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HarperCollins Along Came a Spider
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Headline Review Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd The Beach House
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Mary, Mary
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HarperCollins Black Market
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AuthorHouse The Thirteen
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Headline Review Cat and Mouse
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HarperCollins Midnight Club
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd 4th July
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd London Bridges
<I>London Bridges</I> is something of a departure for James Patterson's Alex Cross novels in that it contains a serious speculation about what would--some might say, what will--happen if international crime copies the methods of terrorists or forms an alliance with them. The Russian mafia boss known as the Wolf delivers an ultimatum--large cash payments will be made and various prisoners released, or he will set off nuclear explosions in London, New York, Paris and Tel Aviv.<p> To prove his seriousness, he has already destroyed several small townships and a couple of bridges; this book inhabits a world where people will murder thousands just to prove that they are serious. Cross's usual ability to get inside the mind of a killer is far more of a problem when the killer is a man who has successfully erased his past, who communicates through cut-outs and expendable hirelings. Patterson's terse chapters and breakneck pacing are effective here--with its extended displays of insider knowledge and casual attitude to torture, this is not a likeable book, but it is a suspenseful one.--<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd London Bridges
<I>London Bridges</I> is something of a departure for James Patterson's Alex Cross novels in that it contains a serious speculation about what would--some might say, what will--happen if international crime copies the methods of terrorists or forms an alliance with them. The Russian mafia boss known as the Wolf delivers an ultimatum--large cash payments will be made and various prisoners released, or he will set off nuclear explosions in London, New York, Paris and Tel Aviv.<p> To prove his seriousness, he has already destroyed several small townships and a couple of bridges; this book inhabits a world where people will murder thousands just to prove that they are serious. Cross's usual ability to get inside the mind of a killer is far more of a problem when the killer is a man who has successfully erased his past, who communicates through cut-outs and expendable hirelings. Patterson's terse chapters and breakneck pacing are effective here--with its extended displays of insider knowledge and casual attitude to torture, this is not a likeable book, but it is a suspenseful one.--<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd 4th of July
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Mary, Mary
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Mary, Mary
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd The Big Bad Wolf
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Lifeguard
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Roses Are Red
Part of the motive of serial killers is simply to prove that they are better--better than their victims and better than the police investigating them. Mastermind, the villain of James Patterson's new thriller <I>Roses are Red</I>, goes one better--he does not even have to do all his own killings, simply manipulate the bank robbers he gathers for progressively more vicious hostage takings into ever more bloody massacres. Psychologist-investigator Alex is already coping with the aftermath of a previous case--the woman he loves has been so badly traumatised by the killer who abducted her for months that she does not want to be near him or their child; and now he finds himself dealing with a case where completely arbitrary decisions about who lives and who dies are the order of the day. Mastermind is ahead of the game each step of the way--this is a novel about the pain of betrayal as well as the pain of responsibility; Alex is a flawed, clever man driven near to breaking point by the knowledge that, if he guesses things wrong, people will die, and that they may die anyway just to spite him. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd 3rd Degree
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HarperCollins Jack and Jill
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Renowned suspense writer and Edgar Award winner James Patterson, author of such bestsellers-turned-blockbuster -films as <I>Along Came a Spider</I> and <I>Kiss the Girls</I>, exposes his sensitive side in his new novel, <I>Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas</I>. Katie Wilkinson's boyfriend Matt dumps her but to show he's not a total cad, he leaves her a gift, a diary kept by Suzanne, his first wife, for their son Nicholas. Though it's not exactly the diamond ring Katie was hoping for, she's unable to make herself destroy the diary-- against her better judgment, Katie begins to read.<p> Drawn against her will into the other woman's world, Katie learns of doctor Suzanne's heart attack at age 35 and her decision to slow down, accomplished by a move to Martha's Vineyard and a new job as a simple country doctor. When love comes knocking, in the form of housepainter-cum-poet Matt Harrison, Suzanne is ready to listen to her newly repaired heart. Though painful for Katie, she begins to know and like Suzanne and her infant son Nicholas. Suzanne's devotion to Matt and their son shines through, as well as her plainspoken wisdom. While the journal helps Katie understand Matt, whether they can write a future together remains in question. <I>--Alison Trinkle, Amazon.com</I>
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd The Lake House
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Honeymoon
Anyone who has missed good suspense novels should put <i>Honeymoon</i> on their list straight away. James Patterson has always been fascinated by serial killers, yet he has tended in the past to stick with the boys; in Nora Sinclair, he and Howard Roughan create a classic Black Widow, who kills her suitors and husbands for their wealth. John O'Hara knows most of the truth about Nora, but until his investigations get close to her, he has no idea of just how much charisma and appeal she brings to the job of murder. And Nora, thinking him just an insurance agent, is surprised by how much she thinks about him, and not necessarily as a future victim. There is a quirky romance here, full of lies and deceit and also genuine feeling and a sense of menacing jeopardy for both viewpoint characters. The story-telling is Patterson's usual fast-paced staccato narration, but it has time for some interesting side-bar issues--there are things in both Nora and John's pasts and presents which only gradually come to our attention. --Roz Kaveney.
