| This book seemed a bit slow starting for a James | | | | over the past few years. The courtroom action |
| Patterson book. I thought I might have read too many | | | | becomes a large part of the book. Victim after victim |
| of his books and was expecting too much. But no, I | | | | testifies describing the loss of their loved one, a loss |
| was not disappointed. As I continued through the book, | | | | not expected at all. Larry Kramer, the attorney for the |
| it became very interesting and exciting, right down to | | | | hospital, also parades his witnesses for the hospital; |
| the last chapter and the Epilogue. | | | | each telling the hospital couldn't be responsible for |
| The 5th Horseman is one of the Women's Murder | | | | these deaths as they have a foolproof medication |
| Club series that Patterson has established. Patients in | | | | system through their computers. The action gets hot |
| San Francisco Municipal Hospital are dying when they | | | | and heavy, in the courtroom and outside as the police |
| should not be. Patients of all ages are found dead in | | | | pursue their leads. |
| their beds with a small coin on each eye. When a new | | | | No one is working harder than the Women's Murder |
| member of The Women's Murder Club, Yuki | | | | Club as they trail some of the suspects quietly, and |
| Castellano, has to have her mother taken to the | | | | some times NOT so quietly! Dr. Garza remains on the |
| Emergency Room in this hospital, she and her friends | | | | top of their list especially since some personnel in the |
| have much concern. Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer of the | | | | hospital furnished some information to them. All the |
| San Francisco Police Department takes a personal | | | | time, Lindsay Boxer tries to keep her long-distance |
| interest in these deaths now that her new friend's | | | | romance active with her boy friend, Joe, who is an |
| mother is involved. Two other members of the club, | | | | agent with the FBI in Washington, DC. This is very |
| Claire, the San Francisco Chief Medical Examiner, and | | | | difficult with both of them too busy most of the time |
| Cindy, a reporter, also become more involved. There | | | | and "phone dates" are not the best kind of socializing. |
| are just too many deaths for their minds to assimilate. | | | | Meanwhile the Night Walker continues the killing and |
| Emergency Room Dr. Dennis Garza seems to always | | | | placing the coins on the eyes. Who is this vicious and |
| be at the wrong place, at the wrong time as far as the | | | | uncaring killer who has no respect for anyone's age or |
| police were concerned. He immediately becomes one | | | | health condition? Even a person with just a simple |
| of the main suspects, despite having alibis most of the | | | | broken bone is not safe if the Night Walker wants |
| time. Attorney, Maureen O'Mara, has filed a suit against | | | | them DEAD! |
| the hospital for the many victims that have lost family | | | | |