The murder house
Ratings7
Average rating3.9
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Ratings7
Average rating3.9
No. 7 Ocean Drive is a gorgeous, multimillion-dollar beachfront estate in the Hamptons, where money and privilege know no bounds. But its beautiful gothic exterior hides a horrific past: it was the scene of a series of depraved killings that have never been solved. Neglected, empty, and rumored to be cursed, it's known as the Murder House, and locals keep their distance. Detective Jenna Murphy used to consider herself a local, but she hasn't been back since she was a girl. Trying to escape her troubled past and rehabilitate a career on the rocks, the former New York City cop hardly expects her lush and wealthy surroundings to be a hotbed of grisly depravity. But when a Hollywood power broker and his mistress are found dead in the abandoned Murder House, the gruesome crime scene rivals anything Jenna experienced in Manhattan. And what at first seems like an open and shut case turns out to have as many shocking secrets as the Murder House itself, as Jenna quickly realizes that the mansion's history is much darker than even the town's most salacious gossips could have imagined. As more bodies surface, and the secret that Jenna has tried desperately to escape closes in on her, she must risk her own life to expose the truth -- before the Murder House claims another victim.
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Predictable and poorly written. I would not read another book from this author.
This was my first James Patterson novel. The audiobook showed up on my audiobook app and I thought “why not? This sounds interesting enough”
So how was it? Not bad. It was very fast paced with tons of twists and turns. Definitely fits that “guilty pleasure” line. Not exactly a “classic” or “groundbreaking” but a solid read for an afternoon when you want to play detective.
I did find out the killer semi early. That made a bit of the story drag. Still, it was entertaining. I may pick up another James Patterson novel in the future.
Honestly 4.5 stars rounded up just because this was so entertaining and had the perfect amount of plot twists.
I could NOT stop reading this. There are a LOT of POV switches especially in the beginning which i found hard to follow, the book was a bit darker than I expected (which wasn't necessarily a a bad thing), but Jenna's constant back and forth on her conclusions annoyed me a lot by the end.
Still very good and very entertaining read.
I fell for every single red herring, but by the end I figured out what was going on just before Jenna did. I liked the amount of the detective's life we get and the amount of investigating as well. At the end, there is even discussions between people that suspected each other. That was a great touch at the end.
