Young women are going missing in San Francisco, and the body of a Jane Doe has washed ashore. James Patterson's twenty-sixth Women's Murder Club thriller puts Lindsay Boxer on the cases.
Readical Key Points
- Book 26 of the Women's Murder Club series, with Sgt. Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn and reporter Cindy Thomas
- An instant New York Times bestseller, according to the publisher
- Content note: violence against young women and strong language
- Hardcover, 352 pages, Little, Brown and Company, 2026
After a prologue, the first chapter opens on a celebration for Claire Washburn, honored as medical examiner of the year, until a stranger arrives looking for Cindy Thomas: his seventeen-year-old daughter vanished three months ago, and he wants a reporter on it. Lindsay is already working the Jane Doe's death and that of a young woman whose body turned up in Golden Gate Park, and the Club starts to wonder whether all of it connects.
Longtime readers of the series will find the four friends and their husbands in the background of the investigation. It also suits readers of police procedurals and crime thrillers set in San Francisco. Patterson sets the case in motion at a party thrown for one of the Club's own.
About the Author
James Patterson created the Women's Murder Club, Alex Cross and Maximum Ride series. According to his publisher, his coauthors on bestselling novels include Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton, and his honors include an Edgar Award, ten Emmys, the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award and the National Humanities Medal.
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