11th Hour

These books are always good. I love reading about the various relationships that are evolving with each book. The crimes stories are always riveting making the books hard to put down. In this book detective Boxer is pregnant so that adds to the tension as she continues to go out in the field to investigate and track down dangerous criminals. She also has some trouble on the home front and her cartwheeling hormones are not helping.

I was really excited about Murder Club 11, I thought with Lindsay now being pregnant we'd get to see a softer side to our SFPD cop. Instead we got a book that seemed to go nowhere.

It was nice to see a return to the format of two cases focused around police work with no courtroom dramas. The two police cases though were a little weak in this book. A case of a rogue cop shooting drug dealers and one about two severed heads turning up in a movie stars garden. They promised excitement but in all honesty the cases were pretty suburban. The rogue cop case was pretty dull overall and the severed head story promised intrigue and glamour and instead it was just a little odd.

Throughout the book we rarely have Lindsay's pregnancy referred to, only when Patterson remembers is it brought back in for it then to be moved on from and we lose a story which could have been so good.

Overall a pretty weak instalment of the series.

Pregnancy has mellowed Lindsay out some because she wasn't nearly as annoying as she usually is. And since there was no case being tried I wasn't annoyed with Yuki either.

So all around, it was better than the last book.

The two cases that Lindsay and Rich are working on are just okay. There's someone killing drug dealers out there and you have a hard time really caring if that murderer gets caught or not. He's not delusional, he's not taking out innocent people. So there's that.

The other case is weird and everything is sort of out of left field and unexpected, but then I just felt kind of deflated. Like the killer's motives weren't interesting enough after all that drama.

But still, it was a quick, fun read. Great little escape!