Guilty Wives
Written by James Patterson and David Ellis
Narrated by January LaVoy
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No husbands allowed.
Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and beyond, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known.
What happened last night?
In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened--something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime – for survival. Guilty Wives is the ultimate indulgence, the kind of nonstop joy-ride of excess, friendship, betrayal, and danger that only James Patterson can create.
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James Patterson
James Patterson is the CEO of J. Walter Thompson, an advertising agency in New York. He has written several successful fiction and nonfiction books, including The New York Times best seller The Day America Told the Truth.
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Reviews for Guilty Wives
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I liked it a lot!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It took me a little to get into it, but once things picked up, it was a fast interesting read. A departure somewhat from his other books, it was still enough to capture my interest and keep me wanting to find out what would happen next.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Four lovely women go on a vacation to a luxurious spot in Monte Carlo. They all come from marriages where the spark of love is missing.After enjoying the festivities, the women meet a number of men and prolong the partying on one of the men's yacht.They didn't know that their husbands had followed them and have their own plan to rid themselves of their unfaithful wives.The women also didn't know that one of the men they were with was an influential politician who was in disguise so he could have an enjoyable night on the town and not be recognized.The story was entertaining and a quick read. However, I did find the story disjointed and felt there were too many coincidences that seemed improbable.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I swore off James Patterson quite some time ago, but I love David Ellis, so I was torn when the two collaborated efforts. (Why would you do that Ellis??) But I finally broke down and read the two books the pair did (or as I see it Ellis wrote and Patterson puts his name too). The other, Mistress, I was not very impressed with but Guilty Wives was a page-turner for sure. It wasn't that you didn't know who did it, that was made pretty obvious from the get go. But the emotional train wreck of Abbie's time in prison, and her inner strength made her a character you had no choice but to root for. Hopefully these are the only two books Ellis stoops to Patterson's level with and he can get back to being a fantastic author in his own right, but should there be another I won't hesitate so long to pick it up.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I was pleasantly surprised with this book. Much better than anticipated.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5At first, the characters and setting, led me to believe that this would be like a Harlequin romance, then the mood changed. I like Patterson's mode of writing short chapters, so the reader feels compelled to continue reading. Monte Carlo and France set the stage for a thrilling story about the prison and judicial system of France. Four beautiful and bored housewives go to Monte Carlo for a "girl's weekend", but the stakes run high and dry with the women accused of murder and sentenced to life in prison. The story takes many twists and turns before the ending resolution. Patterson drops hints throughout the story implicating the real murderers, but the adventure is fun. A book better than I expected due to learning about French prisons.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another great read from James Patterson. A real page turner with more twists in it than I envisaged. A must read for lovers of crime, murder, mystery and intrigue.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Typical Patterson, moves along quickly and keeps you going long past when you should have put it away and gone to sleep. A bit overdone with the jailhouse violence for my taste, and you have to let yourself believe that a pampered woman suddenly has a superhuman will and tolerance of pain & suffering. Get past that, and it's a very enjoyable Patterson read.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5thought it was rubbish - bit like desperate houswives- found it hard to read to the end- very predictable and dissapointing!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thought this was one of Patterson's better ones... kept me guessing
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I read this book in one sitting. It's that good. Now the audiobook is that Abby Elliot voice I kept hearing in my head whilst I was reading it. Just wonderful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On. The edge of your seat throughout! Couldn't put it down.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very good book that kept me entertained and wanting to keep reading.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Had my doubts about this one... he just seems to crank out so many, but this was GOOOOD!!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Guilty Wives starts off so abruptly it has you wondering if you missed the first few pages or prologue, then it reverses back in time and begins, catching up to the start which it goes over again, then moves into the events afterwards.After the aforementioned perplexing start, it's pretty good, provided you aren't expecting a logical precise novel with plot holes you can't drive a semi trailer through. For example, the lead investigator is so utterly convinced of the guilt of the women he listens to none of the protests and gets physically and mentally abusive, and yet later in the book it takes only reading the desperate subpeanos of one of the said convicted and jailed woman to totally convince him of their innocence.This, and a few other circumstances that stretch the realms of believability but such realism isn't what one usually is expecting in a Patterson novel. So, this aside it is an entertaining novel, the narrative is tight and compelling with characters you can both rally for and despise.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm a huge James Patterson fan and to me, his books have become a little stale. A little of the same thing over and over. But this was a refreshing change. It kind of reminded me of the American girl that was wrongfully accused in Italy. The brutality in the prison is horrible and you know that happens in some prisons. But the quickness at the end of finding out how did it was too quick. I still kind of feel like there was a clear picture of why. But still an enjoyable read. Makes you want to be VERY careful what you do in a foreign country so you don't go to prison!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Cigarettes, soap operas, champagne, potato crisps and James Patterson: none of them benefits you in any way but all are compulsively addictive and, as any addict knows, avoid them altogether because once you start, it’s very difficult to stop. I’ve just enjoyed [if that’s the right word] a ‘lost weekend’ of my own recently: I managed to stay away from the cigs, champers and crisps, but made up for it by consuming three James Pattersons one after the other, chain-smoking them as it were, over two days. The prolific Mr. P has already brought out six of a projected twelve books this year but three was my limit. Until next time… The good thing about products from Patterson and Co. [he uses a team of ‘with’ writers] is that you know what to expect: the books are machine-written to a strict formula which includes entirely predictable twists but bars any real surprises. Guilty Wive is a stand-alone book which is unusual in the Patterson canon: lest the reader dismiss Patterson for writing only Dick-fic, he does sneak in the occasional nod to chick-fic, as in this book where the protagonist is a woman, Abbie Elliot, who together with her three best friends goes for a weekend break in Monte Carlo. The ‘ladies’ are middle aged, gorgeous, affluent and unhappily married so its no surprise when the action moves to a private yacht and things get a tad steamy – don't worry, nothing x-rated enough to cause a girl to blush. They are woken in the morning by French militia who haul them to shore in a state of sexy dishabille: two of the previous night’s party playmates were murdered and, even worse, the dead men were actually the President of France [whom no-one recognized in his toupee] and a bodyguard! Abbie and her gang are labeled terrorists and slapped into a women’s prison: corrupt warders, girl-on-girl action and lesbian rape beckons, and prison uniform is no substitute for sexy designer clothes. Really, Abbie had no option but to escape and prove who the real killer is. That he’s a homicidal maniac is undoubted – Patterson doesn’t write them any other way. Oh, and one of her posse is a beautiful black South African, married to an ugly short but very rich Afrikaner who beats her, is obsessively jealous and has a penchant for calling other men ‘my brar’. Oh my, could he possibly have had anything to do with the murders? Paragraph-long chapters, as many twists as a Free State road, cardboard characters and indifferent writing laden with clichés are hallmarks of the Patterson style – but I’m not slating it. He has had over 80 books published in the last ten years and while his literary talents might not rank much above those of, say, Barbara Cartland, the man is a gifted story teller with a positive genius for getting you to turn the next page. I read three in one sitting so I know.