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All marriages have some problems and Lauren Stillwell's marriage is no exception. But when Lauren accidentally sees her husband with another woman going into a hotel, she's angry and decides to get even by sleeping with a co-worker with whom she had been innocently flirting. When, at the place of their tryst, she sees her husband beat up and drive away with the bloodied body of her new lover, she can hardly believe it. And when, on her radio, she hears about a body found and she shows up at the scene, Lauren's almost rattled beyond sanity when she's assigned the case! Well, she is a homicide detective and her lover was a fellow cop. As worried and anxious as she is on getting the case, she knows that she must continue with the charade of being a good detective if she is to ever save herself and her career from the terrible turn of events. But as she investigates, making sure to hide facts from her fellow cops and her friends on the long chain of evidence, she discovers more and more things about the case that brings her to the edge of her sanity. Is it possible that her husband was innocent of adultery? Is it possible that her wonderful lover wasn't the good guy and cop that she thought he was? What other real facts come up that make her doubt everything about her life before her one quickie? As has come to be usual with James Patterson's latest books, everything about this story is indeed a quickie, from the short chapters, to the fast-paced scenes, to the feel that the book was written with the idea of it being all about twists and nothing about a solid murder mystery with a hard investigative story. This book does nothing more than take a fast premise and pad it with twists that go so fast that the readers are expected not to think about the logic of it, and it's taken for granted that no one will bother to spend any time thinking about the things that make no sense after the last page is read. When Patterson wants to, he can write some absolutely, amazingly great books. When he doesn't care about the quality of his books, some pretty darn worthless stories are written. THE QUICKIE is firmly in that category. THE QUICKIE isn't worth the time Patterson or the readers spent on it.
Reviewed by A. L. Katz, June 2007
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