The 24th Hour: Is This The End? (A Women’s Murder Club Thriller, 24)

The 24th Hour is the next installment in James Patterson and Maxine Paetro’s Women’s Murder Club Thriller Series. The book starts off with the women in the club at a fancy Bay Area restaurant. They hear a woman yell, “Nooooo!” from upstairs, and immediately, Officer Lindsay Boxer rushes to see what the commotion is all about. She finds a young woman who has just been raped along with her rapist, who says the woman wanted it. This is case number one in the series, and the reader follows Attorney Yuki Castellano into the courtroom. The second case occurs when a hospital is cyber-threatened by a group of hackers. The third case in the book is the murder of a wealthy man.

Although each of the cases was interesting, I felt the only storyline that had a good twist was the murder of the man. The other two cases were solved almost too easily, even though the build-up to them getting solved was exciting. The endings happened very quickly. Of course, I love all of the women in the club and look forward to many more books in the series.