FICTION
Released: March 4, 2002
"Lots of slam-bang action, though, except for Lindsay, the alleged action heroines mostly have it happen to them instead of dishing it out."
A murder outside San Francisco's La Salle Heights Church brings back the Women's Murder Club, extending a series (
1st to Die, 2001) that could rival Kinsey Millhone for sales, if not for ingenuity, warmth, or humanity.
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FICTION
Released: June 10, 2002
"A vigilante pipe-dream topped off by toothlessly shocking revelations about characters even less substantial than the celebrity cameos: Dominick Dunne, Latrell Sprewell, Geraldo Rivera, and Billy "Mudman" Simon."
Not to fear: Just because megaselling Patterson has teamed up once more with journalist collaborator de Jonge (
Miracle on the 17th Green, 1996) doesn't make the pace of this slick, ludicrous thriller any slower, the puppets any more complex, or the sentences any longer.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 18, 2002
"Short chapters, paragraphs, and sentences; stilted dialogue; facile plotting; a few feeble passes at description: a Patterson blue-plate special."
Schematic and pedestrian, Patterson's latest (after
The Beach House, p. 519) pits Alex Cross against a trio of serial killers.
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FICTION
Released: June 9, 2003
"Patterson's sensibility dovetails perfectly with that of his prodigies, whose tender feelings and pitch-perfect teenage dialogue are the best things here. It's only when human grownups have to talk and act that this overblown saga sags."
This sequel to Patterson's bestselling, and best, novel (
When the Wind Blows, 1998) soars, like its appealing cast, only intermittently.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 5, 2003
"As in summer movies, a triple dose of violence conceals the absence of real menace when neither victims nor avengers stir the slightest sympathy."
Dr. Alex Cross has left Metro DC Homicide for the FBI, but it's business as usual in this laughably rough-hewn fairy tale of modern-day white slavery.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 11, 2005
"Speed, suspense, excitement. (Science fiction. YA)"
