A rough stretch for watchable movies at the theaters, and a terribly long time between posting book reviews equals my thoughts on The 9th Judgment.

Title: The 9th Judgment
Author: James Patterson
Pages: Kindle
My Rating: 3.5 out of 5
My Comments: 9th book in series. Started out very strong, kept me wanting to read but the last 25% of the book almost seemed like the writer was just hurrying to get it done. Still a great series, and am still looking forward to the 10th book.

Amazon.com Review:
The most personal

A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick.

The most dangerous

The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars' worth of precious jewels. In just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria.

The most exciting Women's Murder Club novel ever

Lindsay spends every waking hour working with her partner, Rich--and her desire for him threatens to tear apart both her engagement and the Women's Murder Club. Before Lindsay and her friends can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her own life on the line--but is it enough to save the city? With unparalleled danger and explosive action, The 9th Judgment is James Patterson at his compelling, unstoppable best!

It has been a tragically long time since I have been able to make it to the movie theater. Sometimes work and real life just don't realize how badly I need my popcorn and diet soda. In the mean time I am going to post a couple of book reviews for you so I can hopefully get through this series of posts on the James Patterson series of The Woman's Murder Club.

Title: The 8th Confession
Author: James Patterson
Pages: Kindle
My Rating: 2 out of 5
My Comments: 8th book in series. Probably my least favorite of the 8 so far. Could have been the setting in which I read the first half of it(on a plane) but it just didn't do it for me. Not a huge fan of a book using a snake as the murder weapon.

Amazon.com Review (Credit to Publishers Weekly):
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."

Ah, what the hell? Let's get wild and post a 3rd book review in one night! S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT!

Title: 7th Heaven
Author: James Patterson
Pages: Kindle
My Rating: 4 out of 5
My Comments: 7th book in series. Loved reading this one. I read it in 2 or 3 days and really enjoyed it. A little love story mixed in with the mystery helped as well. Note: Since it has been a little while since I wrote those original comments, I am just going to go ahead and guess that the "love story" that I am referring to means there were some "adult scenes" in this book. You're welcome.

Amazon.com Review (Credited on their website to Publishers Weekly):
At the start of the gripping seventh Women's Murder Club thriller from bestseller Patterson and Paetro (after 2007's The 6th Target), San Francisco is still haunted by the disappearance of Michael Campion, the much-adored teenage son of a former California governor, three months earlier. Following up on a tip that Michael was last seen entering a prostitute's house, homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer and her new partner, Rich Conklin, are shocked when the hooker immediately confesses that Michael, who had a heart defect, died during sex and she disposed of his body. Lindsay's ADA pal, Yuki Castellano, is sure she has a slam-dunk case, but the trial soon takes a bizarre turn. Lindsay and Rich also scramble to track down a serial arsonist responsible for murdering a string of wealthy couples. Lindsay races to put the pieces together before the fires hit too close to home. In true Patterson style, the reader is privy to Lindsay's thoughts as well as the killers', ratcheting up the suspense an extra notch. Fans won't be disappointed with the twist at the end that not even Lindsay sees coming.

Just when you thought we weren't going to have any fun on a Saturday night, I hit you with another short book review. Huzzah!

Title: The 6th Target
Author: James Patterson
Pages: Kindle
My Rating: 3.5 out of 5
My Review: 6th book in series. I liked this one, although it didn't keep me turning pages (AKA hitting the Next Page button on my Kindle) like the others in the series have.

Amazon.com Review:
When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their nannies-- but the kidnappers aren't demanding ransom. Amid uncertainty and rising panic, Lindsay juggles the possibility of a new love with an unsolvable investigation, and the knowledge that one member of the club could be on the brink of death. And just when everything appears momentarily under control, the case takes a terrifying turn, putting an entire city in lethal danger. Lindsay must make a choice she never dreamed she'd face--with no certainty that either outcome has more than a prayer of success.

I recently finished the 10th book in The Women's Murder Club series by James Patterson. I then came to the realization that I haven't posted a book review in a long, long time. Unfortuantely my review for The 5th Horseman was originally delayed when I added it to my spreadsheet. What this means for you is I will be posting multiple book reviews tonight. And my wife thought I wasn't going to have a blast on this Saturday night while she was out!

Title:The 5th Horseman
Author: James Patterson
Pages: Kindle
My Rating: 3.75 out of 5
My Comments: 5th book in series, another solid book. Good mystery involving the hospital killer. Note: I told you my review wasn't the greatest for this book.

Amazon.com Review (Originally Printed in the San Francisco Chronicle - Author's name not given):
It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths--and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, the Women's Murder Club hunts for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff. The newest addition to the topselling new mystery series takes the Women's Murder Club to the most terrifying heights of suspense they have yet to encounter. THE 5TH HORSEMAN proves once again that James Patterson is "the page-turningest author in the game right now "

Confused by the way that I have been reviewing books? Click here to read the format for my book reviews. In the mean time our newest review is below...

Title: 4th of July
Author: James Patterson
Pages: Kindle
My Rating: 3.75 out of 5
My Comments: 4th book in series. It was very good. The trial part of the book reminded me a lot of a classic John Grisham book. Wasn't in love with the ending which is what kept it from getting a "4".

