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.

Here we have still another James Patterson Thriller, this one co-authored by Michael Ledwidge, who is a thriller writer in his own right, and I have to say, despite all the criticism I've heard of these shotgun delivery James Patterson novels, I've really liked the last two I've read and I really liked this one, so much so that I'm going to have to go out and get Step on a Crack next and see if Messers Patterson and Ledwidge have the same tense suspense there as they've dripped all through this one.

NYPD Homicide Detective Lauren Stillwell plans to surprise her husband broker Paul Stillwell but when she shows up for her planned surprise lunch, she's the one who is surprised. She sees hubby dear entering a hotel with a hottie blonde. This won't do, it just won't do, so Lauren decides on getting a little revenge and has a little quickie of her own with undercover cop Scott Thayer. Just a little sex on the side, nothing more.

But it turns into more, because hubby Paul kills lover Scott and detective Lauren sees it live. What to do, what to do? She can't come forward, she'd lose her job, so she decides to cover for Paul and if you don't think that setup isn't enough to keep you burning the midnight oil, then you gotta close the book and turn on PBS, because you're not a thriller reader. There are twists I didn't see coming, turns I missed completely in this story that reminds me of Patterson of old. You won't be disappointed with this one.

James Patterson adds another to a long list of suspense/thrillers. New York Detective takes revenge on a cheating husband and ends up watching her husband kill her lover. She then uses every ruse to cover-up the crime to protect her career, her husband, and the innocent victims.
Loaded with surprises, at every turn of the short chapter pages to the gripping end without much story line in between. For all the build up it was much too predictable. A good read for a night of insomnia.
I am surprised this one wasn't labeled a "tearjerker" because the heroine sure was heavy on the water works---overdone to the point of boredom. Her detective partner is the one of the few admirable characters in THE QUICKIE .
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Boring, no "who dunnit", too neat and put together. A problem arises, and quickly and easily fixed. I had to finish this book hoping there would be something at the end to put it all together proving I was wrong, that there really was a bigger story, but no, just a dumb book. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Waste of time.

Lauren is a character that you can't help but identify with. Through the scituations she is faced with we can only imagine how we would react. Although as usual nothing goes as expected, Patterson delivers his usual quick & quite enjoyable read. The twists and turns will keep you reading his bite size chapters late into the night.

As I love Law and Order the TV Show I somewhat liked this books because the concept goes very much the same as an episode. However, I got tired of all the "and then" moments where you find something else about the plot or the characters. Utterly unbelievable. On the plus side it does give you two stories for the price of one. It's a rapid paced book, otherwise I don't think I'd have finished it.