James Patterson

David Ellis

How can you prove your innocence when you can't remember the crime? Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patti, also followed in their father's footsteps, Billy would give up everything for the job, including his life. After a brutal shooting, Billy is left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and an ambitious assistant district attorney out for blood. But somehow Billy survives. He remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout and is charged with double murder. Desperate to clear his name, Billy retraces his steps to get to the bottom of what happened. When he discovers the existence of a little black book that everyone who's anyone in Chicago will stop at nothing to get their hands on, Billy suspects it contains the truth that will either set him free, or confirm his worst fears...

The Black Book

Barbara Williford

It has been a while since I’ve give a James Patterson co-written book a rave review. This book is that!

Billy follows his father and sister into the life of being a detective. When he is shot in what appears to be a tangled love gone wrong, he must survive, come out of the coma and memory blackout to figure out who shot him, his girlfriend and partner before he’s prosecuted for 4 murders.

This book had so many twist and turns riddled with deception and scandals it was hard to figure out the bad guy. The ended had such a dramatic twist you didn’t see it coming.

Judy Hudgins

Enough twists to make it pretty interesting. But a lots of bloodshed. Interesting ending.

Barbara

Shay

Mikaela 

For Detective Billy Harney, the distance from hero to statistic is one false move. To Harney, the newest member of Chicago PD's elite strike force -- Special Operations Section (SOS) -- getting shot in the head, stalked by a state's attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is all part of breaking a case. So when a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's west side turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. But Harney's instincts -- his father was once chief of detectives and his twin sister, Patti, is also on the force -- run deep. As a population hungry for justice threatens to riot, he realizes that the three known victims are hardly the only ones. When Harney starts asking questions about who's to blame, the easy answers prove to be the wrong ones. On the flip side, the less he seems to know, the longer he can keep his clandestine investigation going ... until Harney's quest to expose the evil that's rotting the city from the inside out takes him to the one place he vowed never to return: his own troubled past.

The Black Book

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