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James Patterson

The Harriet Blue Series

Black & Blue
Harriet Blue confronts a serial killer - the Georges River Killer - who's murdering people in San Francisco:
Called to solve another mystery, the death of a prostitute, Claudia Burrows - she mistakingly thinks it's the work of the killer, but her partner, Tox Barnes, a man who was supposed to have killed a woman when still a child, understands this crime had been perpetrated by another doer.
The inquiries bring them to discover one of Claudia's colleagues, Hope, who, out of revenge had killed her and was going to kill another colleague, Jenny Spelling and her husband, whom they kept prisoners in a yacht she had always dreamf of.
After a violent confrontation, Hope is killed and Harriet can come back to her River killer; only to find out that he's just been caught: he's Samuel Blue, Harriet's brother.

Never Never
When Harry's brother is arrested for the murders of three young women, her boss needs to get the mercurial Harry away "for her own good" from Sydney and a merciless press. She is assigned to a mining camp in Western Australia with a new partner from Perth to solve the disappearance of a young miner. Soon this disappearance turns into more and Harry finds she can trust no one, not even her partner, in her new rough and tumble surroundings.
In the end the killer of those guys results to be Gabe Carter, who Harriet relied to as a partner to find out the man behind the crimes  and who  - later - became her lover, too.
Gabe Carter, in a final confrontation, shoots Harriet but she just pretends she's dead and kills him.

Fifty Fifty
Harriet Blue punches a lawyer during his brother Sam's trial as main suspect of being the Georges Rover killer, and is arrested.
Together with the woman who has charged with her custody, she witnesses an explosion in Last Chance Valley, a village populated by little more than 50 people.
One of them, Theo Campbell, is killed and a message threatening to make more damages to the whole place is found in a form of a diary.
Harriet is in charge of the case together with her partner, Elliot Kash.
They find a village full of weird people and hidden secrets; some youngsters seem to be in charge of the whole village until one of them Zac Toby, is killed in a car explosion contrived by some of them.
Harriet and Kash eventually find out that the people of the village had found out a gold deposit and had decided to make a fortune out of it instead of making the news public.
The plan is discovered since it is entertwined by the main plot, which is represented by the events linking Harriet Blue to the River Killer being her brother.
The killer had actually abducted another girl, Caitlyn McBeal who manages to free herself; Bella, an investigator, finds her and sends her to Harriet; but when Bella sees Harriet, she points a gun at her and carries Blue to a room where John Destro, Last Chance's Mayor, is bound and gagged.
Bella tells Harriet Blue he is a pedophile/pornographer and asked Theo Campbell to defend him in exchange of his silence about the gold deposit; but he refused and that's why he was killed; so Bella seeked revenge and threatened the whole town; she killed Zac Toby, too; the police, on Harriet Blue's trail, finds them a moment before Bella could detonate the bomb and save Harriet, killing Bella.
In the meantime Caitlyn's abductor, Randy Regan is caught by Tox Barnes, another Blue's colleague; he manages to escape, though, even if Harriet now knows that her brother was totally innocent and Regan framed him because of ancient frictions when they were kids.
But in the very end, Sam Blue is killed in a prison riot.
Harriet swears revenge on Regan.

Liar Liar
Regan Banks comes back roaring in this new episode: we see him abduct and kill a surgeon and her child to mend a wound he had.
In a short while 2 cops and more people are killed by him; he penetrates the Police Department to find news about Harriet and contacts her; he tells her he's on her tail, not the other way around and he wants to convince her they have lots of things in common, deep inside; Harriet decides to capture him on his own and revenge her brother and all his victims but while she's at it, she's abducted by Vada, her colleague, who speaks to Regan over the phone revealing she's her accessory and she has murdered some of the victims; she was Regan's caretaker a while ago and she was convinced by his psychic delirious raves.
They catch Harriet and when she's in their hands Regan predictably kills Vada and tells Blue his terrible story of violence; he had killed both his parents, throwing them into a well and letting them die there.
At the last moment, Tox Barnes comes and hurts Regan, who manages to escape only to be caught by Whitt, another cop.
Regan dies; Harriet Blue is brought to prison and threatened by her inmates.

Hush Hush
We find Harriet in prison for the murder of Regan Banks; she's in deep trouble with her inmates when Joe Woods, cop, offers her a deal; her daughter Tonya has been abducted; he wants Harriet to find her; in return he will set her free.
Harriet accepts on condition to help Dolly Quidditch, a girl who has become her friend in prison whom she thinks is wrongly accused of the murder of a lawyer.
Blue investigates among gangs of bikers, loan sharks and ex convicted until she finds out that Dolly was actually innocent and incarcertates Anna Regent for the lawyer's murder.
At the same time she finds out another lawyer, Louis Mallaly is the guy who was behind the abduction of Tonya and Rebel, her baby; he had a relation with Tonya and, once dumped, wanted her dead.
Tonya is found dead but Rebel is finally rescued.

