2nd Chance reconvenes the Women's Murder Club,
four friends (adetective, a reporter, an assistant district
attorney, and a medical examiner)who used their networking skills,
feminine intuition, and professional wiles tosolve a baffling
series of murders in 1st to Die. This time, themurders of two
African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all
thesigns of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to
lieutenant of SanFrancisco's homicide squad. But there's an odd
detail she finds even moredisturbing: both victims were related to
city cops. A symbol glimpsed at bothmurder scenes leads to a racist
hate group, but the taunting killer strikesagain and again, leaving
deliberate clues and eluding the police ever morecleverly.
In the meantime, each of the women has a personal stake at
risk--andthe killer knows who they are. 2nd Chance speeds along at
a Formula One pace through many tight curves,but unlike recent
entries in theAlex Cross series, itdoesn't sacrifice good
characters to a twisted plot. Lindsay's the star, butthere's a fine
esprit de corps among the four women, who are even betterdeveloped
here than in the first book. What makes them both convincing
andinteresting as a criminal-justice juggernaut is their
willingness to stick theirnecks out, even if they suffer for it. If
you haven't picked up a JamesPatterson novel in a while, this is a
great time to start anew.
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