Mistress – James Patterson

What would you do if one of your friends asked you to install surveillance equipment in his or her home and jumped out the window afterwards? Benjamin Casper, an editor of an online newspaper, is confronted with this problem when his friend Diana Hotchkiss does precisely that. While he is trying to figure out why Diana would kill herself, he realizes that he might have got mixed up in something sinister. A cop gives him ticket for erratic driving as he is fleeing from Diana’s apartment thus establishing the fact that he was in the vicinity at the time of the murder. The surveillance equipment that he had installed in her apartment vanishes in thin air. And as if all this isn’t enough, Ben finds that someone is desperately trying to kill him. The problem is – he doesn’t have a clue as to why.

You should never read any James Patterson novel at bedtime – because you will keep reading it way beyond your nap time. Suffice it to say that this one is no exception to that rule. :)

A confession is in order though. Since I rejoined the library – after a long gap of about 8 months, if I may add – I have been meaning to read ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’. Even when I went to the library to return ‘Mistress’, I had intended to check out ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’. But then I saw a Mary Higgins Clark novel and got it instead.

Next time, it is going to be ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’.