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Private #1 Suspect by Maxine Paetro, James Patterson

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dogearedandfurry's review against another edition

3.0

This had potential with interesting crimes... but by having 3 strands, it diluted it too much. There wasn’t much of anything really on the dead ex girlfriend in Jack’s bed, the drug theft or the dead men in hotels. I feel a bit shortchanged.

daydreamer1983's review against another edition

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4.0

A good read. I really like this series. Can't wait for the next one :)

beth_books_123's review against another edition

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3.0

‘Private #1 suspect’: another great addition to the Private franchise.

Earlier additions to the Private franchise

I read the first Private book on holiday; my dad had bought it after some guy recommended it from work and he didn’t get the chance to read it. After finishing all of my books that I’d brought, sat on the veranda was Private by James Patterson. I love a good crime thriller and found this was right up my street. I don’t know if it was the summer breeze or the curse of the sequel but I don’t think the other books in the franchise could stand up against the first one.
SHAME, REALLY!

Plot

Okay, Jack Morgan is the #1 suspect after he finds Colleen Molloy murdered on his bed in his house with a witness that saw him do it. Jack can’t have done it because he had just got off the plane from some meeting and had a shower so it can’t be him. So who was it? If you’ve read the previous books then you know who it is. Anyway, Jack has to prove that it wasn’t him despite the LAPD’s persistence that it was him. On top of that, Jack’s team in L.A are “helping” the mafia, assisting a celeb and following a hotel serial killer.

Characters

Jack Morgan- he is the protagonist and for me to read a book, I have to fall in love with them. Well, I love Jack Morgan. He has boyish charms that Patterson portrays throughout the book- nice. Yes he has a sex drive of a… a man but come on that’s why we love him. He is set up to be loved and I can’t help it.

Del Rio, Cruz and Scotty- they aren’t developed enough through the book to have paragraphs separately but Del Rio is the main man because he is Jack’s best friend. Cruz is a Spanish senorita that his way with the ladies, well it is L.A; it wouldn’t be the Californian dream otherwise? Scotty is the new guy that I just have little to say about expect he is a ninja.

Justine- I loved her in the first one because of her development through the “school girl killings”, I really enjoyed the complexity of that case and missed that with Justine. I really thought the cases were not up to their usual scratch. I don’t know if I missed the POV from the murderer but I felt the killers were put to me on the plate. :(

canadian_booknerd's review against another edition

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4.0

Your typical James Patterson book - fast paced, page turning, can't put down, kind of read. I liked this one more than some of his but less than others. I was really intrigued with Jack's storyline. I mean, you knew he didn't kill Colleen and make it so obvious, but who did? Also, I love that there are all the little side cases so you don't get bored/stuck with just one going on.