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James Patterson
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Pages: 480 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0747266905
Pub: Headline Book Publishing
Pub date: 2002-04-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4454
Editorial Review:
James Patterson inaugurates a new crime series with the impressively complex First to Die: the Women's Murder Club, a group of San Francisco professionals--a homicide cop, an assistant district attorney, a pathologist and a reporter--share their information and thinking on cases. Someone is killing honeymoon couples on their first night together and nothing that we know about the killer is, we realise, entirely reliable: the connections between the victims are tenuous and the killer's method varies significantly. Intelligent, sensitive, tough cop Lindsay Boxer has problems of her own--a potentially fatal blood condition and a suspicion that she is falling for the intelligent divorced spin-doctor forced on her as partner by a publicity-conscious city government. The conversations she has with her friends are partly a matter of looking again at the results of legwork--sometimes explaining something to people who do not share your automatic assumptions makes you look at it again--and partly a matter of sharing expertise; rapidly they realise that they are up against someone for whom murder is a sexual game. Patterson has always had an eye for the psychology of killers--here he adds empathy for those to whom caring about victims is a way of life. --Roz Kaveney
Reader Reviews:
Gripping Plot ! (0/0 people found this helpful)
I recently read this book as part of a task set in my English group. I found it very enjoyable and I couldn't wait to read further into the story as the murders continued. I didn't give this 5 stars because there were some things I did not like about the book. The fact that the main character gets a disease is quite sad and also when the person she falls in love with gets shot, I felt that maybe he should have made some kind of recovery? Nothing seems to go well for the main character as the story goes on. I found the twist with the real killer being a woman quite a suprise, however the fact that she dressed up as a man to commit the murders I found that quite unrealistic/unbelievable that someone would really do that. The ending was really good though as I wasn't expecting it. It's a good first installment to what I hope is a great series as I can't wait to read the next one!
Great Read (0/0 people found this helpful)
I've read a lot of James Patterson's novels now and was looking forward to read this. It's his first novel in a series called "The Women's Murder Club".
It follows the murder inspector Lindsay Boxer and the gruesome murders that she comes across, they all have one thing in common, but I'm not going to tell you and spoil it for you. She turns to three people that she can trust for help, and they're all women
Although I did enjoy the novel, I did find it rather slow to start, it did get slightly better, I'm hoping to read the others in the series but I hope they move a lot faster then this.
I was a little disappointed with this, compared to his other novels I've read it's not something I'll read again.
Absolubtly Amazing! I could not sleep untill I had finished this book! (0/0 people found this helpful)
Amazing!... i am totally hooked on James Patterson's books!
Everytime i buy his book, i cannot put it down... i have not read a bad one yet.
I was expecting a big twist at the end, but nothing prepared me for what it was!....
Brillient book. 5*****
Predictable American slush (2/4 people found this helpful)
I am astounded that anyone can enjoy this sort of rubbish. Patterson chucks these books out at an incredible rate to make afew more bucks. I am sure he can write but does he need to when this sells?
High five for the ladies! (0/2 people found this helpful)
I started this book slighly confused by thinking who is the the homicide cop, the assistant district attorney, the pathologist and the reporter.
But as I read on it was clear who was who? I loved this book and was quite sad when Lindsay's love interest died.
I think the reporter was in the background alot of the time with little or no contribution at all but towards the end she developed herself.
Good read!
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