James Patterson: Mistress

Mistress is a stand-alone James Patterson novel, as it is not part any of the series novels written by Patterson. Ben Casper is the central character of this novel. The novel is written in the first person from Ben's point of view. Ben has an obsession with recalling trivia that continually sidetracks his thoughts. At the beginning of the book his friend Diana Hotchkiss appears to commit suicide, but the more Ben looks into it, the more it looks like murder. When Ben starts looking too much into this, some group then repeatedly tries to kill him and those associated with him. His ability to remember movie trivia is what keeps him alive to search for the killer of Diana and later others around Ben.