The members of the Women's Murder Club face an unspeakable menace in the most suspenseful hospital drama since Coma. Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer is shopping with the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, lawyer Yuki Castellano, and Yuki's mother, Keiko, when suddenly Keiko collapses. She's rushed to San Francisco Medical Center where her condition stabilizes. Yet days later, the hospital calls Yuki with devastating news. Keiko was given the wrong medication and it brought on a fatal heart attack. Even more astonishing, this is not the first time SFMC has made this mistake. Just as patients are about to be released with a clean bill of health, their conditions take a mysterious turn for the worse. As the hospital comes under scrutiny, Lindsay and the Women's Murder Club investigate for themselves. Is there a maniac at work, playing God with peoples lives? And has Lindsay somehow made him -- or her -- even worse? The newest addition to the top-selling new mystery series takes the Women's Murder Club into the most terrifying situation they have yet to encounter.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
The 5th Horseman, November 17, 2008
By
Nancy (Bells, TX)
The 5th Horseman, like the other books in James Patterson's Women's Murder Club series, is an exciting and very well written novel. It keeps your interest constantly and is a hard one, once again, to put down. I recommend this entire series if you like a fast paced exciting read.
5th Horseman, November 5, 2008
By
Deborah A. Mick (Grafton, WV USA)
James Patterson keeps you guessing until the very end. I enjoy his books very much.
Poor writing, November 4, 2008
By
Louise (Copenhagen V, Denmark)
At some point, I am probably going to say that I have read all James Patterson's books. Even though I think that his writing and his stories get weaker and weaker and weaker. And every time I finish one I swear it will be the last.
But after a trip to the library where I did not find what I was after, I ended up loaning his The 5th Horseman. It is book no. 5 in his "Women's Murder Club" series. I have read no. 1 and 2. They were definitely not very good and neither is this one. Patterson has a co-author on almost all his books and that is the same for this one, but that does not make the quality any better.
There are two cases which our heroine, police-woman Lindsay Boxer has to crack in this book, with her "Women's Murder Club". This "team" has a forensic pathologist, a journalist and a lawyer.
First case is about one or more serial killers who displays their victims in luxury cars, dressed in designer gear.
The other case is about a hospital being sued for malpractice. Apparently healthy patients die like flies after being admitted to this hospital.
Both plots are very weak, to put it mildly and what really bugged me was that the two plots are not even connected. Middle into the book, one of the cases is solved and then we hear nothing more about it. That is so not good enough. It is YAWN! The book is divided into super-short chapters, which is not necessarily a bad thing, and when they are so badly written as is the case here, it is almost a relief.
The book is a real fast read and while reading I did wonder why on earth I bothered, seeing as there are so many good books out there waiting to be read. Apparently I cannot really stay away from badly written mysteries ;-)
5th horsemen review, November 1, 2008
By
Corina Tovar (tx)
the 5th horsemen is one of the best books ive read so far by james Patterson. the book was filled with suspense and i thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. the only problem i had with this book was the murders of caddie girl and jaguar girl. it didnt seem to fit in with the rest of the book. it felt out of place with the mystery murders in the hospital and the courtroom drama. i felt like it should have been a book in itself. the ending was unepected to me but i felt like lindsay would not let someone like that get away with murder. overall i give this book 5 stars and cant wait to read more books of james patterson.
so confused, October 7, 2008
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Angelique Auzebyyes, the book was great, very intense in part. But the last few chapters were so scattered I felt like i had to go back to see what I had somehow missed. And the whole car murders inbetween seemed lifeless. I never truly understood what that was all about. If someone figured out how the night watcher and the doctor were involved I would be happy to have them explain it to me. Otherwise it seems like night watcher followed him around killing people and then he took all the credit for the murders in a round about way to win the court case. weird.
