A review by madisenmc
The 13-Minute Murder by James Patterson

3.0

Picked up at the airport in LA randomly. I feel like I’ve seen SO many books by James Patterson and if never read any so I thought I might as well pick on up. Turns out this is actually a collection of 3 short stories each with a different co author so I’ll review each separately.

Dead Man Running - 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I really loved his short story because it felt like a short story. The characters were fun to read about but the narrative didn’t try to get too deep. I thought the plot was well paced, trope-y in a good way, and just fun. I would love to read more from Beck and Susan although I didn’t love the ending this story was very solid.

113 Minutes - 1 star ⭐️
I really didn’t like this. It started with the main cast already having the “perfect plan” with no insight into how that happened. Also the “plot twists” were so dumb. But the main thing was that I feel like the death of the son and revenge in the “killer” was so not logical.

Spoiler

I don’t think that just because someone made and sold drugs to your son that killed him means that the dealer is a killer. I think it’s a really out of touch mindset and didn’t work for me as the driving source of revenge.

The 13 Minute Murder - 3 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Just fine, felt like watching a movie.