Besides being productive, James Patterson is among the breakthrough-going thrillists. Up to this day, he has produced not less than 30 novels most of which are his own thinking and typing and some of which are written in collaboration with other writers. For the women’s murder club, especially, he has worked with andrew gross and maxine paetro. hey, don’t forget those cool sequence-titling: 1st to die, 2nd chance, 3rd degree, and the newest one, which i’m gonna review in no time, 4th of july. well, those names are cliches, but James puts greatest efforts to come up with the thrilling contents.
4th of July tells about a female lieutenant, Lindsay Boxer, who has a new case now. there’ve been two murders in town. Both the victims are teenagers. they’re whipped at the bottom and slashed to death. she solves the problem with her friend, Jacobi. They find the black sedan suspected to be the murderer’s car. There’s a hollywood (scripted)scene with a police car and a bad guy’s car roaming the busy street of san fransisco before it ends with a crash. Later, we’ll find that the driver of this car got a fatal accident from boxer’s shot and sues back. a trial follows. Boxer gets a leave and live for some moment in her sister’s house in half moon bay where, again, she’s faced to a chain murder with similar signanture—whipping and slashing.
All in all, this book shows James’ mastery in thrilling people. The language is very fluid and the plot is far-from-boring: what else can excite people than a story with branched plot, there’re two cases, the chain murder and boxer’s fight at the trial. You’ll find your fingers stuck to the book, and your eyes get charmed by the chain of freshly colloquial dialogue that James, i believe, has bleed to devise.
