Being an investigator in a serial murder case is stressful, but even harder when dealing with a life threatening disease. Lindsay Boxer befalls as the main investigator on a sequential murder case of newly wed couples on the night of their wedding. Working against time to find the killer before he or she finds their new victim and balancing out her love life with her partner on the case and her killer, Negli’s Disease, the story of Lindsay Boxer in the book 1st TO DIE by James Patterson is a thrilling but bone chilling to read.
In the books included in the series the “Women’s Murder Club” James Patterson writes about four women banning together to solve alarming crimes. The book 1st TO DIE is the starting book of the spine-tingling story. James Patterson was inspiring to be a professional basketball player when he read The Day of the Jackal and The Exorcist inspired him to be a writer. Some of James Patterson’s earlier work was being a slogan composer. The works of James Patterson strip down the scene to little details that make the book hard to put down. Short chapters make reading easier, while opening a door for the reader’s mind to place them inside the book. The “Women’s Murder Club” series are all thrilling murder mysteries that can’t be disregarded.
This novel describes the out of the ordinary life of the only detective in San Francisco, working in company with close friends to solve the most talked about murders. When Lindsay Boxer is called to a local murder, feeling uneasy but expecting it to be a regular crime scene, she makes her way to the Mandarin Suite of the Grand Hyatt hotel. When approaching the hotel nothing has prepared her for what she saw. Lying inside the door were the first victims of the cold-blooded killer, slaughtered. These heart-wrenching crimes occur all the way through the book, and detective Boxer is always one step behind the killer. While traveling across the country to another crime that is linked to her cases, her job is put in second to her love affair, Chris Raleigh. When one of the ladies of “The Women’s Murder Club” discovers facial hair at a crime scene and gets the DNA, the crime has come from an open case, to knowing the killers name. Lindsay Boxer though has a gut feeling that something isn’t right, and the story takes for the worst.
1st TO DIE is a roller coaster ride that the reader will never forget. James Patterson uses a popular writing device, telling the story from the main character’s point-of-view, helping the reader to be entranced in the book, while also having a picture being drawn in their minds. Effectively telling the story through the main character James Patterson puts a picture in the reader’s mind of the horrific crime scenes. “I’d been to a hundred homicides and could radar in on the body as quick as anyone, but this I wasn’t prepared for. It sent a wave of compassion racing down my spine,” (pg. 27) this quote from Lindsay proficiently suggests how badly these crime scenes are, and how sick the killer is.
Critiquing this book is very simple because this book is one that once you start reading you will never want to put it down. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a great mystery murder, which is mature enough to deal with descriptive pictures of gory scenes. Overall I enjoyed reading this book all the way up until the end and feel that most readers would feel the same.
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