Book Review: Confessions of a Murder Suspect, by James Patterson

Book Review: Confessions of a Murder Suspect, by James Patterson
Spoilers alert!

Synopsis:

James Patterson returns to the genre that made him famous with a thrilling teen detective series about the mysterious and magnificently wealthy Angel family...and the dark secrets they're keeping from one another.
On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone—maybe not even herself. Having grown up under Malcolm and Maud's intense perfectionist demands, no child comes away undamaged. Tandy decides that she will have to clear the family name, but digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs is a dangerous-and revealing-game. Who knows what the Angels are truly capable of?


Book Review:

     I picked up this book for half off at Target, excited to find a James Patterson book I hadn't read. 
     I was disappointed.
     James Patterson's style of writing was as close to perfect as could be, as always, but I found the book to be rather anticlimactic and boring. It is just another murder mystery that turned out not to actually be "murder," and the one suspect who could "crack the case" chose to stay silent until the end of the book, which led to a boring and disappointing ending.
    Also, the main character, Tandy, suffers from memory loss for the majority of the book, which was never explained. Neither was the loss of funds for Angel Pharma, or the conviction of the children's uncle for shipping illegal drugs. In fact, I'm not even sure he was convicted.
    Not to mention the fact that the whole book was leading up to finding out who killed Tandy's parents, when, instead, the parents killed themselves. I, for one, was disappointed.
    Part of Tandy's memory loss was connected to this mystery boy, and in the end, when everything was finally revealed, nothing about him seemed to tie in with the rest of the story, apart from having something to write about in the Confessions sections every other chapter.
     However, the plot was intriguing for the most part, so this story wasn't a complete disappointment. I did enjoy a lot of it. But the flaws ruined most of it for me, making this a not-so good read.
     Two out of five stars.