Confessions of a Murder Suspect

Confessions of a Murder Suspect

James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

★★★★★

          If only Caputo could interrogate Robert. You see, Robert sees stuff. He knows stuff. About the angels. About me. Such as; he knows about the time I put my foot right through his TV screen. On purpose. Or so I'm told.

 I don't even remember it. But I know wit happened because one day I was the best lacrosse player at All Saints, and the next day I woke up in the hospital with fifty stitches in my foot and leg.

At the hospital, Malcolm’s and Maud's stern faces had looked at me without sympathy.  Maud said she never thought lacrosse was good for me anyway. (I would never play again). Malcolm announced that my Big Chop was going to be repairing Robert so that he was as good as new.  (My efforts were, sadly, flawed; that's why Robert only watches static these days.) And that's pretty much all they'd told me. You don't demand answers from Malcolm and Maud.

Hugo was the only one who saw what happened. He said I flew into the apartment in such a rage that he hid behind the Claes Oldenburg sculpture and watched me kick the hell out of Robert, screaming, “They killed her. They killed her!”

            My foot crashed through Robert's screen with the force of a wrecking ball, he claims.

How could I do that? I'd need almost superhuman strength. When I asked Matthew, he shrugged and said only, “It's a piece of art, Tandy. It's not industrial strength.”

More important, though, was why would I do that. Could I really have been talking about my dead sister, Katherine?

Was I accusing Malcolm and Maud of killing their eldest daughter?

And why don’t I remember it at all?

Tandoori Angel, aka Tandy, is a whip-smart prodigy in an incredibly unusual family. Her eldest brother, Matthew, is the NFL’s poster boy and a football legend. Her eldest sister, Katherine, is dead. Harry, her twin brother, is the odd one in the family with a passion for music and art, and the ability to feel and experience emotion. Hugo, her younger brother, is a Samson look-alike with superhuman strength.

When Tandy’s parents, Malcolm and Maud Angel, are killed in a double-homicide in the middle of the night, there are only 5 possible suspects- Tandy, Matthew, Harry, Hugo and Samantha, Maud’s live-in personal assistant. And in this family, everyone has a motive; no one can be ruled out.

What is the Angel family capable of? As secrets are uncovered and past memories remembered, Tandy vows to find her parents’ killer- even if it’s her.

Confessions of a Murder Suspect is a suspenseful, complex mystery novel with an awful lot of cliffhangers. Narrated from Tandy’s point of view, a lot of unanswered questions are still left at the end of the novel, leaving possibilities for a sequel and possibly, a series. I absolutely adored this book because Tandy was such a believable character even though she was, let’s just say, extraordinary. By the end of this book, I felt like I’d really gotten to know her, and I am looking forward to a continuation of her story.  With minor profanity and violent, gruesome deaths, I would recommend this book to readers ages 14-ish. If you liked James Patterson’s Maximum Ride series, you should give this one a try. Comment and subscribe if you liked!! Thanks J