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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 Mark Sullivan have become an inseparable duo in the realm of thrillers a while ago, most notably with the Private series. One of the more prominent works is the fifth book, Private Berlin , and it follows the investigation into a slaughterhouse which holds many dark secrets from the East German days, a slaughterhouse where one of Private's agents is found murdered.

  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.

Hannah Tinti took little time to establish herself as an author with some original tales to set on paper, and she continues her award-winning run with The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley . The novel follows the titular Samuel as he spends years on the run trying to raise his daughter Loo. With Loo being a teenager and yearning for a normal life now, Samuel decides to settle down as a fisherman, but the demons from his past are never too far behind, as his twelve bullet scars constantly remind him.

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child combine forces once again to create City of Endless Night . In this investigative mystery we embark on a hunt for a serial killer whose first strike was directed at the reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire. Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta is on the case, but little does he suspect, this is the one case which will push him over the edge and have him face a foe with much more profound motivations than he could suspect.

David Pedreira begins his foray into the realm of literature with great aspirations, unravelling the webs of treachery behind the first murder of a man in outer space in his first novel, Gunpowder Moon . We are taken to visit a future where Earth's survival depends on lunar helium, one where the chief of U.S. mining operations finds himself racing against the clock when one of his workers is killed by a bomb. Whether on Earth or beyond the skies, the evil men do thrives onwards.

John Connolly never ceases to deliver thrills and chills in his wide range of mysteries and detective stories, returning to helm his ship the best way he knows with his new novel The Woman in the Woods . The sixteenth book in the Charlie Parker series, it follows the private investigator as he is hired to shadow a police investigation into the recently-discovered, half-preserved body of a woman in the woods, bearing all signs of having given birth shortly before her demise. Though the child doesn't know it, all sorts of parties are out looking for him... even a dead woman.

Cynthia Swanson has always had an amazing superpower as a writer: the capacity to delve profoundly into the minds of her extremely complex characters and base the story around their unravelling. In The Glass Forest we are treated to this sort of scenario as we follow a recently-married couple, Paul and Angie, who find themselves having to take care of the husband's seventeen-year-old enigmatic niece after her father commits suicide and her mother vanishes. As the trio isolate themselves in a modern house on the edge of the woods some uncomfortable secrets begin floating to the surface, forcing Angie to question much of her own existence.

Brad Taylor has delivered excitement in spades time and time again with his spy thrillers, and in Operator Down he returns to the fore, once again thrusting the former special forces officer Logan Pike into the heart of mayhem. In his search for a Mossad agent, Pike stumbles into something much more sinister involving nuclear weapon sales and a giant conspiracy to topple a democratic African country.

James Lee Burke has done a great service to the world of literature when he gave birth to the Dave Robicheaux series, the scarred and damaged investigator trying to stay afloat amidst a sea of demons, personal and otherwise. In Robicheaux , the titular character returns to the gritty backwoods of Louisiana to investigate a murder involving the man who killed Dave's wife.