2nd Chance


I was going to go through my spreadsheet of books and list them in order, but I think I will just put the reviews out there for the entire "Women's Murder Club" by James Patterson. If you missed the review for 1st To Die, scroll down and take a look.

Title: 2nd Chance
Author: James Patterson
Pages: Kindle
My Rating: 3.5 out of 5
My Comments: 2nd book in a promising series by James Patterson. This one wasn't as good as the first, but kept me very entertained throughout.

Amazon.com Review (Written by: Barrie Trinkle):
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 two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all the signs of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of San Francisco's homicide squad. But there's an odd detail she finds even more disturbing: both victims were related to city cops. A symbol glimpsed at both murder scenes leads to a racist hate group, but the taunting killer strikes again and again, leaving deliberate clues and eluding the police ever more cleverly. In the meantime, each of the women has a personal stake at risk--and the killer knows who they are.

2nd Chance speeds along at a Formula One pace through many tight curves, but unlike recent entries in the Alex Cross series, it doesn't sacrifice good characters to a twisted plot. Lindsay's the star, but there's a fine esprit de corps among the four women, who are even better developed here than in the first book. What makes them both convincing and interesting as a criminal-justice juggernaut is their willingness to stick their necks out, even if they suffer for it. If you haven't picked up a James Patterson novel in a while, this is a great time to start anew.

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