Product Description

As the only woman homicide inspector in San Francisco, Lindsay Boxer has to be tough. But nothing she has seen prepares her for the horror of the honeymoon murders, when a brutal maniac begins viciously slaughtering newlywed couples on their wedding nights. Lindsay is sickened by the deaths, but her determination to bring the murderer to justice is threatened by her own personal tragedy. So she turns to Claire, a leading coroner, Cindy, a journalist and Jill, a top attorney, for help with both her crises, and the Women's Murder Club is born.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #523105 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.75" h x 1.25" w x 4.13" l, .52 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 488 pages

Amazon.co.uk 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
"1 'James Patterson does everything but stick our finger in a light socket' New York Times 2 'Ticks like a time-bomb - full of threat and terror' Los Angeles Times 3 'Patterson dedicates his latest to 'the millions of Alex Cross readers who frequently ask, 'Can't you write faster?" Those readers won't be disappointed.' Publishers Weekly

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