About this title: Three people are dead and a baby is missing after a mysterious explosion rips through a San Francisco neighborhood. Three days later, a businessman is murdered, and a note left behind at each scene links the two incidents. The Women's Murder Club--Detective Lindsay Boxer, Assistant D.A., Medical Examiner Jill Berhardt, Claire Washburn, and reporter Cindy Thomas--begin tracking down the perpetrator, only to find that the killer's next target is one of them. Is the Women's Murder Club about to lose a member? This is the third installment in a bestselling series.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Warner Books Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780446614832ISBN:0446614831
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Slight edgewear to wrap and minor cpine creasing. Note on first page otherwise interior is clean and very good. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Warner Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780446614832ISBN:0446614831
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Fold lines to spine from reading. Page tanning from age. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 360 p. Women's Murder Club (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
"This series is still good and I am still enjoying it for the second time, but I did get a little deja vu where Lindsay Boxer is concerned. Seems she has a fondness for greeting her male co workers at the door in only a towel. Anybody else make that connection? Nevertheless, the novel, the third in the Women's Murder Club series is still entertaining and this time there is a shocking twist. Somebody dies. What I love about this series is that not everything is bright and dandy for these very realistic women and bad things happen to good people like in real life. This particular twist in the series follows terroism. An extreme environmentalist group or some such is terrorizing the citizens of San Francisco and Lindsay, Jill, Claire, and Cindy have to get to the bottom of it before one of them dies. While all the terrorism is going on, Lindsay has a romance and Jill has some issues in her personal life that a lot of women readers out there will relate to. This one has a little less Lindsay, more Jill, but is as usual, told from Lindsay's point of view."
"Third in the Women's Murder Club series. So very easy to read - takes no times at all.
Back Cover Blurb: Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street as a ferocious blast rips through the neighbourhood. A townhouse owned by an internet millionaire explodes into flames, three people die and a sinister note signed 'August Spies' is found at the scene. Soon a wave of violence sweeps through the city - and it seems that whoever is behind it is intent on killing someone every three days. Even more terrifying, the four friends who call themselves the Women's Murder Club discover that the killer has targeted one of them. And Lindsay learns that one member of the club is hiding a secret so dangerous and unbelievable that it could destroy them all."
"I listened to the audiobook version of this book. The narrator is very entertaining and a talented story teller. I have enjoyed these mysteries not only for the continuing story of it's characters but also for the location of San Fransisco and references to Northern California where I live. I like James Patterson's writing and am looking forward to reading other books by him besides The Women's Murder Club series."
"Patterson and Gross bring the Ladies Murder Club to a whole knew level with their third installment. In the post 9/11 world of literature, terrorism has definitely come to the fore, and the authors turn to domestic terrorism as a basis for their story.
It all starts one Sunday morning when Lt. Lindsay Boxer is doing her usual run with her friend Jill Bernhardt, San Francisco's Assistant DA. The two part ways after the run, leaving Lindsay to relax for a few minutes. It gives her just enough time to become a witness to a house explosion. Being the great cop that she is, she puts aside her safety and races into the burning building to look for survivors. She finds three dead bodies and evidence that there was a little girl in the building as well. Unfortunately, the toddler is missing. Other witness saw a young blond woman, the au pair, running off with the girl.
The home was owned by a wealthy (and some say greedy) businessman who owned a successful computer company. It does not take long before Cindy, a friend of Lindsay and Jill who is a leading reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, start receiving information from Augustus Spies. This group is claiming ownership of the bombing as a protest against the approaching G8 conference that is going to be held in the city. They are blaming greed, big business, and the government for stepping on the "little man," leaving him abused and broken. Their vengeance will hopefully change that, and the bombing is just the first attack with others to follow later, each involving the poison sarin.
Since it has become clear that terrorism is tied to the case, the Department of Homeland Security is brought in. Fortunately for Lindsay, the assigned agent, Assistant Director Joe Molinari has decided to work with her rather than taking the case away from the locals. They create a strong working relationship, strong enough that it starts to have a tinge of romance involved.
As if Lindsay and her friends didn't have enough to worry about, she notices some bruises on Jill's arms. It is a pattern she has recognized in the past through her work, and Lindsay feels the need to bring it up with her long time friend. It does not take long for her to confirm that Jill's husband Stephen has been abusing her. Cindy, Lindsay, and city medical examiner and final member of the club Claire jump to the ready to lend their support to their good friend.
I finished this book in just one day. I couldn't put it down!!! It definitely has the usual level of action and intrigued, but the added element of the global economy adds a touch of a Tom Clancy feel to the story line. Patterson and Gross also make it clear that they are willing to sacrifice anything and anyone in the line of telling a good tale. Fans of the series will be totally surprised and shocked by what happens in this one."
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