I did not really c are to read to the end because the story never felt scary or creepy or like much of anything. Jack feels his brother could never have drowned because he was a strong swimmer and knew the Atlantic since childhood. It's not much of a surprise, but the elaborate and believable setup that Patterson stages is suspenseful enough to keep the reader flipping every page until they finally get to the inevitable conclusion. The second that Columbia law student Jack Mullen steps down from the train at East Hampton, he knows that something is very wrong. Jack’s warned off the case by Chief Detective Frank Volpi, and his girlfriend, the Neubauers’ daughter Dana, bails on him—though luckily, Nelson, Goodwin and Mickel’s top investigator, Pauline Grabowski, who’s just as smart and beautiful, is poised to take her place.

Towards the end, we find that the character that we follow in these third-person parts is actually a pretty minor character, adding a bit of frustration to those of us who want to read more of James' thoughts (or was I the only one in love with his personality? If the characters were in the centre of story, I would probably throw this book in the trash, since they weren’t very well developed. Since winning the Edgar™ Award for Best First Novel with The Thomas Berryman Number, his books have sold in excess of 300 million copies worldwide and he has been the most borrowed author in UK libraries for the past eight years in a row.

Nevertheless, they find him guilty and he's sentenced to life imprisonment; but nine years later he's on parole and out for vengeance. To my knowledge, Patterson has never written Mitchner-length chapters, but he at least used them to build suspense.

It's Thursday night, Memorial Day weekend, fifteen minutes from the start of the first party in what promises to be another glorious season in the Hamptons. The rich man has a shady past and some evil strong-arm associates who can intimidate witnesses, or even make them disappear. They feel genuine and realistic, and you almost instantly fear like the similar kind of injustice can happen to you. I've only read one other book by him, but The Beach House impressed me so much that it gets an ultimate recommendation.And as we work our way into James' revenge, the plot escalates so well that it's a relief when we finally learn how James will uncover what he knows is true.

Jack’s mission is to right his brother’s name and legacy, get behind the police coverups, and to breakdown the barriers that millionaires and celebs seem to have in this town. Jack brings int he help of his grandfather, a private eye with who he starts to build a relationship, and a small group of locals to try and prove that Peter was in fact murdered and that there is a major cover-up with a surprising and disturbing sexual twist. I know it left me cheering along as Jack stuck it to those who had caused him and his family (among others) so much harm. It's not that Patterson's thriller breaks a lot of ground in the suspense/thriller literary genre, in fact opting for a simple storyline touching on themes of money as power and the ease the rich have in covering up their dirty deeds. Jack knows his brother and knows this couldn’t be an accident; someone must have wanted his brother dead.In the words of that old Irishman Benjamin Franklin, 'We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we will hang separately.