Robin, a woman we play pickleball with here in Bismarck, mentioned she was reading this series and that she really enjoyed it. She's a fun person, intelligent, and so I thought I would take a chance that maybe our tastes would be similar. I have read James Patterson before and found him ho-hum, but since this first novel in the "Women's Murder Club" series is set in the Bay Area, I though it might be really fun to read.
I have to say it was a real page turner! Patterson is great at short chapters that end in a way that makes you HAVE to begin the next one... Very enjoyable that way. However, the characters were disappointingly superficial, although likable. There was much to admire in the positive characters and nothing to admire in the perpetrator. Kind of predictable that way. And the settings, the streets and neighborhoods of San Francisco and some in the Napa Valley, were also superficial and were things that anyone just passing through casually would know about. Nothing special about the settings, either.
So...a good page turner with superficial characters, lots of plot twists and turns, and some gory murder scenes mean that this will be my first and last read in the series. Too bad. I really miss Kinsey Millhone in the Alphabet murder series by Sue Grafton. Maybe I should reread those?!
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