Finished Th 6/23/11
For an author who claims on his website that he, "has sold more books than any other author (according to Bookscan), and in total, James's books have sold an estimated 220 million copies worldwide", THE POSTCARD KILLERS should be seen as an embarrassment. I don't know how many copies of this novel were sold, but if you paid for this novel, you got taken! (And, if you borrowed it from a library, like I did, you have wasted several hours of your life).
Here's the plot-line:
Young couples are being murdered in Europe, and the killings seem to be staged since the victims appear to be posed to mimic famous works of art. Art students from UCLA, Sylvia and Malcolm Rudolph, are identical twins who are vacationing in Europe, and thought to be the killers. Jacob Kanon, a police detective from New York, teams up with a Swedish journalist, Dessie Larsson to attempt to crack the case. Jacob's daughter was murdered by the killers, and Dessie received a cryptic postcard sent by the killers, so they make a classic 'crime fighting duo'. The ending is so corny that it might have been lifted from a writing class for sixth graders.
James Patterson wrote the delightful Alex Cross series, but his work has gone straight downhill. I would not recommend this novel to anyone.
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