2 Sisters Murder Investigations opening lines: There’d been no doubt in my mind that Baby wasn’t going to last the whole stakeout.
My blurb:
Rhonda does not know if she can trust her ex-boyfriend, and police officer, Dave. Her attorney brain feels that she can however trust her client, Troy Hansen, who is the main person of interest in a missing person’s case. And while they are trying to prove he did not kill his wife, there is the matter of rescuing a dog. Baby is hell bent on her own mission, which is starting to get on Rhonda’s nerves.
2 Sisters Murder Investigations
Rhonda and Barbara “Baby” Bird are half-sisters—and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. They agree on nothing.Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach to solving crimes, while teenage Baby relies on her street smarts.But when they take a controversial case of a loner whose popular wife has gone missing, they’re accused of being PIs who can’t tell a client from a killer. The Bird sisters share a late father, but not much else…except their willingness to fight.Fight the system. Fight for the underdog. Fight for the truth. If they can stop fighting each other long enough to work together.
My verdict:
This is a well written novel by Candice Fox in collaboration with James Patterson. Baby is a character I am looking forward to seeing grow into the mature adult I know she can be.
About the Author:
James Patterson is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. Among his creations are some of the world’s most popular series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Michael Bennett, and the Private novels. He has written many other number one bestsellers, including collaborations with President Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton, stand-alone thrillers, and non-fiction. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed adult author in UK libraries for the past fourteen years in a row. He lives in Florida with his family.
Read an extract:
THERE’D BEEN NO DOUBT in my mind that Baby wasn’t going to last the whole stakeout. I just hadn’t thought she’d quit it by crawling out the passenger-side window and onto the roof of my car.
I’d sat calmly in the white 1958 Chevy Impala for two hours, watching the dark apartment windows through my binoculars, listening to the humid Los Angeles night’s sounds enveloping the parking lot. Crickets, distant sirens, Latin music. My sixteen-year-old sister, Baby, had twisted and turned in her seat, variously twirling her hair, napping, scrolling social media, drumming the dashboard, and trying to engage me in rounds of Kiss, Marry, Kill with celebrities I’d never heard of. Two stakeout highlights — one man leaving the apartment building briefly to smoke a cigarette, another driving off and returning with a bag of items from a nearby pet store — did little to disrupt Baby’s bored agony or my quiet focus.
Publishing information:
Penguin Random House South Africa sent me this novel to review.
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This sounds like an interesting one…I bet the whole book was written by Fox…but with Patterson as a co-author, the book would for sure sell more.
Currently I am reading Sue Grafton’s alphabet series. Pretty good too.
I have just given her series to a friend to read – they are really good!
You read a lot – that’s awesome; I normally tackle one book a month. I keep buying them though, so I probably have a supply enough for next two years or so haha.
I try and read a book a week! My TBR pile only has one book left which is a conundrum for me 🙂