17th Suspect

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17th Suspect
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First edition
Author James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series Women's Murder Club (novel series)
Genre Crime novel
Publisher Little, Brown and Company
Publication date
April 30, 2018 [note 1]
Media typePrint (hardcover) [note 2]
Pages368 pp (first edition, hardcover)
ISBN 978-0316274043
Preceded by 16th Seduction (2017) 
Followed by 18th Abduction (2019) 

17th Suspect is the seventeenth novel in the Women's Murder Club novel series [note 3] by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. [1]

Contents

Plot

San Francisco Police Sergeant Lindsay Boxer is the main character of this book. It has two plots. The main plot involves a number of unsolved murders of homeless people. The second involves a charge of rape by a male employee against his female supervisor in an advertising agency.

In the main plot Lindsay and her partner, Rich Conklin, get involved in the homeless murders when a homeless woman comes to Lindsay to complain that the detectives who should be investigating the cases are doing basically nothing. The murders are occurring in a jurisdiction outside of Lindsay's area of responsibility. She makes waves and files a complaint against one of the detectives who is in charge of the investigations. Then a murder happens on Lindsay's turf. In the meantime the detective against whom Lindsay filed a complaint files one against Lindsay and both officers go before a review board. To make matters worse Lindsay begins feelings weak and fears an old illness that nearly killed her has come back.

The second plot involves another member of the Women's Murder Club, Yuki Castellano, an attorney with the district prosecutor's office. She is prosecuting the rape case. She is finding this case full of twists and turns and she is going head to head against a very accomplished defense attorney. Yuki worries not only about winning such a case, but her husband seems to be going through some sort of problems and Yuki would like to know exactly what they are.

Reviews

A review of this book in Book Reporter is positive. The review concludes, "While THE 17th SUSPECT is complete in itself, it does leave an element of the book dangling treacherously at the conclusion. Longtime readers of the series will recall that Patterson and Paetro are not averse to removing recurring characters from the mix with little warning, so whether they will “go there” is a consideration that is always on the table. We will have to wait until next year to find out, but the anticipation will be worth it." [2] Reviewer Courtney Bauman, for several reasons she mentioned in her review, was not that impressed with this book, saying, "17th Suspect came up a bit short." [3]

This book was the number one New York Times best seller for Combined Print & E-Book Fiction for two weeks in 2018. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Patterson, James; Paetro, Maxine (30 April 2018). The 17th Suspect. ISBN   978-0316274043.
  2. ↑ Joe Hartlaub. "The 17th Suspect". The Book Reporter. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ Courtney Bauman (September 1, 2018). "The 17th Suspect by James Patterson". Book Reviews by Courtney Bauman. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ "The New York Times Best Sellers". The New York Times. May 26, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2019.

Notes

  1. ↑ This is the release date for the hardcover edition. Other editions were released on other dates.
  2. ↑ Also released as Amazon Kindle edition, audiobook and as a paperback.
  3. ↑ Women's Murder Club: The Trial is sometimes called fifteen and half in this series, which would make 17th Suspect the seventeenth novel in the series in such a case.
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