Product Description

The fifth gripping novel in the Women's Murder Club series. Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friend Yuki Castellano are out shopping with Yuki’s mother Keiko when Keiko drops in the middle of the busy street. She’s had a stroke and Yuki starts to panic. She is rushed to the San Francisco Medical Center and admitted to the ICU.

Over drinks that evening at Susie’s, with her friends in the Women’s Murder Club, Lindsay learns of a huge malpractice suit against the San Francisco Medical Center. In the last few years, dozens of patients who were admitted to the emergency room seemed to recover and then died suspicious deaths. Is Yuki’s mother safe? In a place where the lives of patients are quite literally in others hands, will Lindsay and her friends be able to establish who they can trust?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5413 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-08
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Synopsis
The fifth gripping novel in the Women's Murder Club series. Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friend Yuki Castellano are out shopping with Yuki's mother Keiko when Keiko drops in the middle of the busy street. She's had a stroke and Yuki starts to panic. She is rushed to the San Francisco Medical Center and admitted to the ICU. Over drinks that evening at Susie's, with her friends in the Women's Murder Club, Lindsay learns of a huge malpractice suit against the San Francisco Medical Center. In the last few years, dozens of patients who were admitted to the emergency room seemed to recover and then died suspicious deaths. Is Yuki's mother safe? In a place where the lives of patients are quite literally in others hands, will Lindsay and her friends be able to establish who they can trust?

About the Author
James Patterson has written numerous international number one bestsellers. He lives in Florida and New York.

Customer Reviews

Really enjoyed it!
I really enjoyed this book. I get quiet emotional, and shed a tear during this novel! I read it in a day, it was just a page turner for me! Another great book!

Typical James Patterson
There is something about James Patterson that infuriates me in recent years and this book is the perfect example. Whilst I don't agree with the current fashion which is to bash the author and utterly pan his books. I do agree that his earlier work (Cross early not his very first books) was superior. Having said that whenever I am reading or have read his books I do want to be critical: the happy characters seem to be sickly happy where everything is like having an picnic in a meadow in the glorious sun; The killers all seem to be generic - I wish JP would not reveal the inner dialogue of the killer in some of his books; the writing seems to be getting more and more basic and the books shorter but more expensive. Nevertheless the simple fact of the matter is that the stories are gripping and you want to finish them. The short, punchy chapters work. For that reason alone I can not give him one star ratings ever.

The 5th Horseman typifies all of the above but their is no denying that it is an intriguing and enjoyable story. The ending however seems a bit odd. Not sure what was achieved by inserting a twist and resolving it in a matter of lines other than to leave the reader feeling cheated.

the 5th horseman
very poor quality, his first books were great, now they are just rubbish.
I will not be buying anymore written by him and his co writers..