The Women's Murder Club

1st to Die
First to Die by James Patterson is the first novel in the Women's Murder Club series. Lindsay Boxer is a inspector with the San Francisco police department, a strongly male-oriented career in which she has excelled for six years. However a health crisis and a high profile case threaten to destroy all those years of hard work. Lindsay turns to her good friend, Claire, and new friend, Cindy, and forms the Women's Murder Club in order to not only garner support from other women who understand the struggle of working in a male-oriented job but to help her solve this difficult murder case. Along the way, the club will also include Jill, a highly-ambitious assistant district attorney, and Chris Raleigh, Lindsay's new partner and new lover. First to Die is another exciting crime novel by bestselling author James Patterson that will more than live up to his fan's expectations.

Lindsay Boxer learns that she has a rare form of anemia called Negli's. This diagnosis is potentially fatal, leaving Lindsay emotionally vulnerable when she arrives on the scene of a double murder at a local luxury hotel. The couple had just gotten married and the female victim is still in her wedding dress. Both victims were stabbed, a brutal crime that seems like an assault on hope that Lindsay cannot handle so soon on the heels of her diagnosis. Lindsay is so emotionally touched by the scene that she nearly confides in an ambitious reporter, Cindy Thomas, when they run into one another in the ladies room.

Immediately after the beginning to investigate the bride and groom case, Lindsay is informed she will be working with a new partner, Chris Raleigh, a cop who has been working in the mayor's office for the past few years to mediate with the press in high profile cases. Lindsay is demoted from lead on the case to second and resents Raleigh's presence. However, as they work together, Lindsay learns that Raleigh is a good cop whose main concern is to find the killer. Together they begin searching for motives among the couples' friends and family, researching everything, including the father of the groom's business dealings.

As Lindsay begins treatments for Negli's, another murder takes place. Lindsay and Raleigh go to Napa Valley where the second couple was married and were staying in a local hotel before flying to Cancun for their honeymoon. As Lindsay and Raleigh discuss the case with a local cop, Cindy Thomas arrives. Lindsay agrees to drive home with Cindy if she will promise to keep any information Lindsay gives her secret until Lindsay gives her the okay. Lindsay discovers during this ride that she and Cindy have so much in common that Lindsey invites Cindy to meet Claire, another friend of Lindsay's. Over drinks, the ladies realize they all have an interest in the bride and groom case—Claire in her capacity as coroner, Cindy as a reporter, and Lindsay as the detective on the case. They decide to pool their knowledge and work the case together, forming the Women's Murder Club.

The next day, Lindsay and Raleigh return to Napa where they see the place where the bodies were found, an abandoned vineyard. Claire drives up to speak to the coroner and view the bodies. Claire and Lindsay drive back to San Francisco and Lindsay tells Claire about her devastating medical condition. Claire is distraught but understands Lindsay's need to continue to focus on the case.

Lindsay and Raleigh begin to search for a connection between the two couples while continuing to follow up on evidence found in both cases. Nothing seems to connect until Lindsay realizes that both brides got their dresses at the same Saks store in San Francisco. An interview with the clerk there garners a sketch of the suspect. This brings in another witness who spoke to a similarly-appearing man at the Brandt wedding. It seems the case is beginning to break when another bride and groom are found murdered.

Lindsay and Raleigh fly to Cleveland where they learn that Kathy and James Voskuhl were murdered during their reception at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The security tapes reveal a partial view of the suspected killer. Interviews with the bride's family and friends also reveal that Kathy was having an ongoing relationship with an abusive man whom she claimed was famous. This man turns out to be Nicholas Jenks, a famous writer residing in San Francisco. Jenks becomes the main suspect in the case. However, his fame causes Lindsay and Raleigh to be forced to move cautiously.

Lindsay and Raleigh visit with the district attorney's office in the hopes of getting a search warrant for Jenks' house, but they are turned down. However, this meeting inspires Lindsay to invite Jill Bernhardt to join the Women's Murder Club. At the same time, Lindsay begins a passionate affair with Raleigh despite the fact that her treatments for Negli's do not appear to be successful. During this time as well, Lindsay interviews Jenks' ex-wife and learns about a book - *Always A Bridesmaid* -  he wrote early in his career that parallels the bride and groom murders. This gives Lindsay the break she needs to arrest Jenks. After the arrest, the police find evidence in Jenks' house that appears to conclusively point to him as the killer.

After Jenks is arrested he claims he has been set up. The more Lindsay thinks about it, the more she thinks he is right. Lindsay begins to suspect Joanna Wade, Jenks' ex-wife, to be the killer. When Jenks escapes police custody, Lindsay goes to Joanna's house to search for Jenks but finds her dead. Raleigh follows someone who was seen leaving Joanna's building dressed like Jenks. When Lindsay catches up to Raleigh, she discovers he has been shot. At the same time, Lindsay comes across Jenks and his current wife arguing. When the wife attempts to shoot Jenks, Lindsay shoots her. Lindsay returns to Raleigh just as he dies.

