À San Francisco, trois enseignantes disparaissent après un dîner. Le sergent Lindsay Boxer, sous pression médiatique, enquête avec le Women's murder club sur le cadavre retrouvé dans un hôtel. Parallèlement, son mari Joe découvre qu'un criminel de guerre serbe se cache en ville grâce à une Bosniaque.
À l’hôpital municipal de San Francisco, les décès se succèdent de façon suspecte. Des malades sont soudain retrouvés morts alors que rien ne laissait prévoir une fin aussi brutale. Les parents des victimes mettent en cause l’établissement hospitalier. Pendant le procès, la mère d’une des membres du Women Murder Club succombe à son tour. Lindsay Baker, qui est pourtant sur une autre enquête assez compliquée – de jeunes prostituées sont assassinées et leurs corps abandonnés dans des voitures de luxe –, va s’intéresser à ces étranges disparitions. Tout en menant les deux affaires de front, Lindsay, aidée par ses amies – Claire, la légiste, Yuki, l’avocate, et Cindy, la journaliste –, finira après une série de coups de théâtre stupéfiants, par découvrir la vérité…
Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals - but that the victim may be keeping secrets.
A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy, Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case--a very devastating lead. As fire after fire consume couples in wealthy, comfortable homes, Lindsay and the Murder Club must race to find the arsonists responsible and get to the bottom of Michael Campion's disappearance. But suddenly the fires are raging too close to home. Frightened for her life and torn between two men, Lindsay must find a way to solve the most daunting dilemmas she's ever faced--at work and at home.
The bestselling 11th novel in the Women's Murder Club series A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING When a weapon stolen from her department's evidence locker is used in a series of vigilante murders, Detective Lindsay Boxer must confront the unthinkable.
Detective Lindsay Boxer chases an elusive suspect...her husband. As she settles into motherhood and a happy marriage, Lindsay Boxer thinks she has found domestic bliss. But when a beautiful, alluring blonde woman with links to the CIA disappears from the scene of a brutal murder at a downtown luxury hotel, Lindsay's life begins to unravel. Before she can track down the woman for questioning, a plane crash plunges San Francisco into chaos and Lindsay's husband Joe vanishes. The deeper she digs, the more Lindsay suspects that Joe shares a secret past with the mystery blonde. Thrown into a tailspin and questioning everything she thought she knew, Lindsay turns to the Women's Murder Club for help as she tries to uncover the truth. Filled with pulse-pounding international intrigue, 15TH AFFAIR proves that all is fair in love, war, and espionage.
Dans "Im Visier des Amokschützen", le "Women's Murder Club" fait face à une terreur grandissante à San Francisco, où des enfants de familles riches disparaissent avec leurs nourrices. Le silence est assourdissant, laissant parents et autorités dans l'angoisse de savoir qui sera la prochaine victime.
Charged with police brutality after a routine arrest goes wrong, lieutenant Lindsay Boxer waits for her trial in the town of Half Moon Bay, where she discovers a link between a string of murders and a case she worked on years earlier
As San Francisco's most glamorous millionaires mingle at the party of the year, someone is watching--waiting for a chance to take vengeance on Isa and Ethan Bailey, the city's most celebrated couple. Finally, the killer pinpoints the ideal moment, and it's the perfect murder. Not a trace of evidence is left behind in their glamorous home. As Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile murder, someone else is found brutally executed--a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless. His death nearly falls through the cracks, but when reporter Cindy Thomas hears about it, she knows the story could be huge. Probing deeper into the victim's history, she discovers he may not have been quite as saintly as everyone thought. As the hunt for two criminals tests the limits of the Women's Murder Club, Lindsay sees sparks fly between Cindy and her partner, Detective Rich Conklin. The Women's Murder Club now faces its toughest challenge: will love destroy all that four friends have built? The exhilarating new chapter in the Women's Murder Club series, The 8th Confession serves up a double dose of speed-charged twists and shocking revelations as only James Patterson can.
With San Francisco under siege and every cop a suspect, the Women's Murder Club must risk their lives to save the city-and each other. With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer can safely say that her life has never been better. Things seem to be going well for a change when all the members of the Women's Murder Club gather to celebrate San Francisco Medical Examiner Claire Washburn's birthday. But the party is cut short when Lindsay is called to a gruesome crime scene, where a woman has been murdered in broad daylight. As Lindsay investigates, shocking video footage of another crime surfaces: the video is so horrific that it shakes the city to its core. Their faces obscured by masks, the cold blooded criminals on the tape could be anyone-and now all of Lindsay's co-workers are suspects. As a rash of violence sweeps through San Francisco, and public fear and anger grows, Lindsay and her friends must risk their lives in the name of justice, before it's too late. With shocking twists and riveting suspense, 14th Deadly Sin proves yet again that when it comes to suspense fiction, "nobody does it better" than James Patterson (Jeffrey Deaver).