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd 3rd Degree
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd The Jester
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd The 5th Horseman
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd London Bridges
<I>London Bridges</I> is something of a departure for James Patterson's Alex Cross novels in that it contains a serious speculation about what would--some might say, what will--happen if international crime copies the methods of terrorists or forms an alliance with them. The Russian mafia boss known as the Wolf delivers an ultimatum--large cash payments will be made and various prisoners released, or he will set off nuclear explosions in London, New York, Paris and Tel Aviv.<p> To prove his seriousness, he has already destroyed several small townships and a couple of bridges; this book inhabits a world where people will murder thousands just to prove that they are serious. Cross's usual ability to get inside the mind of a killer is far more of a problem when the killer is a man who has successfully erased his past, who communicates through cut-outs and expendable hirelings. Patterson's terse chapters and breakneck pacing are effective here--with its extended displays of insider knowledge and casual attitude to torture, this is not a likeable book, but it is a suspenseful one.--<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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HarperCollins Along Came a Spider
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
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AuthorHouse The Lazarus Pit
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd 1st to Die
James Patterson inaugurates a new crime series with the impressively complex <I>First to Die</I>: 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. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Feature Cat and Mouse
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd 4th of July
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Feature When the Wind Blows
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Violets Are Blue
Fans of James Patterson's resourceful black cop Alex Cross will be relieved to find that he's back on familiar territory with <I>Violets Are Blue</I>--and (more importantly) it's one of the best Alex Cross thrillers in many a moon. <p> The malign criminal genius of <I>Roses Are Red</I> is back and fixing to give Alex a hard time once again. The FBI joins Patterson's dogged cop in a particularly unsettling investigation: two San Francisco joggers have been viciously murdered and are found suspended by their feet, with all the blood drained from their bodies. And when further brutal deaths follow in California and on the east coast, Alex is forced to contemplate the bizarre possibility of modern-day vampires, although his instincts point him to one of the many sinister religious cults that flourish on the West Coast. Aided by Jamilla Hughes, a streetwise young woman detective from San Francisco, Alex finds that he has to crack not one but two impenetrable mysteries to stop further bloodletting. <p> Readers of Patterson expect the extremely concise, page-turning chapters (116 of them), along with a reluctance to dawdle over details of his hero's personal life, and both characteristics are firmly back in place. If you can resist reading this one in just a few sittings, you deserve some kind of a thriller-reader's medal. --<I>Barry Forshaw</I>
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Feature Cradle and All
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Honeymoon
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Honeymoon
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd 2nd Chance
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Pop Goes the Weasel
Likened to a young Muhammad Ali, Alex Cross, the Porsche-driving profiler, doctor, detective and father of two has seen his fair share of vicious killers. From a bloodthirsty butcher who came after his family (<I>Cat and Mouse</I>) to a devilish duo working cross-country (<I>Kiss the Girls</I>), Cross has managed to out-manoeuvre all of his enemies. Until he meets the Weasel.<p>A series of killings in the forgotten, crime-infested ghettos of southeastern DC has sent Cross and his 6'9 250-pound-partner, John Sampson in search of the Jane Doe killer. However, their racist, tyrannical boss George Pitman orders them to stay out of the southeast and investigate the high-profile murder of a wealthy white man. Cross already has suspicions that the murders are linked, but when Sampson's ex turns up in an abandoned southeast warehouse kicked to death, the two detectives carry on with their original investigation.<p>Meanwhi le, Cross's long-time love, Christine, (<I>Cat and Mouse</I>) has taken prominence in his life and it looks as if the two will finally get hitched--with one hitch: Cross leaves the force. Although Cross's instinct tells him to quit--to not put everything he loves in jeopardy again--he's compelled to catch the Weasel. Akin to a slick, Hollywood action flick, <I>Pop Goes the Weasel</I> doesn't have time for meaningful character development and thoughtful moral analysis. And it doesn't need to. Its winning formula is based in short scenes (chapters average about three pages), addictive plot progression and mean dialogue: <blockquote>Sampson sighed and said, I think her tongue is stapled inside the other girl. I'm pretty sure that's it, Alex. The Weasel stapled them together. I looked at the two girls and shook my head. I don't think so. A staple, even a surgical one, would come apart on the tongue's surface... Crazy glue would work.</blockquote>< I>This review refers to the hardback edition of this title.</I> --<I>Rebekah Warren</I>
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd 2nd Chance
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd The 5th Horseman
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd The 5th Horseman
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd 4th of July
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HarperCollins Kiss the Girls
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Headline Special Sales Headline Thriller Boxset