After Raleigh's death, Lindsay falls into a depression despite the fact that her Negli's has responded to treatment and she will live. One day after everything has died down, Jenks breaks in on Lindsay and admits that he was behind the killings all along. Jenks tries to kill Lindsay, but she manages to kill him first.

The murder of the second couple who were having sex in a taxi.
Joanna undressing off her husband's clothes.

2nd Chance
Homicide Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer is still recovering from the recent loss of her partner and is just returning to the force when she is called in to investigate a series of murders that include an 11-year-old girl and an elderly woman. Through her investigations she discovers a connection to a jail-hate gang called Chimera. After another police officer is killed by a sniper and then her boss is murdered, the trail leads to the ex-cop Frank Coombs.
To further complicate all of the Women's Murder Club ladies, Jill is pregnant and Claire becomes a target for the Chimera killer.
Cindy starts dating the murdered girl's pastor, Aaron Winslow, and Lindsay's father shows up, pretending he misses her daughter, but actually following Chimera, too, as he was present the day the killer slaughtered a young girl.

Finally, after chasing the trail of Frank Coombs, Lindsay trails the real killer, Rusty Coombs - the son of Frank Coombs - to a tower on a college campus where he has opened fire and killed several students. Rusty is getting revenge for what has happened to his father and no longer cares if he lives or dies. Lindsay kills Rusty at the college tower.

As an epilogue, Lindsay receives a postcard from her father in Mexico saying sorry for lying to her about his crooked past and telling her he has bought a boat and named it Buttercup, his pet name for her.

3rd Degree
Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer.follows a serial homicide investigation.
Boxer and her friend Jill Bernhardt, who works for the District Attorney, jog through the park. Together with Claire, the medical examiner, and Cindy, a reporter, the women make up the *Women's Murder Club*.
Boxer witnesses an explosion that turns out to be an assassination on the owner of a major corporation with questionable business practices. Soon, other benefactors of American capitalism begin to die.
Boxer works with Joe Molinari, from Homeland Security, to uncover a plot led by radicals whose sign is *August Spies* who aim to derail capitalism worldwide,
The motivation for the killings stems from a decade's old case in which federal agents killed the brother of a Charles Danko, a radical extremist.
Danko has waited decades to pull of his catastrophic payback. His final target involves a bomb and assassination at the G-8 summit.
Molinari and Boxer travel up and down the west coast to uncover leads, eventually learning that Danko now teaches in Washington under another name. Boxer takes down Danko at the G-8 summit, and prevents the bomb from exploding.
However, another "soldier" of Danko's *August Spies* group - a girl - succeeds in shooting the Vice president of the United States. Once taken into custody, she reveals Danko's whole plot. The vice president recovers, but Danko does not.

One subplot within the book involves Jill, who finally confesses her husband's pattern of abuse to Boxer and the other women. Jill comes through on a promise to her friends to kick him out, and the women congratulate Jill.
Jill, however, becomes Danko's next victim, because her father helped to prosecute Danko's brother's fellow protesters.
Another subplot involves Boxer and Molinari. Romance quickly blossoms between the two agents. They spend one evening in bed together. In the end, though, Boxer almost lets Molinari leave without being honest about her feelings. In the final chapters of the novel, Boxer calls Molinari's jet back from the runway and asks him to consider a long-term relationship with her.

Mimi poisoning George
Rick beating Jill & Jill leaving him ouy

4th Of July
When Lindsay Boxer gets a lead on a recent murder of two teenagers, she responds to the call and joins Warren Jacobi on a stakeout of a Mercedes. When the car takes off, a high speed chase ends in a crash. The officers discover two teenagers in their father’s car, who are scared and have been hurt. They help them out, but the teens pull guns and both officers are shot. After being hit in the shoulder and thigh, and seeing Jacobi shot twice, Boxer returns fire. The girl is killed, and the boy is paralyzed for life. As Boxer and Jacobi are recovering in the hospital, they are told that everything is legally good, that it was a case of self-defense.
Then, Boxer receives a notice she is being sued by the teenagers' father for wrongful death. Taking a vacation before the trial starts, Boxer housesits for her sister in Half Moon Bay. While there she reads about recent murders in which the victims’ throats were cut and they were whipped. This resembles an unsolved case from before, so Boxer begins to investigate informally. After a few days, the Half Moon Bay police chief tells her to mind her own business, but reconsiders when the next bodies are found. Boxer meets with her friends to try to determine a link between victims as her trial date approaches.

Boxer is found not guilty, and instead of returning to work right away, goes back to Half Moon Bay, determined to solve the recent murders. She is only there a day when the killers leave her a message by shooting up the house. She gets out and follows more clues, discovering that pornography bas the common denominator; all striken families had been victims or producers of porno videos; then finally catches up with a guy who has been following her, a Keith Howard, who had sold her a car and who she liked a lot until then.
He is arrested and provoked about his incapability of being a cruel criminal, he can't resist and confesses to the killings. It is not until Alison Brown, her friend’s daughter, shows up at her house that Boxer catches the other two killers, the very same Carolee Brown and Bob Hinton, a local lawyer. They are part of a vigilante group of former sex victims who take the law into their own hands, playing the role of *The Seeker, The Watcher, and The Truth*. After they are all arrested, Boxer returns to San Francisco a double hero, for winning the trial and solving the murders.

