Hide and Seek
It was the trial that electrified the world. Not only because of the defendant, Maggie Bradford, the woman whose songs captivated the world's heart. Not only because of the victim, Will Shepard, the world's most glamorous athlete. But also because everyone said Maggie had murdered not just one husband, but two. If Thomas Harris's psycho-thrillers are the creme de la creme of the genre, then Patterson's (Kiss the Girls; Along Came a Spider) are the skimmed milk - fluid, but low in substance. In his new novel, the author again lays down a narrative line so gripping - an effect achieved partly through a plethora of one-sentence paragraphs, a la Sidney Sheldon - that the reader may not notice, or care, that characterization and originality have fallen by the wayside. - Publishers Weekly