Paperback 2009, 342 pages.
Sydney, Australia
I have a lot of spare time this week in Sydney, so I got to finish this book whiling away hours in and around Sydney.
This is another Women's Murder Club novel, the main story being a 30+ year old women (nicknamed "pet girl") committing murders with the help of kraits, a type of poisonous snake. Turns out this woman was the illegitimate child of a rich man who was also a serial killer. She actually killed her father by putting a snake in his bed. Lindsay Boxer broke the case kind of by happenstance: a visit with a teacher of pet girl and her victims.
The story was interesting but probably didn't provide enough material for our writers. So they saw fit to throw in a few bonuses: the prosecution of a woman who killed her father and maimed her mother, she was in turned murdered by fellow inmates in prison; the murder of a homeless man whom everyone thought was a great person but turned out to be a Stanford graduate who was a drug dealer and a pimp, many people admitted to the murder making it unlikely the real murderer would be found guilty; at least three romances involving Lindsay, Cindy, and Yuki (who fell in love with a doctor with ambiguous sexual identity). These additional stories provide the novel with a respectable length but end up being a waste of the reader's time. To be fair, this is how I regard most of Patterson's novels.
Simple read, interesting enough main story. An typical Patterson book, a below average book overall.
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