Lindsay buys and old car from Keith Howards *Brad Pitt*
Dennis Agnew in the bar
The trial Lindsay vs. the Cabot kids

5th Horseman
Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer is the main character in The 5th Horseman by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.
This book is the fifth in a series written on the Women's Murder Club.
Lindsay is in her mid-thirties, slender with blonde hair. She works in homicide at the San Francisco Police Department. Lindsay is also a founding member of the Women's Murder Club along with ME Claire Washburn, reporter Cindy Thomas and attorney Yuki Castellano. Lindsay is involved in a long distance relationship with Joe Molinari, Deputy Director of Homeland Security. Lindsay lives with a rescued border collie named Martha. Lindsay's best friend is Claire, to whom she refers as "Butterfly."
Having been recently promoted to Lieutenant, Lindsay is often confused and unhappy with her role as supervisor. She prefers to be on the streets. Lindsay often works the streets with her former partner Warren Jacobi and his partner, Rich Conklin. Lindsay is a tireless worker who takes her work to heart and will keep on going to the point of collapse.

The story begins with a mysterious character named the Night Walker who kills a Hospital patient, Jessie Falk.
Two plots are intertwined; the first is about a serial killer murdering young girls and posing them into luxury cars; Lindsay Boxer and her team call them *Car Girls*.
The second deals with the murders that take place at San Francisco Municipal Hospital.
Patient whose diagnoses are not putting their lives in danger die continuously; and 2 buttons are placed on their eyes, once dead.
One of those victims is Keiko Castellano, Yuki's mother. Yuki enlists the aid of her friends to find out the real reason her mother has died.

Lindsay is called to the scene of the murders involving young women who have been murdered and then posed in expensive cars seemingly chosen at random. Each woman has been dressed in very expensive clothing from Nordstrom's. The case is puzzling until it is learned that the clothes are the link - one of the killers is an employee at Nordstrom's and has stolen the clothes to dress his dead models.
Lindsay captures the killers, who are a Kenneth Guthrie and Louise Bennet (a prostitute called Cherrie), and watches helplessly as Louise jumps out of a window.

Tied into the strange murders at Municipal Hospital is a court case against Municipal which involves a malpractice suit filed on behalf of twenty plaintiffs whose family members died at the hospital due to medication errors or perhaps outright murders. The ER doctor, Dennis Garza, working in conjunction with the prosecutor, flubs his testimony so that the hospital loses. The doctor and the prosecutor - Maureen O'Mara, who are lovers, will split the $18 million reward she will receive for the victory.
However, the getaway plan is foiled when an outraged father of a dead patient confronts Garza. Garza kills the man and then attempts to get away, only to be stopped by Lindsay.
The Night Walker - the murderer of Keiko and other patients - is uncovered to be a crazy nurse, Marie Saint-Germaine and is caught after her last attempt to murder another patient, who was an undercover agent posing as a patient.

the hospital manager: you are in charge!
the way they capture Marie Saint-Germaine in the end

6th Target
Lindsay Boxer has to solve three separate mysteries in this novel.

On a ferry, a madman named Alfred Brinkley shoots people and hurts Claire Washburn, LA's ME and Boxer's friend. Ike Quintana, an addict, voluntary points the police to Alfred Brinkley, a madman who hears voices in his head; while Boxer is wondering how to contact him, he spontaneosly turns himself to Lindsay herself, going to her house! She arrests him and puts him on trial.
Brinkley is defended by Mickey Sherman, an excellent lawyer who has to fight the People, represented by Yuki Castellano, together with Lindsay and Claire one of the member of the Women's Murder Club.
Sherman convinces the jury Brinkley's legally insane and so he's judged not guilty and simply interned into a criminal asylum.
Some days after the verdict, though, Brinkley kills his warden and escapes.
He goes to meet her mother, who reminds of having killing his sister when he was a boy; Brinkley gets violent again and tries to kill her at the very same time when Boxer catches him and finally manages to convict me; only to hear Brinkley still threatening her while moved to prison.

A parallel plot deals with a band of pedophiles, led by Paul Renfree, a man who was molested when a boy and now, with the help of his wife, kidnaps young guys with the intent of selling them to the child trafficking mafia; when he tries to kill Madison Tyler, SFPD tails him until they get their identity and manage to stop him and his accessories.

Do you know this man? I am him!
Do you really think you got me?

7th Heaven
Lindsay is confronted - as frequently happens in these series - by 2 cases.

