever rated a book, especially one by James Patterson. But, this is n...

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Four Blind Mice (2003)

Reading a James Patterson novel is akin to eating soggy cereal -- eatable but not necessarily the first choice for breakfast. With that being said, I gave this one four stars. Call me a hypocrite, if you like. But the rating is not so much on Patterson's skills as a writer (which he has few, i...

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London Bridges (2005)

The appeal of James Patterson's work cuts wide and deep. He is not a stylist; one could harp on his occasionally choppy transitions, his sketchy descriptions, or his sometimes-irritating jump from first person to third. But what cannot be denied is that the man is a storyteller, which is what a w...

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The Angel Experiment (2006)

I want you, the reader, to take a moment and scroll down to the lists this novel has been shelved in. “Best Young Adult Books,” “Best Books Ever,” “What To Read After Harry Potter,” “Best Female Lead Characters,” and “Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books”. If you haven’t guessed by the titles, th...

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Hide and Seek (1997)

Within a few pages I could clearly see why James Patterson has sold a ridiculous amount of books. His style of storytelling is very simple (absolutely nothing wrong with that), and the action moves fluidly. Hide and Seek is only the second book written by James Patterson that I’ve read but I can ...

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The 5th Horseman (2006)

The Angel of Death hovers above the Municipal Hospital in San Francisco. Twenty mysterious and poorly explained deaths of sometimes young and often otherwise healthy people have occurred and it is time for answers. Maureen O’Mara, a successful young and attractive lawyer is bringing a class actio...

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4th of July (2006)

The Bestselling New Detective Series of the Decade Just Got Hotter, Deadlier, and More Suspenseful. In a deadly late-night showdown, San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer fires her weapon and sets off a dramatic chain of events that leaves a police force disgraced, a family destroyed, and...

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See How They Run (1997)

Not my cup of tea that's fer sure! I guess i am not a fan of Patterson's first books although i am now reading book #2 in his bibliography "Season Of The Machete". Being a WW2 and historic events enthusiast i was only too pleased to see a swastica on my cover (I ordered this book from Abebooks.co...

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Miracle on the 17th Green: A Novel about Life, Love, Family, Miracles ... and Golf (1999)

Miracle on the 17th GreenPart 1 SummaryIn the beginning of the Miracle on the 17th Green, you find out who the main character is. Travis McKinley opens the story while playing a round of golf, clearly in the zone. Round after round, he plays all 18 holes on the golf course and goes back to play...

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Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports (2007)

There was a metaphorical hole in my heart. A spiritual void and yearning for oblivion. My hands didn't want to turn the pages of the many books I own. Too lazy. What's the point? I'll still be me. Nothing on tv. All of these channels and NOTHING on. It's probably broken. There's no way that the ...

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The Lake House (2005)

I've heard Patterson's name every once in a while over the years but never got around to reading one of his books. Last week my husband and I went by a thrift store to drop off some yarn and I checked out their books. Saw this book, thought it sounded interesting, and thought, "Why not?"(Edit: ...

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Mary, Mary (2006)

A few flaws, but most will enjoy Patterson's latest Dr. Alex Cross thriller!We're a longtime Patterson reader and definitely prefer his solo-authored series featuring Alex Cross, now a top FBI specialist, to most of his collaborations with other writers in which presumably our famous author doesn...

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Cross Country (2008)

When the home of Alex Cross's longtime friend, Ellie Cox, is turned into the worst murder scene Alex has ever seen, he is devastated. The destruction leads him to believe that he's chasing a horrible new breed of killer. As Alex and his girlfriend Brianna Stone begin the hunt for the villain resp...

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The Best American Mystery Stories 2015

If not for my mother and her romance with our neighbor, Harold Timms, perhaps my uncle would have lived a quiet and unremarkable life, but of course that’s something we’ll never know. “He’ll do all right,” my father said one night at supper. He looked out the window and nodded his head. It was th...

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Black & Blue: BookShots (Detective Harriet Blue Series)

An ambulance was hot on their tail. They were heading towards Martin Place at an incredible speed. I’d been trying to get Chris Murray on the phone, but he wouldn’t answer. Finally I took Tox’s phone and dialled, hoping Murray wouldn’t recognise the number. ‘Chris Murray.’ ‘Murray you asshole,’ I...

