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21.Angels Flight (Harry Bosch) by: Michael Connelly January 01, 2000
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First what I didn't like: uses "nodded" too much, another "cop gone bad" story which is an overused ploy and one of Connelly's favorites. What I did like is that it was well done with good characterizations. Dialogue good, plot good although predicatble (we all knew it was a cop who did it from the very beginning). Old story but well done. Pretty good effort overall.

22.Glory in Death (In Death, Book 2) by: J.D. Robb September 07, 2004
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Glory wasn't a bad read, save for some of the "cop talk" that sounded like it was stolen from bad television shows. Roarke was decidedly less creepy in this volume, and that was actually quite nice. The mystery and the romance were okay, but not spectacular. This was a fluff read, and there's nothing wrong with a bit of brain candy sometimes.

23.Immortal in Death (In Death, Book 3) by: J.D. Robb July 01, 1996
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I thought the character development in this novel was wonderful, making Eve and company jump of the page moreso than ever before. It was the murder investigation side that lacked in this entry. Bringing Mavis in as a potential killer was just too silly, followed by the nearly interchangeable actor/producer characters, topped off by two catty feuding models. This was still a good fluff read, just not up with the previous two entries in the series.

24.Mary Mary/ Mary, Mary (Alex Cross) by: James Patterson July 30, 2007
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This was another 200 page short story spread over 392 pages with generous margins and a lot of white space with 121 chapters. But it was an easy read, much better than most of the previous books in the Alex Cross series except the first three which were four star. There was not a lot of actual detective work with Alex following up on clues. For example almost at the end the villain and a reporter show up in Vermont without the reader being made aware of how or why they choose to be there. When Alex finally discovered from a newspaper article who the villain might be and killed him, it was only then that the connections between the villain and all the previous victims were told to the reader. This was not a thriller with any suspense, just a mundane murder story with a flat ending.

25.London Bridges (Alex Cross) by: James Patterson October 01, 2005
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I read Kiss the Girls several years ago and was impressed with Patterson as an author. Several weeks ago my daughter loaned me five of Patterson's latest Alex Cross books. Before reading those books I went to the library and got the beginning eight books in the series skipping the Kiss the Girls book which was the number two book in the series. The first two that I read, Along Came a Spider and Jack and Jill were great books. Since then I have read books 4 through 10 and they have all been one star or two star at the most. His books are getting worst with each one that I read. London Bridges has a plot that is so contrived and unrealistic that it borders on comical. It's absurd that Wolf, the villain, had a mole in the FBI in the last novel, The Big Bad Wolf, that was never ... Read More

26.Reliquary by: Douglas J. Preston 1998-12
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Reliquary is the sequel to Relic which first introduced us to FBI special agent Pendergast. This story picks up where the original story ended, but we are now drawn outside the halls of the venerable museum in which the first story took place. Now, we are taken below ground - deep below ground. We are introduced to a dark world, peopled with strange characters living in alien blackness. Outcasts from the world above, these "mole" people have fled the daylight to escape the trappings of traditional society, as well as societal injustice and inequality. But there's something else dwelling in the darkness with them; creatures from the Devil's Attic that prowl the silent darkness, feeding on them. But the mole people aren't enough to satisfy their appetite. When the creatures venture beyond the boundaries ... Read More

27.Naked in Death by: J. D. Robb 2000-03
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The book started off ok but then the reader discovers that Eve, the main character, is plagued by a very violent crime involving a little girl. Without giving too much away, I just found myself as a reader having a hard time getting past this point. It seems to me that the crime involving this child was ultra violent and something that did not need to be fictionalized for a book. Nora Roberts is a creative person who could have come up with a myriad of crimes that could have been just as effective in terms of a catalyst for a novel and a main character.

28.Four Blind Mice (Alex Cross) by: James Patterson September 29, 2003
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A lot of loose ends abound, such as why the innocent victims were selected, how the master minds operated from solitary confinement in prison, and how all the evidence was fabricated Since I gave four stars to the first three books in the Alex Cross series, I wonder if Patterson really wrote this book. This plot was simplistic, unbelievable and too pat. I have complained about all the white space in each of the eight books by Patterson that I have read, so I will just say that C. H Mitchum (Chelmsford, MA USA) posted a review on January 27, 2003 that captures my sentiments exactly.

29.The Mercedes Coffin: A Decker and Lazarus Book (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels) by: Faye Kellerman August 12, 2008
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I've read most of Faye Kellerman's novels and have liked many of them, especially "Straight Into Night," but this one is--well--bad. I kept laying it aside and picking up again, forcing myself through the tedium. When I finally made it to the last page, the outcome was disappointing, vague. See for yourself. There could be no murder conviction based on the evidence presented. Keeping the characters straight was a problem. There are all sorts of low lifes without much to distinguish one from another. Then there is a great deal of extraneous material--what characters wore, every time they were presented. A disciplining editor should have cut a hundred pages or so of fat off this. The plot isn't all that good either, even if this were edited better. Kellerman tries to write a gritty police procedural, ... Read More

30.The Big Bad Wolf (Alex Cross) by: James Patterson October 01, 2004
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I think Patterson needs to take a vacation then return and write the way he did in Kiss the Girls which was the first Patterson book that I read. Cross as an FBI agent is in the loop, then out of the loop, etc. etc. without any explanation of why or who is doing it. You have to suspend your disbelieve as things just do not happen this way even with the worst of investigations. Wolf, the master villain, is unstoppable but never any explanation of how he does all the things during the story. He breaks every bone in a prisoner's body in the middle of a maximum security facility with no explanation of how it is done; just that the prisoner is found the next morning. Can you believe that Wolf drives by in a limo and takes a shot at the FBI and their prisoner and then the chapter ends and nothing is ever said about the ... Read More

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