We meet 2 thugs called Pidge and Hawk whose idea of fun is burning people alive.
They kill three couples until they try the big one in the house of a senator, Campion, whose son has recently disappeared.
Campion reacts, though, and kills Hawk. Pidge flees but after some search led by Boxer and her team, they find a lead in the college they attended together with the kids of the victims; they were some sort of geniuses who wanted to try the perfect murder without being caught and for no reason, being inspired by similar gory stories collected in a novel, *The 7th Heaven*, full of latin quotations they actually left behind them in the murder scenes.
After a final confrontation at his house, Pidge, too, is captured and incarcerated.

The parallel story concerns the same Michael Campion, son of a famous politician, who was reported missing but now he's been said to have visited a prostitute - Junie Moon - right before his disappearance.
Junie Moon is interviewed by the Police and confesses Campion died in her arms and then, caught by panic, she had called her boyfriend and decided to slaughter him and throw him away in plastic bags.
Junie is taken to court and tried but found not guilty.
In the meantime, a creepy wannabe writer, Twilly, stalks Yuki Castellano, who had represented the People in the trial and tells her he knows who killed Campion and tries to kill Yuki, too; he's caught in the act, though, and he reveals he knew Campion left Junie Moon alive and he had asked her to make up the whole story in order to write a book.
The reader is left with no answer until the very end, where we discover Junie Moon had contrived the whole thing; Michael's alive, he had actually been at Junie's that night as so many more as they were lovers and now, with everybody believing  he's dead, they reunite and fly towards a new life together!

8th Confession
Lindsay and her Women's Murder Club are in this book busy with three cases at the same time!

Stacey Glenn, a dropout girl from the high society has killed many people and she's undergoing a trial in which she has many cards to play; Yuki Castellano - the lawyer of the Murder Club - manages to convict her in the end, but only to find that Glenn, once secluded, is brutally killed - beheaded! - in prison.

The two major plots develop around 2 cases: a homeless bum who goes by the name of Bagman Jesus is beaten to death and then targeted with multiple shots; Linsday and her mates investigate the case but they initially find a wall of silence defending him; many people living in the slums where he lived seem to consider him a sort of a saint.
Boxer's team finally gives Bagman Jesus an identity; he is Rodney Brooker, a meth dealer who provoked a terrible explosion with a school  bus he used as a drug laboratory; he was not loved by the people who knew him but on the contrary he was feared and hated; he had been actually killed by his mates; who also planned to put the blame one on the other in order to make all confessions void and impossible to be used in a courtoom.

Then there's a girl, whom the reader comes to meet as *Pet Girl*, who kills rich people without leaving any trace behind; the corpses seem immaculate and intact. She kills some couples until Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin manage to trace her while she's trying another murder; her victims were killed with poison from lethal snakes; one of them bites Rich; but he manages to survive and Pet Girl is arrested.
In the end, she's revealed to be Norma Johnson, daughter of a man who had taught her how to manage dangerous snakes but wanted to throw her out of his house since she was hated by his lover; Pet Girl-Norma had killed him and from then on she had become a serial killer out of revenge.

 

9th Judgement
SFPD sergeant Lindsay Boxer and her squad are tracking down a man who approaches young mothers in shopping center parking garages and kills them and their infant children leaving behind a macabre writing spelling *WCF* with the blood of the victims.
Later we'll know that means *Women Children First*; the team calls him the *Lipstick Killer* and will finally discover he goes by the name of Pete Gordon.
This happens several times and causes widespread panic. The man then makes contact and demands a $2 million ransom in exchange for stopping the killing. He strikes at such random places and times that, despite Boxer's protests, the police decide to pay the ransom.

Boxer is selected to deliver the ransom and has the man guide her via cellphone. After forcing Boxer to strip to her panties to prove she is not wearing a wire, the man has her drive throughout San Francisco. The trek culminates on the Golden Gate Bridge where Boxer drops the suitcase with the ransom in it to a boat waiting below. The Coast Guard is able to apprehend the man in the boat, who turns out to be uninvolved in the killings—he had been told his picking up the suitcase was for a movie.

Upset at having not gotten his ransom, the man kills another mother and child. While at that crime scene, however, he was noticed by the owner of a store on Fisherman's Wharf. The owner recognized him as having bought a prepaid cellphone from his store earlier and gives Boxer and her team the surveillance tape from his store. From the tape, Boxer and her team identify the man and begin tracking him down.

Before they can find him, however, the man strikes again. However, the woman he chose was armed with a 22 caliber pistol—carried in response to the general panic caused by the shootings. She shoots the man and he dies just as Boxer and her team arrive.

In the plot's secondary case, a notorious female cat burglar dubbed 'Hello Kitty' breaks into the home of an aging movie star, Marcus Dowling and his wife Casey, whilst they are eating dinner; Casey happened to be law school classmates with Boxer's friend Yuki Castellano. The star and his wife come upstairs unexpectedly and the burglar is forced to wait in the closet until they fall asleep before she can escape. She waits, but in the process of escaping, knocks over a table. Marcus Dowling pulls out a gun and searches for the intruder before coming up with the idea of shooting and killing his wife in the hope that he can blame it on the burglar, who escapes unnoticed before the killing occurs. Through their investigation, Boxer and her team discover that Marcus had a girlfriend and wanted out of his marriage and that murder was cheaper than divorce. When confronted with the evidence, he falsely claims that he shot his wife in self-defense after she attempted to shoot him.

