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When a young mother and her infant are gunned down in a shopping‑mall garage, Detective Lindsay Boxer finds only a blood‑red lipstick message on the windshield. That night, the wife of a celebrity actor is robbed in a jewel heist, leaving one body and a city in hysteria. With her partner Rich and the Women’s Murder Club, Boxer must untangle both cases before a killer forces her to risk her own life to protect San Francisco.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: James Patterson
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