The Beach House

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Jack knows his brother and knows this couldn’t be an accident; someone must have wanted his brother dead.

But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M. The fact of the matter is, The Beach House is an excellent novel full of intrigue, emotion, and mystery. Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs.The story itself was disturbing and so unbelievable -- A rookie lawyer, alongside his grandpa and buddies, kidnaps a bunch of wealthy Hamptonians who are responsible for his brother's death.

S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. Jack Mullen is in law school in New York City when the shocking news comes that his brother Peter has drowned in the ocean off East Hampton. Jack feels his brother could never have drowned because he was a strong swimmer and knew the Atlantic since childhood. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.All I had to do was open the glove compartment and look at the registration, but that would have spoiled the surprise.

Meanwhile, Jack gradually builds up a team of people who agree with the fact that Peter was murdered. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The Beach House reveals the secret lives of celebrities in a breathtaking drama of revenge-with a finale so shocking that only James Patterson could have written it. Jack tries to uncover what really happened on the beach that night, only to confront a wall of silence; a barricade of shadowy people who protect the privileges of the multi-billionaire summer residents. It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder.Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. Since winning the Edgar™ Award for Best First Novel with The Thomas Berryman Number, his books have sold in excess of 300 million copies worldwide and he has been the most borrowed author in UK libraries for the past eight years in a row. I can't believe it took me so long to read this book, I started loving to read late in life only about 2 years ago so I am very behind!

It's not much of a surprise, but the elaborate and believable setup that Patterson stages is suspenseful enough to keep the reader flipping every page until they finally get to the inevitable conclusion. Read how Jack and his crew of friends, the average working class, confront the wealthy and uncover secrets that will shock you and leave you perplex. With *The Beach House*, I found it to be interesting how fast you can read through a book with small chapters. Effectively moving and comedic at the same time, Patterson's main character gives The Beach House a much more invigorating tale. It’s hard for me to admit, but in the start, I was more invested in his destiny, than finding Peter’s killer.Jack brings int he help of his grandfather, a private eye with who he starts to build a relationship, and a small group of locals to try and prove that Peter was in fact murdered and that there is a major cover-up with a surprising and disturbing sexual twist. On the night in question, Peter had been hired to work as a valet at a huge Memorial Day bash on the Long Island estate of the extremely wealthy and influential Barry Neubauer and family. Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense.