Author: James Patterson

Zoo

With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it's too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place left for humans to hide. With wildly inventive imagination and white-knuckle suspense that rivals Stephen King at his very best, James Patterson's […]

Middle School, the Worst Years of My Life

VOYA Like other "novels in cartoons" (e.g., Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Janet Tashjian's My Life in a Book), James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts offer a likeable, middle-grade underachiever, Rafe Khatchadorian. Rafe gets into so much trouble during sixth grade, a punishment of near solitary confinement leads him to recount the highlights […]

I, Michael Bennett

Library Journal Cops shot on the street and judges in their courtrooms: there's lots of violence in New York as a South American crime lord takes over. Det. Michael Bennett takes his ten kids upstate for a breather, but the violence follows; that nasty crime lord is targeting him and his family. Fifth in a […]

Middle School : Get Me Out of Here!

VOYA The second book featuring Rafe Khatchadorian (who we met in last year's Middle School: The Worst Years Of My Life [Little, Brown, 2011/Voya August 2011]) opens as Rafe explains and describes his family's move to "The City," where they will live with his Grandma Dotty. Mrs. Donatello, Rafe's sixth-grade English teacher, arranges an interview […]

11th Hour

Overview Your best friend Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker. […]

Guilty Wives

Overview No husbands allowed Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to […]

Private : #1 Suspect

Overview Unsolvable cases Since former Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world's most effective investigation firm–sought out by the famous and the powerful to discreetly handle their most intimate problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world–and they always uncover the truth. Impossible murders […]

Kill Alex Cross

It's Patterson at the top of his game…Kill Alex Cross [is told] with a realism that feels like an insider's view of a family tragedy played out on a national stage…Even in the context of a thriller, Patterson is presenting three different families—Cross's, the terrorists' and President Coyle's—each with its own darkly parallel definitions of […]