“In an awful lot of novels, there’s more in them than there should be.” The trick? “I’ve taken the fat out of commercial novels,” he says. “In this day and age, when so many people have decided to spend so much of their lives not reading books, I think to create a new habit for them is a smart thing,” says Patterson, 69, perched in the summer study of his Hudson Valley home, the room dominated by a sleigh bed where he reads and edits. He is an industry unto himself.Īnd now the author of popular thrillers - and children’s books and young adult novels and romances and mysteries - has launched BookShots, a series of short, cheap, plot-propelled novels directed at an audience more prone to reading smartphones than print. But his popularity among readers remains incontrovertible. His author bio: “James Patterson has written more bestsellers and created more enduring fictional characters than any other novelist today.” Beloved by critics and peers? Not so much. In book publishing, there is James Patterson - and basically everyone else. (Chris Sorensen For The Washington Post) (Chris Sorensen for The Washington Post) (Chris Sorensen/for The Washington Post)īRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. 'A bright new star of crime fiction – Candice Fox's writing is inventive, thrilling and totally addictive.Bestselling author James Patterson at his home in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Revenge is coming, and her name is Harriet Blue … So she follows him down the Australian south coast with only one thing on her mind. Harriet needs to find this killing machine fast, even if the cost is her own life. And she’ll be the one to pull the trigger.īut Regan – the vicious serial killer responsible for destroying her brother’s life – has gone to ground. Harriet Blue – a detective with nothing more to lose – must decide whether or not to cross the ultimate line in the third explosive thriller in James Patterson's bestselling Australian series.ĭetective Harriet Blue is clear about two things. But as she is chasing him, the cops are chasing her. Detective Harriet Blue goes rogue in order to exact revenge on her brother's killer, in a heart-stopping cat-and-mouse race down Australia's south coast.
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