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Midnight Club

A comfortable breeze streamed across the deck, where St.-Germain met with Cesar and Rafael Montoya, powerful drug underbosses from Colombia. The music of U2 played somewhere on the yacht. Revolutionary claptrap. Bono grieving for Ireland and other lost causes.Both of the Montoyas were impressed w...

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Alex Cross 16 (2011)

Each of the guest suites was occupied, the massage rooms, the dungeon, even the mezzanine was hopping with hot sex and related shenanigans — girl-boy, girl-girl, boy-boy, girl-boy-girl, whatever the customer wished. The entire house had been booked for a bachelor party that evening: five pretty-b...

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Break Point: BookShots

Foster had booked a table for eight o’clock, and he picked up Keller in good time to take a cab across the city. If he’d been alone he would have taken the Tube, but the Underground was no place for Kirsten Keller, especially as she had changed into a stunning black evening dress. ‘Good job it’s ...

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The Hostage: BookShots (Hotel Series)

He’d been witness to explosions, arrived first on scene after the discovery of decaying bodies hauled from London’s River Thames, and had had his emotions drained as the first responder to cases of domestic abuse. But nothing prepared him for the discovery he found in the new kitchens of the Lond...

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Alex Cross 02 - Kiss the Girls (2002)

Home again, home again, jiggitty-jig. First thing was to call her sister Carole Anne, who lived far away in Maine now. Then she called a few close friends in Chapel Hill. She reassured them that she was perfectly all right. That was total bullshit, of course. She knew that...

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Hunted

He crouched. ‘I mean, I can accept that the Establishment managed to convince everyone that it was a terrorist attack at the estate; that the world at large believes Kenneth Farmer and Cowie and Kiehl and Curtis and Boyd all died heroes trying to stop it. And I might not even have minded that you...

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Zoo II

I’m late to one of our frequent all-hands meetings, thanks to a pit stop at the lab’s infirmary to grab a fresh handful of painkillers. Over the past forty-eight hours, I’ve been popping those little guys like candy. I push open the door of the conf...

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Dead Heat

However, the older I’ve become, the more I’ve had to get used to it. Silva is not a bad captain. But he is young. And right now he’s nervous.‘You know this department is being watched?’ he says.He’s trying to stay level, and I guess I appreciate the effort.‘Let me ask you a question,’ I say. ‘Wou...

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Middle School: My Brother Is a Big, Fat Liar

I needed revenge. I know what you’re thinking: “Sheesh, Georgia’s been a little harsh on Rafe, hasn’t she?” Yeah. I have. But you need to understand something: He ruined my life. I had always loved school. I’d always been good at it. And now it was horrible, and it was all Rafe’s fault. He was my...

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Private Vegas

“It’s okay. We’re only five or six minutes away.” Justine dialed chief of police Mickey Fescoe’s cell phone. A woman’s voice was on the recording, Mickey’s assistant saying he was away for the weekend and to leave a message. “Mickey, it’s Justine Smith. We found two of the kids involved in the se...

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Run for Your Life

Much worse, I wasn’t getting anywhere.“Where’s my money, Bennett?” an angry voice shouted through my headset.I’d gotten to know that voice really well over the past seven and a half hours. It came from a nineteen–year–old gang hit man known as D–Ray — his real name was Kenneth Robinson — who was ...

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Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!

ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT IT Take a look at this,” Mrs. Ling said, and showed us a picture of an old garbage can. “And now this,” she said. “And this,” she said. “And this. “Quite often, the artist’s job is to show the world something familiar, but in a whole new way,” she said. “That’s your assi...

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Womens Murder Club - 07 - 7th Heaven (2011)

Humphrey Germaniuk, Captain Richard Conklin, Chuck Hanni, Dr. Allen Ross, Philip R. Hoffman, Melody Fujimori, Mickey Sherman, and Dr. Maria Paige. And special thanks to our excellent researchers, Ellie Shurtleff, Don MacBain, Lynn Colomello, and Margaret Ross, and to Mary Jordan, who keeps it all...

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Truth or Die

I said, although the “please” was hardly polite. It sounded more like Right away, dammit! I couldn’t help it. Not that it changed the officer’s answer on the other end of the phone. “He’s off duty, do you want his voice mail?” No, I want his actual ...

