The 5th Horseman by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (2006, Hardcover)

This is the much anticipated 5th book in the Womans Murder Club Series! Although I want to say that this is another "Quick Patterson Read", like I always do, I want to add that it is just that, and them some. Like his previous novel, The 4th of July, Patterson adds the intensity of a courtroom drama as well as adding the mystery of a medical thriller. I'd say he did it well, and I can see a movie somewhere on the horizon. The idea of bringing a serial killer inside of a hospital is a good one, and how the lawsuits and courtroom drama connect to it. The ending is definitely the twist.

The neat thing about this book as well as the others is that it is possible for new readers to pick them up and not be totally lost. Of coarse there are story lines between the books, but Patterson does well to "re-introduce" the characters without starting from scratch.

Like many of his other books, there is little left to the imagination. There really isn't much thought to it. They are "made for TV" books. If the book was a meal, the 5th Horseman would simply be the desert.