JAMES PATTERSON-
WRITING PHENOMENON

Recently I have carried two stories on the blog about this author, one about him being the highest paid writer in the world, and the other about his recent book, PRIVATE. which he co-authored with Maxine Paetro and which I had

just read.

Now two more new titles have turned up - DON'T BLINK which he has written with Howard Roughan, and THE POSTCARD KILLERS which he has written with Liza Marklund. He has co-authored a stand-alone thriller with Roughan previously, SAIL, previously but as far as I can make out this is his first with Marklund.

DON'T BLINK is set in NYC, it opens in Lombardo's Steak House on the Upper East Side and features reporter Nick Daniels, while THE POSTCARD KILLERS features NYPD detective Jacob Kanon who is touring European cities - Rome, Madrid, Salzburg, Amsterdam, Berlin, Athens and Paris where young couples have been found murdered.

Both books are big reads, around 400 pages so fans of James Patterson are going to be kept busy in the next little while. And Patterson's annual income, in excess of US$45 million will continue to grow.

Both titles are published in London by Century and have a NZ rrp of $38.99.