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The 8th Confession

Her hair was a shimmering shoulder-length cut in four shades of blond. Her finger- and toenails had been lacquered recently, oxblood red, no chips. She looked like the sleeping princess in the fairy tale waiting for the prince to chop through the briars and kiss her awake. I read her toe tag. "Sa...

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NYPD Red 4

Kylie said. “Saturday night is the loneliest night of the week.” “Then you’re in luck,” I said. “Another hour and twenty-seven minutes, and it will be Sunday morning.” We were back in the bowels of Hudson Hospital, scanning the monitors, looking for—no, make that hoping for—trouble. It was the se...

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10th Anniversary

And I have a baby not much older than Tyler. Could I just take a quick look at him? Please?” She reached out her arms toward the baby in Sandy Wilson’s arms. “I can’t get him to eat,” Sandy said in a voice that suddenly cracked with emotion. Claire hugged the girl and said, “It’s okay. It’s okay....

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The 9th Judgment

On the screen was a jumpy video of Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Claire Washburn attempting to drive away from the scene of the terrible shooting at the Pier 39 garage the night before. The vehicle’s egress was blocked by a crowd of onlookers made up of looky-loos, reporters,...

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NYPD Red

SCENE: EXT. FRANK E. CAMPBELL FUNERAL CHAPEL, MADISON AVENUE AND 81ST STREET—DAY PANDEMONIA PASSIONATA looks so pretty in her little black mourning dress as she waits patiently behind the police barricade at Ian Stewart’s memorial service. The mourners file slowly out of the chapel, but she ignor...

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Confessions: The Paris Mysteries

Urgently. That night, we sat in padded chairs on the terrace outside my room at the Hotel George V. The Eiffel Tower stood gloriously lit in the distance. But this billion-dollar view of Paris meant nothing to me. My brothers and I were under siege....

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The Postcard Killers

The sun had gone down but would be up again in a few hours. She lay there quietly, looking around her bedroom.Restless, she threw off the covers, pulled on a dressing gown, and went out to the kitchen.She drank a glass of water and then went into what was once the maid’s room, a little cubbyhole ...

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Mistress

I show my press credentials at the sign-in and the next thing I know, I’m in a plush waiting room. It reminds me of my visit to Jonathan Liu’s offices. It didn’t turn out so well for Jonathan. Let’s see how this turns out for Edgar Griffin.“Mr. Griffin will see you,” says an elderly woman who doe...

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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2001)

While she read a few more diary pages, she forced herself to eat pasta primavera and drink tea. It didn’t help. Everything was moving way too fast in her head, and especially inside her sore, bloated body. A baby boy had been born. Nicholas the Warr...

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Kill Me If You Can

One thirty-three in the afternoon. The building was drab, dilapidated, and depressingly quiet. Karns buzzed her in, and she took the stairs to apartment B4. A short, fat lump in gray sweatpants and an olive-drab T-shirt that said ART IS RESISTANCE stood in the doorway. “You Detective Krall?” he a...

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Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel

This could get messy.“Max — wait,” Angel said. “He doesn’t mean us harm.”“And you know this beca —,” I began sarcastically, then realized that she probably did actually know that. Dylan had a familiar alertness, a tensing of muscles that made me wonder if he’d been trained for battle. I guessed I...

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Sail (2008)

It certainly wouldn’t be for a lack of wanting on his part. It’s just that he wanted something else even more. Katherine’s estate. The ultimate score. Over $100 million if he survived both her and her obnoxious kids. If that was to happen, he needed to start playing the role of the distressed hus...

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The Dangerous Days of Daniel X (2008)

For Jack, Keelan, Cara, and Brynna True Confessions IF THIS WERE A MOVIE instead of real life, this would be the part where in a strange, ominous voice I’d say, “Take me to your leader!” But since you are far more important in making a difference in this world than the earth’s leaders, and last t...

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Middle School: How I Got Lost in London

Miller the Killer got a big laugh with his impression of my “Here.” His sounded like a witch. Mine had sounded like a hiccupping, burping strangled frog but his sounded like a witch. What I’m trying to say is that even though his didn’t even sound like mine, he still got a laugh. I actually broke...

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When the Wind Blows

He jogged back to the car, and he actually looked better. He had some of his color back. He told me that his old boss had finally listened. “I don’t know how much he believed, but he believed some of it. He’s sending agents here.” The feeling I had, the crazy imagery in my...

