04/01/2015
King of the best sellers list, Patterson delivers (with Ellis, his coauthor on last year's Invisible) a stand-alone thriller about a classy Hamptons house with a terrible history of violence. Sixteen years ago, it burned down in a suspicious blaze with a couple caught inside, after which it was rebuilt; now a Hollywood mogul and his mistress are found dead there. Local Noah Walker had a connection to the recent victims and must figure out the house's dark secrets or he will be charged with their deaths.
A lot of thrillers live and die by their twists, those shocking revelations that change our scorecard of suspects and rearrange all the pieces on the board. Usually there’s just one twist, though some novelists supply a second uber-twist, or a subversion that kicks the twist into high gear.
Just like that, it’s September, and our summer lives are coming to an end: back to school, back to work, and back to the colder weather (or, depending on where you live, the colder colder weather). But even if your beach vacation is behind you, you still have plenty of time for an awesome thriller that will keep your […]