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Time Warner International See How They Run
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Greenwood Press James Patterson: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers)
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Four Blind Mice
There's absolutely no denying the fact that it's impossible to put down a Patterson thriller once it's been picked up--and <I>Four Blind Mice</I> is no exception. And it's not just the cliff-hanging chapters: Patterson is a stylist of real distinction, and in Alex Cross he has created one of the most memorable (and durable) protagonists in the genre (no mean achievement, given Patterson's avoidance of the usual clichés: recovering alcoholic cop, endless conflict with superiors, etc.).<p> Having fought a bloody battle with a criminal mastermind, the weary Alex has decided to leave the Washington Police Force. Another factor in his decision is a new romance: his life has changed since he met the seductive Jamilla Hughes. But (readers won't be surprised to hear) Alex is persuaded by John Sampson to take on one final case: his closest friend has been indicted for a grisly double murder. Fingerprints and DNA evidence link the suspect with two women who have been savagely knifed at an army base, but Alex comes to believe that he's looking at a frame-up. And as the resourceful detective cuts through a swathe of intrigue to uncover both a complex plot and a malign opponent, he finds himself in quite as much danger as in any of his confrontations with super-intelligent serial killers. Those familiar with previous Patterson novels as will know exactly what to expect here. If there is less time than usual spent on developing Alex's personality, that's because Patterson is more than ever putting his skills at the service of an extremely fast-moving narrative. <I>Four Blind Mice</I> will keep Patterson admirers more than happy. --<I>Barry Forshaw</I>
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Sam's Letters to Jennifer
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd 1st to Die
James Patterson inaugurates a new crime series with the impressively complex <I>First to Die</I>: 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. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd The Beach Road
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd The Beach Road
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd The Lifeguard
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Miracle on the 17th Green
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Judge and Jury
And still they come, the James Patterson novels written in tandem with Andrew Gross--the latter a writer we've only heard of because... he writes novels in tandem with James Patterson. But as <i>Judge and Jury</i> proves, this is a team that breaks all the rules of these double novels (in which a top writer's synopsis is worked up by another writer lower down the feeding chain). The Patterson/Gross books are often as compulsive reads as Patterson's solo efforts, and while the tagline of this one ('the ultimate legal thriller') may be optimistic, it's still a pretty pacy piece of work, with a strong central premise. <P>Struggling actress Andie DeGrasse is finding her acting career in low gear as she copes with the demands of being a single mother. When she finds herself on jury duty, she hopes that she can shuck her responsibilities by telling the judge that she's played a stripper in <i>The Sopranos</i>. But she still finds herself as juror number 11 in a highly important trial involving a mob boss with a really nasty reputation. Bringing Mafia Don Dominic Cavello to trial has been the crowning achievement of senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante, who has been on Cavello's tale for years. The Don, known as `The Electrician', is famous for his many grisly crimes, but this time it looks like he's about to go down for good. But as the jury moves towards a verdict, the Don does something that throws everything into chaos--including the life of actress and reluctant juror Andie. A bitter battle ensues, in which Andie and Nick Pellisante are obliged to form a partnership that will either save both their lives--or end them.<p> What makes this one particularly diverting is the canny juggling of a variety of elements, all of which are granted equal emphasis by Patterson and Gross. As always with the team, no effort is wasted on elegant writing--this is rigorously functional stuff, designed with one purpose: to keep us reading. And that task the authors pull off with very little effort.<p>--<I>Bar ry Forshaw</I>
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AuthorHouse Sphinxes
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Umbriel Luna de Miel Honeymoon
Anyone who has missed good suspense novels should put <i>Honeymoon</i> on their list straight away. James Patterson has always been fascinated by serial killers, yet he has tended in the past to stick with the boys; in Nora Sinclair, he and Howard Roughan create a classic Black Widow, who kills her suitors and husbands for their wealth. John O'Hara knows most of the truth about Nora, but until his investigations get close to her, he has no idea of just how much charisma and appeal she brings to the job of murder. And Nora, thinking him just an insurance agent, is surprised by how much she thinks about him, and not necessarily as a future victim. There is a quirky romance here, full of lies and deceit and also genuine feeling and a sense of menacing jeopardy for both viewpoint characters. The story-telling is Patterson's usual fast-paced staccato narration, but it has time for some interesting side-bar issues--there are things in both Nora and John's pasts and presents which only gradually come to our attention. --Roz Kaveney.
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd 3rd Degree
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Headline Book Publishing Ltd Lifeguard
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Shipping: refer to store website
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£3.49
at Amazon.co.uk
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