Since I got sucked into Patterson's series, aka "women's murder club" (yuck, what a morbid name!), I've felt compelled to keep going.I guess this is what happens to collectors. You don't really need that 18th item in the set of miniature KLM houses (see the Wall Street Journal 31 May 2008; unfortunately a for-fee online subscription so not easily linkable), but at this point you're just too invested in the experience to quit.
So the book: not bad, better than most. Still not a big murder mystery fan though (a bad attribute for someone committed to this series).