The 20th Victim (A Women's Murder Club Thriller)

Wow!!!! Fantastic story !!! Just keep getting better & better!!!! A must to take up these stories and start reading !!!! Its time well spent !!!!

Happy with what i got

Here’s the thing. I adore James Patterson. He used to be one of my absolute favorite authors and basically anything he wrote immediately became my new must have. That said, in recent years the books have been hit and miss for me. There have still been some real winners- I am fully behind where the Alex cross books and Michael Bennett books are going…. but there have also been some that I have been on the fence about. I couldn’t fully fall in love with the Harriet Blue series and the Private series are touch and go for me. While I liked this one, it wasn’t the best book in the series by a long shot- there was a lot going on and everything just seemed a bit… messy.Let’s start with the main storyline. Modern day vigilantes are taking vengeance on drug dealers and the like. They claim to be the new war on drugs, doing what police can’t or won’t. Lindsay and Rich are trying to figure this out, and get help from other areas where similar killings have happened- meeting with varying levels of success. At the same time our favorite reporter is trying desperately to get the scoop- and a little pissed at her lover and bestie for keeping her out- yeah, we’ve had this issue in these books numerous times and it’s getting old. You would think by now Cindy would respect the fact that they can’t talk to her about some things- or that they may need her to wait on info in order to catch a killer. And yet… she sulks. Add to that there’s a new, very annoying reporter that’s placed on the story with her. Is he just a jerk… or is he trying to sabotage her?Side story #1: Joe is called to an old friend’s side when his father dies of what looks like natural causes. Ray just isn’t convinced, in fact, he believes that the doctor killed his father- and maybe several other patients. Is it the grief talking? Has Ray lost it? Or could he actually be on to something? This one was messy for me. It’s obvious that Ray needs help- therapy at least, whether he is on to something or not. I don’t like that most of the time Joe seemed to be basically humoring his friend. The story dragged a lot, with little pockets of mayhem to spice things up.Side story #2: Claire is sick! I won’t go into too much because…. spoilers…. but Lindsay’s BFF is fighting for her life and I don’t feel like we got enough information here. I would have loved to see this from either her POV or her husband’s. As it was, something that could have given the characters and the WMC universe more depth simply seemed to detract from everything else going on.Side story #3: Yuki is having to prosecute a young man with charges that she doesn’t think he deserves. The boy was a driver for a drug dealer- in a stolen car. Did he know the car was stolen? Who knows?! Did he know about the drugs? He won’t say. He also won’t say anything about the passenger- who shot a cop and got away leaving this boy to take the fall for everything. But if he won’t talk, even to save himself, how can anyone help him? Out of all the side stories this one was probably my favorite. I love Yuki, and I respected the heartache she went through over this case. It made me see her in a different light and I feel like there was some character growth here.All in all this was a four star book for me. It was really good- but not the best in the series. Still, it was an interesting fast read.Rating: 4 out of 5.On the Adult Content Scale, there was a large amount of violence, some language and substance abuse and mild sexual content. I would give it a five.

Great book! Love the Women’s Murder Club series! Couldn’t put it down! If you haven’t read the series now is the time!

One of my favorite series! Great read and interesting story line.

Book was in condition as described

I absolutely Love The women’s Murder Club books. I’m fixing to start the next one as soon as Amazon downloads it to my Kindle.

This book was only fair I thought. Most of Patterson’s books are page turners but this book was not as catchy.

I read this book with a little less enthusiasm than I normally do,in my opinion not the usual high standard of James.And I say this tongue in cheek as he is another of my favourite authors.

The suspense in the story kept me hooked till the end

Excellent author. Excellent book. Gripping storyline.

Love his books

Predictable. Rushed. Flat. Not a page turner as a consequence. First one I really didn’t like. Disappointed. Hope the next turns out better, or this is it for me