1st To Die (Womens Murder Club 1) - Softcover

Patterson, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755349261 ISBN 13: 9780755349265

Publisher: Headline, 2009

Synopsis

Lindsay Boxer has to be tough, especially as she is the only woman homicide inspector in San Francisco. But nothing has prepared her for the brutal maniac who has begun a killing spree - slaughtering newlywed couples. Sickened by the deaths, her determination to bring the murderer to justice is threatened by a personal tragedy. She turns to Cindy Thomas, a journalist, Claire Washburn, a coroner and Jill Bernhardt, an attorney, for help with both cases. This book has 470 pages and is 19.7cm x 12.7cm x 3cm

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Review:

James Patterson inaugurates a new crime series with the impressively complex First to Die: the Women's Murder Club, a group of San Francisco professionals--a homicide cop, an assistant district attorney, a pathologist and a reporter--share their information and thinking on cases. Someone is killing honeymoon couples on their first night together and nothing that we know about the killer is, we realise, entirely reliable: the connections between the victims are tenuous and the killer's method varies significantly. Intelligent, sensitive, tough cop Lindsay Boxer has problems of her own--a potentially fatal blood condition and a suspicion that she is falling for the intelligent divorced spin-doctor forced on her as partner by a publicity-conscious city government. The conversations she has with her friends are partly a matter of looking again at the results of legwork--sometimes explaining something to people who do not share your automatic assumptions makes you look at it again--and partly a matter of sharing expertise; rapidly they realise that they are up against someone for whom murder is a sexual game. Patterson has always had an eye for the psychology of killers--here he adds empathy for those to whom caring about victims is a way of life. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

Ticks like a time bomb - full of threat and terror (Los Angeles Times)

Brilliantly terrifying...so exciting I had to stay up all night to finish it (Daily Mail)

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0755349261
• ISBN 13: 9780755349265
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480