“THE 6TH TARGET”                                                                                              by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

Review #40

A Women’s Murder Club Murder Novel with Lt./Sgt. Lindsay Boxer

During the random and vicious murder of 4 people on a San Francisco ferry, Boxer’s best friend, Claire, is shot and seriously injured. Lt. Lindsay Boxer is determined to find the deranged gunman who committed this atrocious act. As if this isn’t enough to do, she must also, investigate a series of kidnappings in which children of wealthy parents and their nannies are being abducted without ransom demands.

On the day she arrests the ferry gunman, she is demoted! The police brass, aware that she prefers being a Sergeant working the city's mean streets to being a Lieutenant working a desk, decides to grant her request to return to her previous rank. When it actually happens, Lindsay has second thoughts, but not for long.

Her personal life is just as chaotic, as she breaks up with long time boyfriend, Joe, and is forced to make a tough choice about a potential romance with her partner, Rich Conklin.

There is a lot to like in this mystery: well-defined characters, a creepy villain, and crackling courtroom drama.

I, personally, have never read a bad James Patterson novel and this is no exception!