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Jack Morgan 02 - Private London

It landed with a heavy thud on the polished wooden floor, taking large chips out of it. I didn’t feel guilty.Luckily, no alarm bells had gone off. Score one for the good guys.Expensive rugs were positioned around the room. A small TV in the corner. Matching burgundy leather sofas with tartan fabr...

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Private Royals: BookShots (A Private Thriller)

Even at the late hour, gaggles of tourists mixed with the civil servants who emerged bleary-eyed from the magnificently appointed buildings that had once been the heart of the world’s most powerful empire. Cook caught Morgan’s appraising eye on the many poppy wreaths and memorials that lined the ...

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Don't Blink

I TOLD BRISON, quickly wiping away the sweat dripping from my forehead. Zambratta was still hugging the side of the elevator. He hadn’t moved. What was he up to? And where the hell was the elevator? The damn thing should’ve reached the lobby by now, right? And then — DING! Right on cue. The eleva...

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London Bridges: A Novel

The entire area, a maze of lanes and dead-end streets, was nearly flattened. Close to a thousand people died immediately, or at least within a few seconds. The terrible multiple explosions were heard, and felt, all over Paris. The Louvre suffered only minor damage from the...

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Against Medical Advice (2008)

Trust me on that — it could be lower by now. There’s nothing between me and the snow except my sleeping bag and a four-foot-square tarp mounted on sticks over my head. I’m a mile up in the mountains of Wyoming, a few hundred miles northeast of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, which have just starte...

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Alert: (Michael Bennett 8)

But nothing is even close to normal, I thought as I pulled into the parking lot across from its famous brown awning. Emily and I weren’t there to chow down on some USDA Prime but to meet up with Chief Fabretti. They’d put the mayor in the ground at Queens’s Calvary Cemetery this morning, and a lo...

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Burn (Michael Bennett 7)

She lived in a beautiful six-story brownstone building that she buzzed us into after we arrived and gave her a call.Holly Jacobs was a striking, well-dressed and well-put-together middle-aged black woman with a short Vogue-ish asymmetrical bob haircut. Her white-on-white apartment was sleek and m...

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Chase (2016)

It was metal, in the shape of an arrow, lying rusted on the ground beneath a cracked wood beam. Big Country Secret Cavern, it read, in Jet Age 1950s script. It was Joe Walke’s idea. If he wasn’t convinced by my story, he knew we were in danger when ...

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Hunted: BookShots

He was wearing white boxers, not his own, but otherwise was just as he had been the day before. Whoever had gone to the trouble of changing his underwear had obviously stopped short of giving him a bath into the bargain. Very sensible. Hanging from the handle of a built-in wardrobe opposite the e...

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Miracle at Augusta (2015)

This time I park and walk around to the main entrance, where I inform the guard I have an appointment with the assistant dean of students, Reece Halsey. On the way to Halsey’s office, I must make a wrong turn, because instead of entering the administrative wing, I find myself in a wide hallway li...

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Private L.A.

Chapter 88 “THEY DECIDE IT is better to pay ten million dollars than seven,” Cobb said quietly when Alice, the waitress who had taken their lunch order, walked away. “Why?” He and the rest of his men, Watson, Nickerson, Hernandez, and Kelleher, sat in a booth at the Robby Eden Café on Atlantic Av...

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14th Deadly Sin: (Women’s Murder Club 14)

Yuki pushed in the outer door and pressed the intercom button marked KORDELL. The buzzer blared and Yuki climbed three stinking flights of graffiti-tagged stairs and knocked on the door at the end of the hallway. A woman cracked the door open. “I’m Yuki Castellano. Mr. Jordan from the Defense Lea...

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Confessions: The Private School Murders

I knew from experience that the room was furnished with velvet chairs, usually grouped into conversational circles, and that there were tapestries and photos of old New York everywhere, but all you could see today were the tenants of the building standing shoulder to shoulder as Officer Frank fro...

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15th Affair

Then he let me have it. “You’re overtired. You could have been killed. You have nothing on the guys who beat you—nothing. No names, vague descriptions, and you didn’t get a lick in. You know what that tells me, Linds? That you’re off your game. It’s Sunday. Day of rest and you should take it. Go ...

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Confessions of a Murder Suspect

If Maud had told Samantha that my father was having an affair, Samantha would have kept her confidence as a matter of principle. I left the kitchen and went down the hall to Samantha’s room. I knocked, and when she didn’t answer the door, I turned the knob, entered her ver...

