Book Review: Unlucky 13 by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

 

Unlucky 13

by

James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

 

Unlucky 13 is the second book that I have read as part of my Women's Murder Club series catch up after finishing 12th of Never the other week. The Women's Murder Club series is my favourite by James Patterson but having had a break from reading them for a while I have decided to read the 3 latest books back to back. They are called 12th of Never, Unlucky 13 & 14th Deadly Sin.

 

The Women's Murder Club is about a group of friends that live in San Francisco, America. They are Detective Lindsay Boxer from the SFPD homicide department, Dr Clare Washburn Chief Medical Officer for San Francisco, Yuki Castellano a District Attorney for San Francisco and Cindy Thomas a crime reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and together they help catch some of the cities most violent criminals.

Two dead bodies are found on the Golden Gate Bridge, however this is no normal crime scene. Detective Lindsay Boxer and partner Detective Rich Conklin have never seen anything like this before. The scene is more what you might find in a war zone and not on one of the worlds most iconic land marks. Whilst trying to find who committed these crimes Lindsay gets a call about a former colleague who is on the run and on the FBI's most wanted list. Is this ex-colleague ready to return to San Francisco and cause more havoc? Meanwhile one member of the Women's Murder Club should be having the time of her life but when tragic strikes it could all end horribly wrong. 

Page 1... 2 dead bodies... and we're off.. No messing about again just straight into the action. Love it.. I was already hooked and not even turned a page yet. This I suppose if why James Patterson sells so many books. His ability to not let your mind wonder and decide whether you re going to like this book or not.

As previously stated on my 12th of Never review, I love the characters in this series of books. I feel as though I have grown with them over the years. The regular guys are always there and each evil character is written so unique and different from all the others.

My biggest wish for this book was for one of the stories from 12th of Never to continue. There was a huge twist at the end I did not see coming and it was never put to bed as to what happened to this character. I was not disappointed. A big part of this book is "What happened next" with this character and was brilliantly written. The story took on more twist and turns all the way to the end. This book like all the others never has just the one story running through it. In Unlucky 13 there are a group of serial killers leaving exploded bodies around parts of San Francisco, another serial killer on the run wanting revenge and leaving bodies as they go and then just to top it off a hijacking of a public area that puts a 1000 people at risk from a group of mercenaries.

Is there anything I did not like about this book? No.. not this time. I loved this book so much. I read it in under a week which is brilliant for me and I have to say, in my opinion this is the best Women's Murder Club novel for a long time. It had everything. I also think it had quite a dark side to it which always makes things more intriguing.

I scored this book a 5 out of 5. I liked it so much I could read again very soon. I also could see this book being turned into a film will all the action that was going on. If you are interested in reading these series of books then I recommend you start from the beginning and start reading 1st to Die. Keep an eye out for my review of 14th Deadly Sin.

I would love to know what other people think that read the Women's Murder Club books? do you agree with me or not?? what is your favourite James Patterson series/book? Let me know....

Speak soon.

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