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  Short Summary James Patterson and Maxine Paetro have developed a partnership rarely seen in the literary world, having penned over two dozen books together in their Women's Murder Club Thriller series, and still going strong. In the fifteenth entry, titled 15th Affair , we follow Lindsay Boxer as she searches for her missing husband while also trying to uncover the truth behind his ties to a mysterious blonde woman who disappeared from a brutal murder scene.

  Short Summary James Patterson and Maxine Paetro are parents to one of the more recognizable and celebrated detective series with the Women's Murder Club, being over twenty books in and showing no intention of stopping. In the fourteenth installment, titled 14th Deadly Sin , they send Lindsay Boxer and the rest of the club chasing after a pair of maniacs holding San Francisco hostage through their sheer brutality. What's worse, none are above suspicion, not even the police themselves.

  Short Summary James Patterson and Maxine Paetro have managed to develop a partnership few authors would even consider, having written over twenty books together, and still counting. Their Women's Murder Club Thriller series has earned them plenty of accolades, and in the thirteenth entry, titled Unlucky 13 , they send their protagonists on a chase after a psychotic killer with nothing to lose intent on stalking them.

  Short Summary James Patterson and Maxine Paetro have made an excellent writing pair, enduring the test of time with the Women's Murder Club series, and still going strong to this day. Few have managed to produce with their consistency, and in the twelfth book of the series, titled 12th of Never , we are thrust into yet another thrilling affair as Lindsay Boxer is tasked with solving two murders. One involves a start football player, and the other, much more intricate, was seemingly predicted by a professor's vivid nightmares.

  Short Summary James Patterson and Maxine Paetro have established a partnership rarely seen in the realms of literature, having penned together over twenty books in the long-standing Women's Murder Club series. In the eleventh entry, titled 11th Hour , we see Lindsay Boxer and her crew try to solve the mystery of seven buried skulls in a famous actor's garden, all while trying to apprehend a criminal seemingly hell-bent on targeting high-time drug dealers, a streak broken when his weapon was found at the murder scene of a millionaire.

  Short Summary James Patterson and Maxine Paetro have really created something unique and noticeable with the Women's Murder Club series, and in the tenth book, titled 10th Anniversary , we see Lindsay and Yuki clashing against one another.  While the former investigates the case of a kidnapped newborn, she comes across evidence which could exonerate the suspect in the latter's case, a woman accused of having murdered her husband in front of her two young children.

  James Patterson and Maxine Paetro have put the Women's Murder Club through many ordeals, but the one they're facing in The 9th Judgment might just tear them apart. Tracking down two killers – a thief whose plans turned for the worse, and the perpetrator of a heinous shooting – Lindsay Boxer calls upon her club to help her solve cryptic cases lacking in evidence, but it seems someone on the inside is leaking information to the press.

  James Patterson and Maxine Paetro never seem to run short on ways to test the Women's Murder Club, and in The 8th Confession , they're subjected it to the trials of love sending the ladies after two separate killers. The first one is targeting the wealthiest people in the city, while the second one has murdered a street preacher who might not be nearly as saintly as everyone around him expected.

  James Patterson and Maxine Paetro have shown their immense talents in always finding new and riveting mysteries to send Lindsay Boxer on, and in book seven of the Women's Murder Club, titled 7th Heaven , they send her on the trail of a pair of arsonists. Unfortunately for wealthy couples, the arsonists have no regard for the sanctity of life, targeting them one after the other seemingly at random.

  James Patterson and Maxine Paetro have really claimed the Women's Murder Club as their collective effort over time, and they were never afraid to experiment with the story, as they did in The 6th Target .  In it, we follow three different plots: the shooting of Claire and the subsequent courtroom drama, a series of assaults and kidnappings in Cindy's apartment building, and a kidnapping investigated by Lindsay Boxer.

James Patterson and Maxine Paetro have, over the course of many novels, become the faces of the Women's Murder Club series, a partnership which began over a decade ago.  The 5th Horseman is the second book co-authored by the two writers, and in it we follow Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer's investigation into a mysterious string of patient deaths at a hospital with more than a few things to hide, as well as two other killers leaving their mark in the area.

James Patterson began the Women's Murder Club with relatively small ambitions, but with time it turned into one of his most recognizable works. In the fourth book co-authored with Maxine Paetro, titled 4th of July , we follow Lindsay Boxer as she is forced to fight for her innocence at her own trial, all while chasing after a serial killer who has been terrorizing a small picturesque town.

James Patterson and Andrew Gross have proven the value of their partnership with their highly successful Women's Murder Club Series, and the third book, titled 3rd Degree , serves up an unexpected twist on a silver platter.  As the members of the afore-mentioned club investigate a terrorist group with an unknown agenda following a recent attack, one of the women sees death lurking at her threshold.

James Patterson and Andrew Gross are without doubt two of the best and most prominent murder mystery writers, and for everyone's pleasure they decided to collaborate on 2nd Chance , the second entry into the Women's Murder Club series.  The story follows an investigation centred around a curious public shooting outside a San Francisco church, where miraculously only a single specific victim was killed.

James Patterson might conceivably be one of, if not the most prolific author of thriller literature in the modern era. The Women's Murder Club is one of the many series he has running, and the title which kicked it off, 1st to Die , takes us to a San Francisco shocked and reeling from the recent crimes of a serial killer. In the midst of widespread fear and panic, four crime-solving friends bond together to find the culprit, each one holding part of the key to the solution.