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| The Quickie | 
| Authors: James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  284 reviews
Sales Rank: 10848
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0446501646
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446501644
ASIN: 0446501646
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Product Description
When Lauren Stillwell discovers her husband leaving a hotel room with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But while she's sneaking around, her husband is hatching a plan of his own. After a torrid quickie with a co-worker, Lauren hears a struggle outside her window and looks out just in time to see her husband loading her lover's limp body into the trunk of a car. When the body shows up in a pool of shallow water, she races to the scene of the crime. But Lauren Stillwell is no regular wronged woman. She's a NYC cop--and she's just been assigned to this case. Unable to tell anyone what she saw and unwilling to turn her husband in, Lauren is paralyzed by a secret that will tear her life apart. But as she attempts to point fingers away from her husband, she uncovers something shocking: her husband didn't have an affair--what he did was far worse than she could have ever imagined. A gripping story of secrets and infidelities that begins where Adrian Lyne's movie Unfaithful leaves off, THE QUICKIE will have readers' hearts pounding to the very last page.
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 Implausible Plot October 4, 2008
Once again, James Patterson and his cohorts disappoints. Why do I keep returning for more torture? Because, I remember the great Patterson books Alex Cross series, and The Women's Murder Club books.
In THE QUICKIE, the plot sounded like a fun read......
Lauren, a Homicide Detective decides to surprise her hubby for lunch, and discovers he's fooling around with someone else. Lauren gets even by having an affair herself.
Once the story got going the plot was so far-fetched, it was laughable. The only saving grace was that the reader of this audio book, Mary Stuart Masterson, did a great job reading the ridiculous story, and I hung on until the end. Why? I'm not sure.
BORROW this one.
 Love James Patterson! September 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I always look forward to reading the next James Patterson book, and this one certainly did not dissapoint me...it was wonderful, suspense filled, and kept me turning pages! I finished it in less than a day...and it left me now to wait for his next one...Keep em coming!
Not a "quickie" to read, first half of book a chore to get through September 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Disappointed, only stuck with first half of story because author usually is so good, in my opinion. Had to push to read until second half or so, then pace, interest and prose picked up to what I expect from this author.
Almost seemed like two different authors wrote two separate sections of book!!!
One of the best books I've read September 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the first book by Patterson I read. I only checked it out from the library because the book I wanted was checked out and I had seen The Quickie on one of those best murder mystery novel lists on the side of amazon pages when you're browsing. I expected to take about two weeks to read the book. I finished it in two days! For a man, he tells one hell of a story from a woman's point of view, and his chapters are so short you never want to put it down. You always feel like the conflict is done, but then something else comes up. Fabulous plot and twist after twist!
 Great premise; average delivery September 23, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Brooklyn detective Lauren Stillwell decides to drive into Manhattan and surprise her husband for lunch, only to discover him with another woman. Proving two can play that game, she has a one night stand with a colleague, only to witness a brutal killing soon after and finds that she must lie to cover up her actions as well as those of her husband in order to keep her actions secret. But as events unravel, Lauren discovers that not everything is as it seems and isn't sure who she can trust.
I gave up on Patterson years ago after he started churning out novels as quickly as Basking Robins creates new flavors (with co-authors no less), but on recommendation of a friend, gave this one a chance. The plotting is as good as his early Alex Cross novels like "Along Came a Spider" and "Kiss the Girls." Every time I thought I knew the direction the story would take, it went off in another direction. The main problem I had with the story is the use of first person, which I think belongs in chick lit novels. Couple that with the sometimes lacking dialogue and the numerous short chapters. It's as if each time a character takes a breath, boom - next chapter; it made the story seem somewhat incomplete. For the plot, I would give it 4 stars, but the actual delivery was more like 3.
Tracy Vest, September 2008
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