2nd Chance (Womens Murder Club 2) [Paperback]

In 2nd Chance, a young girl is shot down on the steps of a San Francisco church, and Detective Lindsay Boxer decides that the time is right to reconvene the Women's Murder Club, the loosely-knit group that cracked a baffling mystery in James Patterson's earlier 1st to Die. Collaborating with assistant DA Jill Bernhardt, reporter Cindy Thomas and coroner Claire Washburn, Boxer is soon on the trail of a canny murderer who has the knack of making his trackers into his quarry. Boxer and the Women's Murder Club begin to believe that the killer might have been on the force, but his ultimate aims are unguessable--and the revelations in store shock them all.

Patterson is the maestro behind such winners as Cat and Mouse and Roses are Red, but his Alex Cross books are familiar territory for readers. His new team, however, are individually characterised with great skill, and though the short time we spend with each of them forces concision on the author--and his mysterious co-writer Andrew Gross's--part, the customary skills are all brought into play in this diverting mystery. It's always a gamble for an author who has established a highly successful series with one much-loved protagonist to inaugurate a new one with fresh characters but The Women's Murder Club has all kinds of possibilities and chances are will prove a formidable force. --Barry Forshaw --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'An exciting page-turner with more twists than in a tap factory' Sunderland Echo -- Sunderland Echo 20020531 'The protagonists are all characterized with imagination, and the plotting is taut. An exciting, accomplished thriller' Good Book Guide -- Good Book Guide 20020601 'Intriguing, exciting and frightening'" Weekend Australian -- Weekend Australian 20020601 'Relish ..the inventive twists of the plot' Sunday Times 1/2/03 -- Sunday Times 20030201

'Ticks like a time-bomb - full of threat and terror' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The second novel in the Women's Murder Club series.

The tragic end of the honeymoon murder case left Lindsay Boxer, San Francisco’s only woman homicide detective, unsure if she could ever return to work. But when a little girl is shot outside a San Francisco church, she knows it’s time to reconvene the Women’s Murder Club. 

Working with reporter Cindy Thomas, assistant DA Jill Bernhardt, and medical examiner Claire Washburn, Lindsay starts to track a mystifying killer who quickly turns his pursuers into his victims.

James Patterson is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past decade: the Women's Murder Club, the Alex Cross novels and Maximum Ride, and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. He has won an Edgar Award, the mystery world's highest honour. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.