Perfect Shameful Page Turner for the Weekend: 4th of July by James Patterson

I finished Emily Giffin's "Love the One You're With" on the beach yesterday, and had to run back to our beach house for another book. And there on the bookshelf, staring right back at me, was the perfect Shameful Page Turner for the holiday weekend:



I'm almost finished, and I have to laugh at how much money James Patterson has made, churning out the Women's Murder Club books. Here are a few gems:

• The first paragraph of the book almost stopped me in my tracks: "It was just before 4:00 a.m. on a weekday. My mind was racing even before Jacobi nosed our car up in front of the Lorenzo, a grungy rent-by-the-hour "tourist hotel" on a block in San Francisco's Tenderloin District that's so forbidding even the sun won't cross the street."
• Chapter 12: "It was a day that had been ripped from the pages of a child's coloring book."
• Chapter 38: "The day unfurled like a yellow beach blanket."
• Epilogue: "The first week back on the job blew around me like a Category 5 hurricane."

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Spoiler: You are just not going to believe this, I could never have figured it out, but...

All three of the friends Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer of the Women's Murder Club makes on her "vacation" in Half Moon Bay?? They turn out to be MURDERERS!!

I guess you get what you pay for...I paid 50 cents for the paperback at the Artisan's Galleria in Bay Head, and they donate all of the proceeds from these "beach reads" to charity.