It is also revealed that the cat burglar is Sarah Wells, a school teacher in an unhappy marriage. She is also in love with a female colleague - Heidi - and is only burglarizing in order to get enough money so that she and Heidi can escape to another country and start a new life together.

At the end, it is revealed that Heidi is also unhappily married to Pete Gordon, the man who was killing mothers and children whom Boxer was tracking.

10th Anniversary
Two-story plot again for Lindsay Boxer and her Women's Murder Club partners.

A girl is found bleeding in the middle of a road; hospitalized and cured, she's revealed to have been pregnant; her name's Avis Richardson and she's an ordinary college girl but she doesn't want to say what she was doing there, why she lost and her child and where it is now.
In the meanwhile, more cases like hers come to surface; investigations lead to the College these girls come from; and in the College Avis is said t have been dating one of her teachers, Jordan Ritter.
After some search, Lindsay Boxer finds out Ritter's actually the father of the kid, whom Avis sold to an undeground organization - Prattalist - which gives away unwanted children to couples wanting to adopting babies; the baby in a adoption to a couple whom in the end are allowed to keep the kid while Avis remains alone and Ritter is condemned in court.

The main plot revolves around the case of Candace Martin, a woman who's accused of having killed her husband in front of her 2 children.
Yuki Castellano, Boxer's friend and one of the member of the Women's Murder Club, represents the People against her in court.
In the course of the trial we discover Ellen Rafferty, maid in the Martins' house, was having an affair with Dennis Martin, the victim; she confesses Mr. Martin sent her to a hit man - Gregor Gutzman - requesting him to kill his wife; but when Gutzman is interrogated by the police, the truth is revealed; Candace Martin had actually killed her husband; but neither for his money nor out of jealousy, but because he repeatedly molested their daughter.

11th Hour
Noelle Smith, violinist, is giving a gig in front of her father, Chaz Smith, who's killed in the bathroom by a lone avenger, Revenge.
He used to be a cop, so the circle narrows down. But Chaz Smith is revealed to be a cop, too; and Revenge is finally captured by Lindsay Boxer and Rich Conklin; his real name is William Randall and he decided to take revenge on pushers in the name of his son, who was killed by drugs, without anyone paying for his premature death. 

The main plot concerns Janet Wolsley, a woman who finds severed heads in the garden of the mansion she keeps, Elssworth House. The heads are marked with numbers and the investigation starts from there; more heads are found in the garden and the Wolseys become suspected; but Nicole, their daughter, takes them on the trail of Connie Kerr, a former tennis player, who's now gone nuts but seems to know lots of things.
Connie Kerr reveals she has found and dug out many more heads in the garden; she intrudes Nicole Wolsey's house to interrogate her but Nicole tries to stab her; Janet comes out and says it was actually her!
It's finally discovered it was the 2 of them, in their thirst of revenge against Harry Chandler - Ellsworth's House's owner - who was Janet's lover but cheated on her with lots of lovers, who became the victims of their furious anger.

12th Of Never
Yuki Castellano's working a case against Keith Herman; his wife has been killed and all evidence points to him; his expert lawyer, though - John Kinslea, manages to put the court into reasonable doubts; it seems he has hired a killer to murder his wife but in the long run Keith is found out to be the actual culprit; the plan was Lynnette Lagrange's, her lover, who was supposed to eliminate competion and let the nurse be accused; but it was Keith who acutally killed his wife.

Another plot rolls around the stoy of Faye Farmer, a designer shot by Jeffrey Kennedy,a football player and the return of Randy Fish, a multiple murderer, who in the end is captured and dies.

This plot is intertwined with a third one concerning a weird character, Perry Judd, who has visions of people committing crimes which actually happen later!
He dreams of a couple of murders which punctually take place and eventually dreams of his own death in the Aquarium; and this happens, too.
Behind this deceiptvely metaphysical previsions, there's Mackie Morales, a woman who had killed all the women whose death Perry Judd had prophesized because she had listened to his confessions, having wired him.
The killer is furthermore united with Randy Fish, another killer on the loose who surfaces to threaten Lindsay Boxer, who finally manages to catch him; Boxer sees hime die in a final shooting. Mackie Morales is captured, too, but in the ending she escapes from jail and is on the loose again, ready for revenge!

Unlucky 13
People are killed while eating at a jung food's chain: Chuck's.
The owners are mobbed by a gang of criminals; Boxer and her team follow their tails and finally catch Walter Bremner, the man behind the plot the Women's Murder Club have named *belly bombs*, since they make people die inserting explosives in the food.

