Women's Murder Club Box Set: Volume I comprises:

1st to Die:
In San Francisco newlyweds are being stalked and slaughtered. Enter four unforgettable women, all friends: Lindsay, a homicide inspector in the city's police department; Claire, a medical examiner; Jill, an assistant D.A.; and Cindy, a reporter who has just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. Joining forces, pooling their talents, courage, and brains, they have one goal: to find, trap, and outwit the most diabolical and terrifying killer ever imagined.

2nd Chance:
The Women's Murder Club reconvenes. This time, the murders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all the signs of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of San Francisco's homicide squad. But there's an odd detail she finds even more disturbing: both victims were related to city cops. A symbol glimpsed at both murder scenes leads to a racist hate group, but the taunting killer strikes again and again, leaving deliberate clues and eluding the police ever more cleverly. In the meantime, each of the women has a personal stake at risk - and the killer knows who they are.

3rd Degree:
Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. A town house owned by an Internet millionaire is immediately engulfed in flames, and when Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she finds three people dead. A mysterious message at the scene leaves Lindsay and the San Francisco Police Department completely baffled. Then a prominent businessman is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, with another mysterious message. Lindsay asks her friends to help her figure out who is committing these murders - and why they are intent on killing someone every three days. Even more terrifying, the killer has targeted one of the four friends who call themselves the Women's Murder Club.

The #1 bestselling new mystery series of the past decade comes roaring back with 3rd Degree, a shockingly suspenseful thriller featuring the Women's Murder Club.

One of James Patterson's best loved heroines is about to die. Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. A town house owned by an Internet millionaire is immediately engulfed in flames, and when Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she finds three people dead. An infant who lived in the house cannot be found - and a mysterious message at the scene leaves Lindsay and the San Francisco Police Department completely baffled.

Then a prominent businessman is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, with another mysterious message left behind by the killer. Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner's office, Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, and Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to help her figure out who is committing these murders-and why they are intent on killing someone every three days.

Even more terrifying, the killer has targeted one of the four friends who call themselves the Women's Murder Club.

Which one will it be?

While the investigation rages furiously, Lindsay works very closely with a federal officer assigned to the case. At the same time, she learns that one member of the Women's Murder Club is hiding a secret so dangerous and unbelievable that it could destroy them all.

 

After losing one of its own, Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever—one that could easily be their last. A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity.

While awaiting trial, Lindsay escapes to the beautiful town of Half Moon Bay, but the peaceful community there is reeling from a string of unspeakable murders. Working with her friends in the Women’s Murder Club, Lindsay finds a link between these killings and a case she worked on years before—an unsolved murder that has haunted her ever since. As summer comes into full swing, Lindsay battles for her life on two fronts: before a judge and jury as her trial comes to a climax, and facing unknown adversaries who will do anything to keep her from the truth about the killings-—including killing again. It all comes to a head before the big annual 4th of July celebration on the waterfront at Half Moon Bay. Patterson fine-tunes the tension like never before in this heart-racing new novel in the bestselling detective series to debut in years.

 

Read by Carolyn McCormick.

A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she suddenly struggles for breath. The hospital's doctors are mystified by her death. How did this happen?

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Then similar cases appear. Just as patients are about to be released, they become devastatingly sick. As Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club probe deeper into the incidents, they wonder if these cases are coincidences. Or is a maniac playing God? When someone close to the Club exhibits the same symptoms, Lindsay fears no one is safe.

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It is a race against time as Lindsay's investigation reveals a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle, the Women's Murder Club hunts for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff.

JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and bestselling writers in the world. He is the author of the two top-selling new detective series of the past decade: the Alex Cross novels, including Mary, Mary, London Bridges, Kiss the Girls, and Along Came a Spider, and the Women's Murder Club series, including 1st to Die, 2nd Chance, 3rd Degree, and 4th of July. He has written many other #1 bestsellers, including Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, Lifeguard, and the International Thriller of 2005, Honeymoon. He lives in Florida.

MAXINE PAETRO is a novelist and journalist. She lives with her husband in New York.

CAROLYN McCORMICK has appeared in the films A Simple Twist of Fate and Enemy Mine. She has appeared on television as Dr. Olivit on Law and Order for the past twelve years, and as a guest on The Practice and Star Trek. Her Broadway credits include roles in The Dinner Party and Private Lives. She read 4th of July by James Patterson for Time Warner AudioBooks.

A Terrifying Attacker

A horrifying burst of gunfire on a crowded ferry leaves several people dead - and one woman fighting for her life. That victim is a member of the Women's Murder Club, four friends who join forces on their toughest cases when traditional methods get them nowhere. Inspector Lindsay Boxer pursues one tantalizing lead after another in her attempt to bring in the man who tried to kill her friend. But nothing makes sense in the most twisted, frightening case the Women's Murder Club has ever faced.

Children Are Vanishing

While Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano prepares to prosecute the toughest trial of her life, the city is in the grip of a chilling crime spree. Children of well-to-do families are being abducted, together with their nannies. But the kidnappings are followed by devestating silence - no message from the kidnappers, no demand for ransom. Parents everywhere fear the worst. Working frantically with her new partner Lindsay Boxer struggles to find the connection that will help them make sense of these horrific crimes.

Two cases have pushed San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer beyond her limits. In the first, a terrible fire in a wealthy home has left a married couple dead and Lindsay and her partner, Rich Conklin, searching for clues. At the same time, Michael Campion, the son of California's exgovernor with a reputation for partying, has been missing for a month. When there finally seems to be a lead in his case, it is a devastating one. And the combined pressure from the press and the brass is overwhelming.

Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano plunges into the biggest case of her life to get to the bottom of Michael Campion's disappearance. As fire after fire consumes couples in expensive neighborhoods, Lindsay and her friends in the Women's Murder Club race to find the arsonists responsible. But suddenly the fires are raging too close to home. Frightened for her life and torn between two men, Lindsay confronts the most daunting dilemmas she's ever faced—in a thriller with unexpected twists and emotional extremes of the kind only James Patterson—"the man who can't miss" (Time)—can deliver.

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