4 Blind Mice: James Patterson

Alex's partner Sampson comes to him on the day he planned to retire to ask if he'd look into a friend as a favor. The friend, Ellis Cooper, has been convicted of murder and is set for lethal injection. After digging around Alex and Sampson uncover other instances where people were killed and then painted and another man was put to death for these same crimes, though he too pleaded he was innocent. In the end the story went back to Vietnam and how the US military treated the Vietnamese. A man whose family was murdered, Tran Van Luu, set up the murder spree from prison in retaliation for his family. Alex is with the 3 men who were actually doing the murder for hire when Tran Van Luu's Vietnamese buddies come to finish them off to clear up the crimes. They escort Alex to safety and when Alex brings the police back to the spot the 3 men are dead. In this story both Samson and Alex fall in love. This was actually the story where I finally asked myself why I read these books, (I inherited a friend's collection) because I don't enjoy them, so this is my last! whoo hoo!