Book Review: NYPD Red 2

Title:  NYPD Red 2
Author:  James Patterson
Pages:  392
Publication Date:  2014
Version:  Audio Book
Genre:  Adult Fiction (Mystery)

Summary Via Goodreads.com:
"NYPD Red--the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city--hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission.

A vengeful murderer, named the "Hazmat Killer" by the press, has taken it on himself to track down and kill people whose crimes have not been punished by the justice system. A video surfaces online after each killing, showing the victim confessing to an awful crime.

There are those who secretly applaud the vigilante killer. NYPD Red Detective Zach Gordon and his partner Kylie MacDonald are called in after a woman of vast wealth and even greater connections disappears. Political and personal secrets of the highest order are in the balance, and Zach and Kylie have less than 24 hours to find what is really behind this murderer's rampage--and stop him before he kills again.

NYPD RED II is the next spectacular installment in James Patterson's newest series, a book that shows "there's no stopping his imagination." (New York Times Book Review) "

My Review:

I didn't think there would be a book that could top the wonderful feeling I got of loving a book after I read NYPD Red; turns out there IS another book that can make me love every page of it, it's called NYPD Red 2!!!  The same characters I came to know and love in the first book come to life in an even bigger and better way in this second book.  The case is just as important too.  I do have to say that I didn't care to hear about the political angles of the characters and the big case, but it was all necessary in the book and making the book as great as it was.  Zach and Kylie are a great team no matter what their past personal relationship.  Also, to say I just love the spitfire Cates and the tell it like it is Cheryl is an understatement!  These characters make the book and add so much to the whole mystery of it all.  

In this book I just loved the look into the personal lives of these characters.  It was more in depth than the previous book had been and I just loved it!  The mystery of the Hazmat Killer is so edge of your seat you could fall off your chair while reading.  I thought I was so smart and had it all figures out, just like Zach and Kylie thought they had it all figured out.  Also just like the dynamic duo, I too fell flat on my face when I was blindsided by how wrong I was and what the answers really were.  Usually in mystery books I have it all figured out, and am right, by the middle of the book.  In this mystery I 'thought' I had it all solved, but couldn't have been more wrong.  When the truth came to light I was absolutely shocked, at the truth and at the fact I never saw it coming!  This is, however, all part of why I have come to love James Patterson as an author.  He never disappoints me...he had movie script books that are flawlessly played out in my head as I read them due to his wonderful writing style.

This is a great follow-up to the first NYPD Red and is a definite must read!  I would recommend, however, that you read the first one before this one.  I think it would be ok to read without, but some things are not explained in very much detail, as they happened in great detail in book one, and they are needed to make this read the best it can be.

5/5 Stars!!!!!