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The Beach House
by James Patterson, Peter De Jonge

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Author: James Patterson, Peter De Jonge
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-05-01
ISBN: 0446612545
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

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Book Review: A Great Book!
Summary: 5 Stars

I have just started to read the James Patterson books. I liked "1st to Die" and "2nd Chance" alot. I thought "The Jester" was really good as well. I thought "Cradle and All" was alright. But this book is by far my favorite one in his set of books. After writing over twenty books this book is great and engrossing. I finshed the last two hundred pages in one day. Mabye even more, I couldn't count. It wasn't a mystery with a dectective looking for a killer, or a serial killer. Only one murder and the family of the dead person, who are all regular people, go off to avenge his death. With Patterson's trademark two through five page chapters, this book is a swift read at 356 pages. I waited over a year to wait for this to come to paperback and in the end it was worth the wait.

The murder is towards Peter Mullen also known as "Peter Rabbit." He works at the Neubauer family's beach house in the Hamptons. He works there as a valet. When his brother Jack comes home from work over the weekend he finds his father, grandfather, and girlfriend waiting for him at the station. He then learns that his brother was dead. The cops say it was sucicide but Jack knows that he couldn't have killed himself. He was leading a happy life and he wouldn't have gone out for a swim and drowned. It was the end of May and it was too cold that night to swim. Jack tries to deal with the death of his brother, untill he comes home to find his father dead. All that is left is him and his grandfather Macklyn. They decide to avenge Peter's death, because they both know that he was murdered. But with everybody claiming that Peter killed himself, it turns out that whoever killed Peter bought the cops and the judges and whoever can open a case to Peter's murder. Also with all the trouble between Peter's family and Detective Frank Volpi, it's going to be a very hard quest.

"The Beach House" was a great book because it kept you engrossed enough to keep reading on. I find it hard to find books like that because in most books there is always a section where it's a little boring or uninteresting. In this book that only happened in the beginning where you are still trying to get into it. But you get into it very quickly, and when you do, you'll be very glad that you didn't give up on it.

The wording in this book is so simple. It's not hard to understand at all and it pretty much classifed as a page turner. The book does not include a high action packed scene at the end, but an ending where you'll be amazed at when they do indeed find out the killer of Peter Rabbit. The plan to unmask the killer is also unexpected and the scenes leading up to that are so entertaining where you need to keep reading to see what they are going to do. Pick up your paperback copy of "The Beach House" today.

ENJOY!

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