Invisible

- By James Patterson with David Ellis

One of the best crime thrillers I read in recent times. Certainly a page turner that kept me hooked. James Patterson is not new at weaving a web of suspense, nor is his style unknown. He is a master plotter and this book does not disappoint his fans. Along with David Ellis, he manages to keep the reader engrossed in the plot with interesting twists and keeps the adrenaline pumping all through the novel.

Emmy Dockery is an FBI research analyst who lost her sister in a fire accident. Though the police rule it out as an accident, she believes its a murder committed by a serial killer capable of pulling off a perfect crime that looks like an accident. Without support from her superiors, she launches her personal mission, scouring through the internet for fires that look like accidents and the more she researches, the more convinced she is, that the fire was no accident but a perfectly executed murder. Having been disciplined by her superiors and mocked by newspapers, she turns to her ex-fiance, Harrison Books Bookman, who was an ex-FBI agent, to help her. Having gone through her research, though he is skeptical about the case, he believes in her and manages to get an approval for a small team of four members to take the case further.

The rest of the novel is about revelations: Is Emma, in her own mind fabricating a case because she is unable to accept her sister's death as an accident? Or, is Emma's research true? The truth in either case is tantalizingly close with every page turned, yet that bit far, to keep you engrossed, with enough twists in the plot to keep even an avid crime reader in suspense.

Not a book to overlook, definite read for any mystery lover.

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