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2nd chance : Women's murder club / by James Patterson with Andrew Gross.

ISBN: 0316693200
ISBN: 9780316693202
ISBN: 9780446696630
ISBN: 0446696633
Physical Description: 390 pages ; 25 cm.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, c2002.

Patterson, James, 1947- (Author). Gross, Andrew, 1952- (Added Author).

Summary:

The Women's Murder Club returns for another thrilling crime investigation. Will their skills be enough to take down a brutal madman? A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D. A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation. This killer's motives are unspeakable. The murders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all the signs of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of San Francisco's homicide squad. But there's an odd detail she finds even more disturbing: both victims were related to city cops. A symbol glimpsed at both murder scenes leads to a racist hate group, but the taunting killer strikes again and again, leaving deliberate clues and eluding the police ever more cleverly. In the meantime, each of the women has a personal stake at risk -- and the killer knows who they are.