A parallel plot sees the return of Mackie Morales, the villain of *12th Of Never*; she makes a slaughter in a bank and Cindy, one of the Women's Club member, follows her and finds one of her victims with her fingers cut to the forst phalanxes; she raves about being still guided by Randy Fish, her former partner in crime, who's actually dead.
Mackie Morales, in a last desperate attempt, tries to kill Lindsay but Boxer herself manages to kill her, instead.
 

14th Deadly Sin
Three masked men dressed in Police clothes rob a bank and shoot people in a shop robbery.
Boxer, Rich and Brady investigate and discover they must be really cops.
Calhoun, a former cop, is brutally killed together with his family; Lindsay chases Swansson, another cop whom she suspects, but he's killed, too; another one, Robertson, kills himself.
Rich Conklin gets to capture Valdeen and Vazques, accessories, and then Whitney and Brand, too; they reveal Swansson was their chief - his battle name was *One* - but when the Windbreakers gang seems to be won, their chief, Kingfisher, calls Lindsay telling her he's still on the loose and he's going to revenge his gang.
This plot is intertwined with a parallel story; Yuki Castellano is called to defend the case of a young disabled guy, Aaroon-Ray Cordell, who was killed in prison where he had been put for having killed three drug dealers.
But Yuki, during the trial, produced the video of his confession, clearly forced, and reaches the conclusion that Cordell had been killed in prison by One, the boss of the Winbreakers gang.

Finally, Lindsay Boxer finds out a murder has been committed recently each and every Claire's birthday; they chase the various hints they have until the discover the killer to be Clement Hubbell, a weirdo who found pleasure in projecting murders and thinking of himself as a serial killer.

15th Affair
In a hotel room, an Asian guy - Michael Chan - welcomes Alison Muller, apparently his partner.
Some minutes later, Michael Chan is found killed in a room and so are two kids who were taping their meeting from a next room and the maid, too; Alison Muller is on the run, instead.
Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club are immediately on the move to catch the killer, but the story becomes more intricated than it seemed when Joe Molinari, Lindsay's husband, disappears too.
Some days later Michael's wife, Shirley, is found murdered in her house and in a plane crash caused by a terrorist attack Michael Chan is killed; how can it be the same person killed in the hotel?
Boxer follows the trails of Alison Muller motivated by the fact that she suspect the involvement of her own husband with her.
Alison Muller was actually a spy working for the CIA together with Joe Molinari; they had set a trap for Michael Chan at the hotel, as Chan was a Chinese spy; but at the last minute Alison decided to play a double game and so she recluted Dugan, the man who videotaped the kids, to kill them, kill the maid, too and then escape together with Alison, who had actually killed Chan; in the shooting that follows the discovery Dugan is killed and Muller is captured.
Some time later, Alison Muller is killed in prison by a guard, leaving the reader wondering who did it and why.

The Trial
Kingfisher resurfaces from the 14th Episode and he's captured by Lindsay and the LAPD after 3 killings in a bar; but while in prison, two more innocent peopel are murdered and all evidence brigns to him; he's brought to court again where Elena, his girls, kills him with a bomb; in the ned Boxer lets her go since she has freed the town from a drug cartel

16th Seduction 
Detective Lindsay Boxer and her husband Joe Molinari witness the explosion of Sci-Tron, a science exhibition in San Francisco; Lindsay is stricken by the presence of a man standing still, observing the scene without apparently caring for people running, shouting and the many people who have just died inside the structure.
Lindsay Boxer asks him who he is and he quietly answers his name is Connor Grant and he's not shocked, but he's admiring a real work of art and that he's the very author of that work of art causing death and destruction.
Boxer immediately arrests him, only to find, hours later, that he denies everything, claiming he was simply in shock; Grant is brought to prison anyway and immediately submitted to trial.
To everybody's surprise, Connor Grant decides to be his own lawyer and, surprisingly, he defends himself very efficiently and the Court declares him not guilty.
Lindsay is not convinced at all and so she starts investigating on her own, remaing under the radar because of the pressure the media exercise on her after the failed trial.
Cary Woodhouse, husband of one of the victims of Sci-Tron explosion has never given up, too, and had followed Connor Grant's moves; in the end Connor Grant reveals himself to be actually the culprit of the terroristic attempt; he is a psychopath who had killed his own family who made him suffer sexual harassment and from then on he had assumed a false indentity, got a degree in law and had never stopped playing with fire, literally.
Cary Woodhouse manages to stop Grant just before he's blowing another place, this time the City Hall; he shoots the car where Connor Grant is in; but the car explodes killing the murdered and Cary, too.

The whole plot is intertwined with that of another psycopath, an Edward Lamborghini - Neddie Lambo - who has spent all his life in a psychiatric ward for having killed his young sister but managing to escape from time to time to kill people injecting them a substance provoking a sudden and fatal heart attack.
Neddie Lambo is caught, too, in the end, and killed while trying to make another victim.

