1st to Die
- Authors: James Patterson
- Series: Book 1 in the Women's Murder Club series
- Type: Novel
- Genres: Mystery
- Rank:Top 100 in Best Women Sleuths Books on AmazonTop 1000 in Best Suspense Thrillers on Amazon
- Rating: 4.5 based on 32,448 reviews
- Release Date: March 5, 2001
- Print length: 432 pages (Hardcover)
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About the book
As the only woman homicide inspector in San Francisco, Lindsay Boxer has to be tough. But nothing has prepared her for the honeymoon murders. A brutal maniac begins a killing spree, slaughtering newlywed couples, and Lindsay takes on the case. She is sickened by the deaths, but her determination to bring the murderer to justice is threatened by a personal tragedy. So she turns to Claire, a coroner, Cindy, a journalist, and Jill, an attorney, for help with both crises: and the Women's Murder Club is born.
Praise for 1st to Die
Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.