French Twist

You'd think with only 100 pages there would be a limit to the number the plots and locations the James Patterson writing Factory would attempt to shove into a story. Apparently not. Granted, this one stuck mostly to 2 plots - one involving the murders of socialites and the other with horse racing and the shady side of gambling - so not as bad as it could have been. But in all of that we traveled to Kentucky, Baltimore, New York and Paris. Moncrief is certainly racking up those frequent flier miles.

James DiLallo did a pretty good job of keeping the plots separate (the only connection was Moncrief) while staying on pace with both. I wasn't particularly thrilled with how either plot ended but you can't expect big explanations with only a small amount of paper real estate. I do wish they'd tone down Moncrief and his over the top knows all personality. Does he ever actually investigate anything? Not that it matters at this point, as I believe this book to be the end of the series/trilogy.