Short & Sweet Review: Private India: City on Fire by James Patterson

Title: Private India: City on Fire

Author: James Patterson

Series: Private #8

Published: November 2014, Grand Central Publishing

Format: Paperback, 384 pages

Source: Personal copy

Summary: 

When Santosh Wagh isn’t
struggling out of a bottle of whisky he’s head of Private India, the
Mumbai branch of the world’s finest PI agency.

In a city of over
thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times. But now
someone is killing women – seemingly unconnected women murdered in a
chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death
scenes.

As Santosh and his team race to find the killer, an even
greater danger faces Private India – a danger that could threaten the
lives of thousands of innocent Mumbai citizens.

***Short & Sweet Reviews are
short, quick reviews. These will mainly be used for series books where I
have already done full reviews on some of the earlier books or for
books that I feel will suffice with a quick review. These will not be
used for review requests or blog tours.

My thoughts: As I make my way through the Private series this year, I have to say this one definitely hasn’t been a favorite in the series so far. It still has a lot of the trademark qualities I’ve come to enjoy in the Private series – lots of action, many different threads going on at once, the Private team on the hunt for a killer – but something just didn’t click for me. I think it’s that I had a hard time connecting with this new Private team.  I didn’t particularly like Santosh and that might have been the problem. But luckily, the mystery itself kept me interested enough to keep me from abandoning this book. Hopefully the next one will be better!

Books in this series:

*This
list contains both the Private home office books and the Private other
offices books combined. Some lists keep these as separate. And some
books have 2 different names, depending on where you buy them.

     1.  Private

     2.  Private #1 Suspect

     3.  Private Games

     4.  Private London

     5.  Private Berlin

     6.  Private L.A.

     7.  Private Oz / Private Down Under 

     8.  Private India: City on Fire

     9.  Private Vegas

     10.  Private Paris

     11.  Private Rio / The Games

     12.  Private Sydney / The Missing

     12.5  Bookshots – Private Royals

     13.  Private Delhi / Count to Ten

     13.5  Bookshots – Private: Gold 

     14.  Private Princess