They feel genuine and realistic, and you almost instantly fear like the similar kind of injustice can happen to you. Effectively moving and comedic at the same time, Patterson's main character gives The Beach House a much more invigorating tale. After his brother is murdered by a rich and powerful family, main character James sets out to get revenge and uncover the truth after the family is able to convince the police that the death was a suicide.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. that was not the case with this book, it was simply badly written and felt like they were trying to piece together 4 different books and just built a mess of a book. The plot keeps your interest right from the beginning and from that moment the book is a true page burner.

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. When his brother Peter turns up dead with a strong suspicion of suicide, law student, Jack Mullen decides that it is time to figure out what really happened. 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?In the words of that old Irishman Benjamin Franklin, 'We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we will hang separately. You feel Jack’s helplessness, bitterness against the law system and you just can’t wait for him to teach the bad guys a lesson. As Jack tries to uncover details of his brothers last night, he confronts a barricade of lawyers, police, and paid protectors who separate the multibillionaire summer residents from local workers like Peter. I won't know if it's the author or just the book because I don't really feel like picking up another one of this guy's books.