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Tick Tock

I turned away as a crying female ME assistant knelt by Angela, getting ready to move her. Her father, mercifully sedated, was out in an ambulance on East 58th. I wished I were as well. “What do you think?” I said to Emily as we stepped along the rows of toys for the exit. “Does this dump fit in w...

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Armageddon

“This was the battle I had been preparing for, Daniel. In Kansas.” “When Number 1 came for you and Mom?” My father nodded. “But why were you training to fight Number 2? Why not Number 1? If you had concentrated on the top gun…” “It was my mission, Daniel. It was why your mother and I came to this...

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Private Oz

It was just past noon. Mary stood on the sidewalk, pulled on her shades and waited a moment for me to get out of the car and lock it. I led the way to the store, keeping the keys in my hand. The manager’s office was at the back. A girl standing on some steps filling shelves pointed the way. “Take...

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Nevermore: The Final Maximum Ride Adventure

Ratchet said angrily, standing over Fang. “You’re not kicking us to the curb now, when we still gotta get back at that fanged freak. No way, man.”Fang nodded, staring into the smoldering embers of their campfire. He was aching all over, and his shirt was still covered in Maya’s blood. “Sorry.”“Is...

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French Kiss (2016)

“So that’s it. The clients don’t pay us girls directly. It’s all online, I guess. I don’t really know. When it was over, I just left.” Burke speaks. “Detective Moncrief and I want to thank you. We know this has been tough.” “I wish I could have help...

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Witch & Wizard 04 - The Kiss

My eyes stream from the smoke, I’m coughing uncontrollably, and the heat is so intense I feel like I’m roasting from the inside out. But somehow, Janine’s still getting colder. Her lips are blue and her hands are icy. Life is draining right out of h...

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Miracle on the 17th Green

I asked Earl, as I walked over to his table at the back of the bar and handed him one. “I think I may have heard it maybe three times,” said Earl, looking up from his Barron’s. Earl had finished a very respectable thirty-fourth in the final standings. It wasn’t good enough to make the tour, but h...

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Black Market

Nervously clutching Billie Bogan with his good arm, he steered her in a protective manner through the onrushing tide of people on Fifth Avenue. He didn't want to think about the resumption of Green Band, not for a few more hours, anyway. David Hudson's self-consciousness w...

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Swimsuit

The trappings were important, but the art of disguise was in the gestures and the voice, and then there was the X Factor. The element that truly distinguished Henri Benoit as a first-class chameleon was his talent for becoming the man he was pretending to be. At half past ...

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Cross Justice

Parks Jr., clouded a bit at my use of his nickname, but then he realized who I was and broke into a grin. “Alex,” he said, grabbing my hand and pumping it. “Last time I saw you, you gave me a piggyback on the sidewalk in front of Nana Mama’s place.” I had a vague vision of that and said, “Long ti...

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The Gift

I’m with Celia, and that’s all that matters for the moment. “I had the weirdest dream about you,” I tell her. “I was running from dozens of Lost Ones —” “We only have a short time together,” interrupts Celia. “Let’s not waste it.” ...

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Zoo 2 (2016)

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Cross Fire

No criminal records anyway. Accordingly, there was no way to know whether they’d all come off the same person or not. I thought about Max Siegel’s offer of help the other day. With the Bureau’s resources, he probably could have gotten further with these than Detective Scott Cowen had. But I just ...

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Let's Play Make-Believe (2016)

I stopped and spoke with Allie at the front desk, then rushed to my room. One advantage of living in such a tiny space is that nothing ever takes long to find. I was back in the car in a few minutes and found Marty listening to the Moody Blues on the radio. As I drove thro...

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The Trial (2016)

I parked my car on Jackson Street, buttoned my coat, and lowered my head against the cold April wind as I trudged toward the brightly lit Caribbean-style eatery frequented by the Women’s Murder Club. My feet knew the way, which was good, because my mind was elsewhere. King...

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$10,000,000 Marriage Proposal (2016)

As Caroline exited the elevator on the third floor, it occurred to her that her mother, who had reacted to the name of the business, had never explained what it was and why she was so excited by it. And Caroline had failed to google it. Her hand went to her pocket, toying with her phone. Now she ...

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