How long does it take to read The Beach House?
James Patterson, Peter De Jonge
The Beach House by James Patterson, Peter De Jonge takes about 6 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 39 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 363 pages, about 99,825 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Jack Mullen is in law school in New York City when the shocking news comes that his brother Peter has drowned in the ocean off East Hampton. Jack knows his brother and knows this couldnt be an accident. Someone must have wanted his brother dead. But the powers that be say otherwise. As Jack tries to uncover details of his brothers last night, he confronts a barricade of lawyers, police, and paid protectors who separate the multibillionaire summer residents from local workers like Peter. And he learns that his brother wasnt just parking cars at the summer parties of the rich. He was making serious money satisfying the sexual needs of the richest women and men in town. THE BEACH HOUSE reveals the secret lives of celebrities in a breathtaking drama of revengewith a finale so shocking it could only have come from the mind of James Patterson.
Subjects: Fiction, Brothers, Rich people, Drowning victims, Seaside resorts, Death
