James Brendan Patterson is an American author and philanthropist. Patterson was born on March 22, 1947, in Newburgh, New York, the son of Isabelle, a homemaker and teacher, and Charles Patterson, an insurance broker. In 1996 Patterson quit his advertising job to concentrate on writing. While continuing to work on the profitable Alex Cross series, he began to branch out into other literary genres, such as romance novels and historical fiction. For Miracle on the 17th Green, an inspirational story about a middle-aged golfer, Patterson undertook the practice of writing with a coauthor, and many of his subsequent novels were collaborations. He launched a second series with 1st to Die, which introduced readers to the Women’s Murder Club, a quartet of women professionals who team up to solve crimes. The series proved popular and served as the basis for a short-lived television series. Battling double life-threatening situations, Lindsay fights a potentially fatal disease attacking her own body while she tracks a cold-blooded killer. In cahoots with her are three female friends: a medical examiner, an assistant district attorney, and a reporter assigned to the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. The four jokingly call themselves the Women’s Murder Club as they share insider knowledge of the crimes that have left their city in shock and are spreading across the United States: the serial killings of brides and grooms shortly after their weddings… Enjoy free online English audiobook “1st to die”, a novel by James Patterson.