Amazon.com Review (Written by: Kristine Huntley):
After the explosive events of the third entry in the Women's Murder Club series, 3rd Degree (2004), which claimed the life of one of the members, it's understandable that the follow-up might be a bit of a letdown. But only a little. Patterson's characteristic brutal murders and elusive killers are present, keeping the stakes high. Lindsay Boxer, the police lieutenant who brought the club together, is taking some serious heat in this installment. After a car chase goes wrong, Lindsay is forced to shoot two killers after they wound her and her partner. The firefight leaves a 15-year-old girl dead and her 13-year-old brother paralyzed, making way for a police brutality lawsuit. Lindsay hides out in her sister's suburban house, where she hopes to escape the media circus surrounding her trial. But someone has been killing married couples in the upscale community, and the method greatly resembles a case from early in Lindsay's career, one that she was never able to close the book on. Even though the Women's Murder Club itself is consigned to the background, Lindsay's trial and the murders keep the pages turning.

The last time I posted a Book Review Charlie Sheen was sane. BA DAM CHA! I'll be here all week. In the mean time take a peek at my latest book review.

Title: 3rd Degree
Author: James Patterson
Pages: Kindle
My Rating: 4 out of 5
My Comments: 3rd book in the Women's Murder club series. I really enjoyed reading this one. Not quite as good as the first, but I thought it was a little better than the 2nd. (NOTE: As you can tell, when I was putting the notes in my spreadsheet I wasn't really anticipating sharing them with the interwebs.)

Amazon.com Review (From Publisher's Weekly)
From the start, Patterson's Women's Murder Club series (1st to Die; Second Chance) has felt like high-concept TV with a smart edge, featuring an appealing and reliable cast of four female crime busters (a cop, a prosecutor, a medical examiner, a reporter) who race along byzantine plot lines humming with blood and sex, romance and heartbreak. But Patterson is an author who will detonate readers' presumptions for the sake of story, and in the series' third installment, the prolific author, working with frequent collaborator Gross (The Jester, etc.), defies expectations in a shocking way. Readers will love him for it.

San Francisco Homicide lieutenant Lindsay Boxer, who narrates most of the action, is jogging with assistant DA Jill Barnhardt when Lindsay notices two things: first, bruises on Jill's shoulder; then the explosion of a nearby townhouse, into which Lindsay rushes to save a child. With the juxtaposition of these two plotlines, Patterson jumpstarts this enjoyably convoluted tale. The townhouse, home to a greedy CEO and his family, was destroyed by members of a terrorist group calling itself "August Spies"; Lindsay's chase after the group, which commits further killings, brings her into close proximity to what promises to be a new series regular, Joe Molinari, deputy director of the Office of Homeland Security. Love blooms for Lindsay but, meanwhile, love has curdled at Jill's house, where Jill's husband is abusing her. Then comes the big surprise, and the story's remainder plays out at high emotion and warp speed. There's a calculated feel to all that happens, but clever manipulation of an audience serves Patterson as well as it served Hitchcock: his fans will only clamor for more.

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.

Since there were no movies worth checking out this weekend, I have decided to post my first book review. If you are wondering how and why I came up with the reviews then check out this post that will explain everything. Without further ado...

Title: 1st To Die
Author: James Patterson
Pages: Kindle
My Rating: 5 out of 5
My Comments: A tremendous book. I was reading it at every spare moment that I could. This was the first book that I read on my Kindle and that may have played a part in it, but it was really a good read.

Amazon.com Review (Written by: Jane Adams):
The Women's Murder Club pits four San Francisco women professionals against a serial killer who's stalking and murdering newlyweds in bestselling author James Patterson's newest thriller. Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector who's just gotten some very bad news. She deals with it by immersing herself in her newest case and soliciting the personal as well as professional support of her closest friend, who happens to be the city's medical examiner. The two women, along with an ambitious and sympathetic reporter and an assistant DA, form an unlikely alliance, pooling their information and bypassing the chain of command in an engaging, suspenseful story whose gruesome setup is vintage Patterson.

"What is the worst thing anyone has ever done?" the killer muses to himself early in the narrative. "Am I capable of doing it? Do I have what it takes?" Answering his own question, he embarks on a murderous spree that takes him from the bridal suite in a Nob Hill hotel to a honeymoon destination in the Napa Valley and thence to a wedding reception at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. Dispatching his victims on the happiest day of their lives, he purposefully leaves enough clues for his distaff trackers to discover his identity and put him behind bars. But just when the women think they've got the case all wrapped up, the killer turns the tables on them in a bloody denouement that even the most discerning reader won't see coming.

Patterson, author of the popular Alex Cross mysteries, promises future adventures for the Women's Murder Club, which may give him an opportunity to develop his heroines' characters more completely and win new fans among those who prefer their detectives in high heels and lipstick.

Before my Grandmother passed away a few years ago, I learned that she wrote down the title and author of every book that she read (and there were thousands), and kept them on a notecards in a recipe box. She did this so she would know if she had previously read the book, and if so what she thought about it.

I thought this was an awesome idea so a couple of years ago I started tracking every book I read on an Excel Spreadsheet. I track the title, author, page count (or if I read it on my Kindle I mark that down), my ranking (out of 5), and comments on the book.

It is a little bit more difficult to go to deep in to what I thought of each book so what I am going to do is post all of the above information along with the summary of the book from Amazon. I am going to go back to the start of my list and proceed from there. If you have read the book please feel free to post comments on what you thought.

I'm always looking for new books to read. If you have a suggestion feel free to leave a comment or E-Mail me.