num_pages: 468
description: Librarian's Note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this book here.James Patterson inaugurates a new crime series with the impressively complex First to Die: the Women's Murder Club, a group of San Francisco professionals--a homicide cop, an assistant district attorney, a pathologist and a reporter--share their information and thinking on cases. Someone is killing honeymoon couples on their first night together and nothing that we know about the killer is, we realise, entirely reliable: the connections between the victims are tenuous and the killer's method varies significantly. Intelligent, sensitive, tough cop Lindsay Boxer has problems of her own--a potentially fatal blood condition and a suspicion that she is falling for the intelligent divorced spin-doctor forced on her as partner by a publicity-conscious city government. The conversations she has with her friends are partly a matter of looking again at the results of legwork--sometimes explaining something to people who do not share your automatic assumptions makes you look at it again--and partly a matter of sharing expertise; rapidly they realise that they are up against someone for whom murder is a sexual game. Patterson has always had an eye for the psychology of killers--here he adds empathy for those to whom caring about victims is a way of life. --Roz Kaveney
language: English
title: 1st to Die
titlecomplete: 1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1)
characters: Claire Washburn, Jill Bernhardt, Warren Jacobi, Lindsay Boxer, Cindy Thomas
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Adult, Crime, Murder Mystery, Suspense
ratings_count: 333258
places: San Francisco, California
series: Women's Murder Club
publisher: Headline