Connor Grant at the bay telling he did it
Elise Antonelli telling the jury Grant will defend himself alone
The trial

The Medical Examiner
Joan Murphy is apparenty killed together with a guy but she's found alive in the morgue; she remembers nothing. Some days later two people are killed in a house and one of them is finally revelead to be the same killer of Joan's partner; he's her husband, Peter, a gay guy who was seeking revenge on his lover; he almost kills Cindy before being caught and Joan becomes one of the Club's friends.

17th Suspect
2 story novel for the Womens' Murder Club.
Lindsay is reported the killing of a vagrant by the daughter of the victim, Millie Cushing; in the long run more homeless are killed; but when Lindsay interviews her she realizes her son, Michale Dunn, was a guy she saw hiding in some pictures she took in the crime scenes; he actually was after Lindsay and he's the killer; when he is caught he tries to shoot Lindsay but he's arrested and convicted.
The main plot concerns an interesting case of a male rape; Marc Cristopher accuses Briana Hill of having obliged him to f*** her under the threat of a gun; the trial is long and difficult; Yuki Castellano, as time goes by, suspects more and more Marc has staged it, including a video of the intercourse they had and a fake shooting he asked one of his accolades, Paul Yates, to inflict him together with witnessing against Briana-
Marc had then blackmailed Briana asking her money in exchange of her silence and under the threat of diffusing the video; so it's the final prove there was na rape; Marc is condemned and the case dismissed.

18th Abduction
Three young girls disappear: Carly Myers, Adele Seran & Susan Jones.
Carly is found dead in a hotel room and the owner says she was known as *Cinnamon*; were they hookers?
Further search gets to Danny Lopez, a pimp, who is arrested but he's really reluctant to speak; soon after is questioned Danny is killed, though, and so Lindsay Bozer suspects something big behind it.
At the same time, Joe Molinari, Lindsay's husband, had met Anna Sotovina, a war refugee from Serbia who tells him she has recognized his torturer and genocider, Slobodan Petrovic, living free in San Francisco; Molinari discovers she's telling the truth: Petrovic is now known as Tony Branko and runs a restaurant; he uselessly tries to contact him but then Petrovic abducts Anna and takes him where Susan is kept; we come to know Adele was killed in a sadistic game of hide-and-seek and now Petrovic's thugs were plotting tghe same end for both Susan and Anna.
They catch an accessory, Marco Vladic, who gives him up and so they manage to catch Petrovic and arrest him; he seems to have immunity as he was working for the CIA but they nail him to the rape crimes and so he is sent to court; Susan and Anna are released.
Years later, an international process against Petrovic for crimes agains the humanity is held; but when he has to give his closing statement, Petrovic drinks cyanide!

19th Christmas
Lindsay Boxer stops a guy stealing in a mall; his name is Julian Lambert; he says there's a heist striking S.Francisco and he's just a pawn; he talks about a bigger name to get, a mr. Loman; he gives away another name, too, Marcus - a boss - and the latter is killed by Dick Russell, a thug working for Loman, who kills Lambert, too.
Behind the plan there's William Lomachenko, who planned to spread nerve gas at the Frisco airport!
With the help of Decker Bentley, a hacker, Boxer and Molinari manage to penetrate Lomachenko's plans and his system, called BlackStar; once he feels lost, he kills Russell but he's framed by a surveillance video showing all his murders.
In the epilogue, Joe Molinari meets Francesca, his daughter, and takes her to Lindsay and their daughter Jules.

20th Victim
The Women's Murder Club is engaged by three different stories:
The Taco King Shooting, only the start of a series of crimes perpetrated by Randi Barkley, wife of Leonard Barkley, ex-cop, who wants to kill addicts, pushers and small crooks.
The legal story of Clay Warren, convicted for the murder of officer Todd Morton; he's finally found not guilty by Yuki Castellano who catches the real culprit, Antonio Castro and, finally, the story of the murders of the Channnings, Dave and his father Ray, both know by Joe Molinari, Boxer's husband; Molinari discovers the killer is Carolee Atkins, astrayed and psychotic nurse.

21st Birthday
Cindy Thomas interviews a furious Kathleen Wyatt, who claims her son-in-law, Lucas Burke, killed her daughter Tara Wyatt, Lucas's wife and their baby, Lorrie.
The child is actually found dead and so Lucas's house is searched.
Not long after that, another body is found dead; the investigation widens to find that Lucas had a lover, Misty Fogerty, who's found dead as well as Tara Wyatt.
Lucas runs the interview and so he's pinned for the triple murder.
From here on the story occurs in the court, where Yuki Castellano tries to nail Lucas to his responsabilities while the defendant claims the real murderer is his father Evan, who's been a killer for a long time.
But his story doesn't hold, especially because his DNA is found on the knife used to kill a victim so the jury finds him guilty.
It's only when Lucas Burke committs suicide in his cell that the truth emerges.
Evan, his father, is caught on the scene while attempting to kill the investigators who tried the truth behind his weird past and so he confesses to all the murders, giving evidence of how he did that and how he made his son seem the guilty guy.
 

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