Detective Jenna Murphy comes to the Hamptons to solve a murder-but what she finds is more deadly than she could ever imagine.Tryingto escape her troubled past and rehabilitate a career on the rocks,former New York City cop Jenna Murphy hardly expects her lush andwealthy surroundings to be a hotbed of grisly depravity. But when aHollywood power broker and his mistress are found dead in the abandonedMurder House, the gruesome crime scene rivals anything Jenna experiencedin Manhattan. And what at first seems like an open and shut case turnsout to have as many shocking secrets as the Murder House itself, asJenna quickly realizes that the mansion’s history is much darker thaneven the town’s most salacious gossips could have imagined.Asmore bodies surface, and the secret that Jenna has tried desperately toescape closes in on her, she must risk her own life to expose thetruth-before the Murder House claims another victim. Full of the twistsand turns that have made James Patterson the world’s #1 bestsellingwriter,The Murder Houseis a chilling, page-turning story of murder, money, and revenge.**About the AuthorJames Patterson has had moreNew York Timesbestsellers than any other writer, ever, according toGuinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977 James Patterson's books have sold more than 300 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels , the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, includingKiss the GirlsandAlong Came a Spider. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.