Tom Dunleavy has a one-man law firm in East Hampton, summer home to billionaires and Hollywood celebrities. But his clients are the people he grew up with, the people who make a living serving the rich. When an old friend, Dante Halleyville, is arrested for a triple murder near a movie star's mansion, Tom agrees to represent him, and recruits super lawyer, and ex-girlfriend, Kate Costello to help fight the case. As Tom wonders if he can ever get Kate to forgive him for his past sins, the case takes on astonishing dimensions, revealing a world of illegal pleasures, revenge, and fear amongst the super-rich. Written with the whiplash precision that has made James Patterson the world's No. 1 suspense writer, Beach Road is his wildest and most thrillingly unpredictable novel ever.

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A wishlist RABCK.
Hope you enjoy them! :)

Thanks so much Mallary, you made my second day in a row!

Wow - I had a hard time getting into this book. All the different "I" characters were a bit confusing for me and until some of the final chapters I felt I was reading nothing special. Until that very twist in the end which made me reread the chapter again and again, just to make sure I understood ok (because English isn't my mother tongue) and it left me speechless. It will now go into my pc until my bf (a huge Patterson fan, too) has read it and then it will be set free again.

Arrived in Iceland with a Dutch friend on holiday here. :-)

mailing it off to a friend in Germany now :-)

Received this book at the end of July (or maybe it was the beginning of August, can't quite remember). It was just before my holiday, anyway, which is why I didn't yet have time to register it. Here it is now, anyway - sitting on my shelf and waiting to be read. Thanks Birnsen!

And here it is; I guess this is the part of your huge parcel of books for the Tea & Mystery, right?
Always enjoyed James Patterson's novels... let's try this one now.
Thank you, Chremajora, you have been brilliant! :)

Sent to the winner of the Book and Bookmark Sweeps... with some bookmarks!
Enjoy! :)

Beach Road arrived in Delphi along with a BookCrossing bookmark and a bookmark featuring information about BookCrossing on one side and a quote from Pride And Prejudice on the other! And along one of the -always fun to get- printed notes from Bookworm-lady! Thank you very much!

Thank you too Mallary, antonettes, birnsen and Chremajora for sharing this book. BookCrossers are generous people! Let's see what I'll make out of James Patterson who seems to be a popular author...

I admit that I might be a bit unfair here with my rating because this isn't my kind of read.

But even as a stereotypical, American thriller, it disappointed me more than others I have checked out every now and then in the past. I realised that I've read another book by James Patterson, one starring Alex Cross and I thought it was ridiculous and mediocre, so I reluctantly started the Beach Road having low expectations. Actually at the start I found it more OK-ish than expected, but then it turned dull and full of cliche plot elements and superficial characters.

I kind of liked the fact that most of the time it was persecution and court drama rather than car chases and super-duper weapons and murder after murder and I thought that the writting style was an improvement from the Alex Cross book I remember, so I guess Peter De Jonge's skills are somehow more to my liking. (By the way De Jonge's name appears on very light fond on the book cover, that's why I didn't noticed him or mentioned him on my previous journal entry. Patterson is the star author here, huh?) I thought that parallel to the thread of getting the innocent man out of trouble, we will get some revelations about the real culprit though. When I saw that the court drama was coming to a closure without any nods to that direction, I started guessing that *slight SPOILERS here* the real guilty part or parts would be one of the good guys, most likely Tom . So the big plot twist at the end didn't impress me much and more importantly I found it completely cheesy, unbelievable and ridiculous. There was very weak reasoning for the premise and no previous nods or hints for the story to take that direction. The final conclusion destroyed even the very little regard I had for this book up to this point...

Furthermore, I'm really furious for the way always women are pictured on these books. They all have to be sluts or motherly figures or dependant emotionally, financially, psychologically or any other way to a male character. Independent career women appear to be sad persons without friends, without interests or a life and even when their current career or life style doesn't suit them, suddenly they see the light that all that matters is to find a man and become a mother. How annoying is that? Even more so, of course they have to keep thinking of their first teenage sweetheart and not have a relationship or *what a shock!* sex with anyone in the meantime!!! Please, give me a break!

The only positive thing about this novel is that the chapters are tiny, it's short and non-demanding, so it doesn't require any use of one's brains to read it. But there are many other options out there if one wants to read a brainless, light book, so why to chose this one?

The Beach Road is on a trip by the beach now!

Released in an exchange book case on Glyfada, a southern suburb of Athens, part of the Athens "riviera".

Good Luck little book and Don't forget to write your news from time to time!