The 8th Confession James Patterson; Maxine Paetro

The 8th Confession

Author: James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

Publisher: Little Brown & Company

Publication Date: 27 April, 2009

ISBN: 9780316043588

Pages: 464

Subjects: Mystery

Available as: Trade Cloth, 978-0-316-04358-8 Trade Cloth, 978-0-316-01876-0 Trade Paper, 978-0-446-56133-4 E-Book - Open Ebook; EPUB, 978-0-316-05265-8

Description:

When a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless is found brutally executed, reporter Cindy Thomas knows the story could behuge. Probing deeper into the victim's history, she discovers he may not have been as saintly as everyone thought...

Rich, beautiful, and powerful, Isa and Ethan Bailey were living in the spotlight as San Francisco's perfect couple--until they are found dead in their luxurious home.

As the hunt for two criminals tests the skills of the entire Women's Murder Club, sparks begin to fly between Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner, Rich Conklin, making it difficult to stay focused on the case. The electrifying new chapter in the Women's Murder Club series, THE 8TH CONFESSION serves up the mile-a-minute twists that only James Patterson can deliver.

PW Publishers Weekly

Review Source: PW Annex Reviews

Review Date: 2009-05-11

Fans of Sex and the City ripoffs may best appreciate Patterson's eighth Women's Murder Club novel, his fifth coauthored with Patero (after 7th Heaven). Det. Lindsay Boxer, of the San Francisco police department, is searching for a killer who's knocking off the well-to-do without leaving any signs of violence on the bodies. The investigation is going nowhere until the department's repository of institutional memory recalls a series of unsolved killings from 1982, in which the unidentified perpetrator used a krait, a rare Indian snake, to poison the victims. Meanwhile, Boxer's gal pal, journalist Cindy Thomas, is pressing the police to devote resources to a low priority murder-that of a homeless man known as Bagman Jesus, whose real name is a mystery. The romance that develops between Thomas and Boxer's hunky partner, Det. Rich Conklin, includes a striking moment when Conklin, magician-like, slips "his hands into the flimsy fabric of her panties, making them disappear." (May) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.