An easy read. Quite entertaining.

My Mom and I both read this book.

I did appreciate the naiveté and optimism of the lead character — in the face of multiple personal disasters.

The plot provides enough twists and turns to keep it interesting.

The Switch: A Novel (2017)

Michael Tanner is on his way home from a business trip when he accidentally picks up the wrong MacBook in an airport security line. He doesn’t notice the mix-up until he arrives home in Boston, but by then it’s too late. Tanner’s curiosity gets the better of him when he discovers that the owner is a US senator and that the laptop contains top secret files.    
 
When Senator Susan Robbins realizes she’s come back with the wrong laptop, she calls her young chief of staff, Will Abbott, in a panic. …

Though I wasn’t impressed with his Nick Heller series of books, I’ll definitely be reading more Joseph Finder.

Not his best.

But still worth reading.

Extreme Prey (2016)

Marlys Purdy is a crazy woman who has endured the political system long enough. She blames the political system for the loss of the farm she had with her dead husband and the continued financial system that perpetuates the same cycle.

She is ready to take action and stop Michaela Bowden, a potential Democratic presidential candidate from going any further in the campaign in Iowa.

Marlys has a plan. Together with her derange son who has had some military service in Iraq, they put their plan into action. …

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Lucas Davenport gets the call to save the day.

As usual.

The newest James Patterson book (Jan. 2025) as I post is something of a departure from his standard template.

The style of writing is simplistic — which somehow suits the honest, sincere hero of the story ➙ Texas Ranger Rory Yates.

The Texas Murders, 3rd in the Texas Ranger series.

Texas Ranger Rory Yates protects his home state wearing a five-pointed silver badge and carrying a Sig Sauer.  

When a native woman disappears on the summer solstice, clues point to a cold case. 

Yates, a quick-draw champion, partners with expert archer Ava Cruz of the Tigua Tribal police.

The investigation leads to the edges of Texas’s most unforgiving landscape, where the officers take dead aim with every shot in their arsenals. 

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22 Seconds (2022) is one of the Women’s Murder Club (novel series).

A good one.

Detective Lindsay Boxer‘s daughter is age-4. That’s how I keep track of these newer books. 😀

Fictional California has enacted a NEW law restricting the most dangerous firearms. Needless to say, some of the Gundamentalists are revolting.

There’s buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home.
 
Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies:
 
You talk, you die.

The book Eyes of Prey had a terrific BAD GUY.

He’s an insane pathologist drug addict who studies the moment of death of his victims. He removes their eyes so they can’t look at him from the afterlife.

Silent Prey is a bit of a sequel.

… police reach out for the man who knew Bekker best, but when Lucas arrives, he finds unexpected danger as well.

For Lily Rothenburg, the policewoman whose intense affair with Lucas has never completely faded, is there too. Now, consumed with her own investigation of a group of rogue killers within the police department, she draws Lucas into her orbit again, until their hunts merge, their twin obsessions driving them ever closer to the edge . . . and then over.

For me, this book was not focused enough on one plot line.

AND it’s incomprehensible authorities couldn’t catch him sooner.

The 2013 book in the Lucas Davenport series is excellent.

Davenport tries to solve the murder(s) before a Senate election night.

Time is short.

He knows the killer(s). But can’t prove it.

Silken Prey is a novel about political corruption.  

… In this novel, we meet one of the most narcissistic of the bunch, democratic candidate for the Senate Taryn Grant, a wealthy, gorgeous, sexy, and driven woman who will do whatever is necessary to achieve her goal to fill the Senate seat for the State of Minnesota -even if that involves murder. …

A man named Tubbs disappears and is feared dead. He is suspected of having planted child pornography on the republican candidate’s computer, resulting in a highly-publicized scandal that threatens to ensure Taryn Grant the senate seat. ..

Book Review: ‘Silken Prey’