Private, Los Angeles

by James Patterson OL22258A [Work in progress. Please do not merge James Patterson.]

394 pages

French language

Published April 14, 2011 by Librairie Générale Française.

ISBN:: 978-2-253-16723-5
OCLC Number:: 921164135

(7 reviews)

Jack Morgan runs the detective agency that is the most elitist, Private, with offices worldwide. Politicians, businessmen and showbiz stars are among its clients. Profiling, ballistics, computer science, scientific analysis ...: nothing can resist its experts! In Los Angeles, Jack investigates a serial killer who is attacking high school girls - eleven so far, all killed in different ways - when he learns that the wife of his best friend was brutally murdered. Then comes piggyback another story, even more personal, forcing Jack to break an absolute rule: never deal with the devil ... Who said that the crime was THE movie?

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Caffeinated Book Dragon reviewed Private by James Patterson (Private, #1)

Not leaving a star-rating, stopped at pg 105, so it wouldn't be fair to.

No rating

I'm a touch disappointed because I've liked a lot of James Patterson's stuff before, but I knew I couldn't go any further because it was just not an interesting setup for a private investigation series for me. I know he doesn't do "realism", but the utter perfection in the setup, that this private investigation firm has better equipment and resources than even the cops in CSI and Law & Order just felt like it was pulling my leg too far.

I was also annoyed with how many cases and threads for plot were flying around in the start, and I just couldn't care much about what was going on--I was spending too much time trying to keep track of all these characters!

Anyhoo--not my cup of tea, but could be yours.