Individually, James Patterson and Candice Fox are outstanding thriller writers. Put them together, and the results are often something special. This time, their joint effort is 2 SISTERS MURDER INVESTIGATIONS, the second entry in their 2 Sisters Detective Agency Mystery series.

Rhonda and Barbara “Baby” Bird are half-sisters. Their father left his private detective agency behind when he passed away, and they reluctantly decided to keep it going. Rhonda is a former attorney and much older than 16-year-old Baby, who is aggressive and quite smart, if not a tad uncontrollable. They must get along if the firm is going to be successful, which is easier said than done. They agree on hardly anything, and Baby resents how Rhonda attempts to be a mother figure instead of her sibling. In reality, their personalities complement the business well, and they have begun to lean on their strengths to keep things moving forward.

"2 SISTERS MURDER INVESTIGATIONS is full of plot twists and multiple characters moving around like chess pieces, which is exactly what you would expect from a Patterson and Fox collaboration."

Rhonda and Baby take on various cases, typically fighting for the underdog and butting heads with the local police department. Their lives change forever when a well-known face darkens the doorway of their agency. Troy Hansen, an actor who everyone in America suspects of killing his wife, Daisy, wants to hire them to clear his name. Daisy is missing, and Troy denies harming her in any way. But he lays something far more serious at their feet in the form of a box he found buried under their house. It is full of information and items that may or may not have been a serial killer’s trophy collection. This is an explosive situation, and Rhonda and Baby need to find the underlying cause of it before it backfires on them.

The sisters follow up on some of the names in the box, and a number of them are still listed as missing. They must tread carefully here and involve the police so that everything is done legitimately and their firm’s reputation can remain intact. Meanwhile, Troy is still a concern, and alarm bells are sounded when they find out that Daisy deposited a quarter of a million dollars into their bank account from an alleged lottery win.

There are so many balls being juggled by Rhonda and Baby, and the relationships they are involved in complicate matters. Not only are they at risk of being shut down by the police for overstepping, they are in a lot of danger and not prepared to face this level of intensity.

2 SISTERS MURDER INVESTIGATIONS is full of plot twists and multiple characters moving around like chess pieces, which is exactly what you would expect from a Patterson and Fox collaboration.