HOLMES, MARPLE, AND POE: The Greatest Crime-Solving Team of the Twenty-First Century by JAMES PATTERSON

HOLMES, MARPLE, AND POE: The Greatest Crime-Solving Team of the Twenty-First Century by JAMES PATTERSON  (PGS 352)

Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple and August Poe run the most in-demand private investigation firm in New York City.

The three detectives make a formidable team, solving a series of seemingly impossible crimes which expose the dark underbelly of the city; from priceless art theft, a high-stakes kidnapping, and a decades-old unsolved murder, to a gruesome subterranean prison, and corruption and bribery at the highest levels of power.

But it's not long before their headline-grabbing breakthroughs, unconventional methods - and untraceable pasts - attract the attention of the NYPD and the FBI.

After all, it's no surprise that there's a mystery or two to unravel in the city that never sleeps . . . not least, who really are Holmes, Marple and Poe?

This is the first James Patterson that I have read in year, and sadly, I wasn't too impressed. I give it a 3/5.