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The 19th Christmas (Women's Murder Club, 19)
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, the Women's Murder Club gets ready for a quiet Christmas-until a mysterious killer decides to terrorize the city. As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Women's Murder Club have much to celebrate. Crime is down. The medical examiner's office is quiet. Even the courts are showing some Christmas spirit. And the news cycle is so slow that journalist Cindy Thomas is on assignment to tell a story about the true meaning of the season for San Francisco. Then a fearsome criminal known only as "Loman" seizes control of the headlines. Solving crimes never happens on schedule, but as this criminal mastermind unleashes credible threats by the hour, the month of December is upended for the Women's Murder Club. Avoiding tragedy is the only holiday miracle they seek.
Readers Top Reviews
Thomas Page
My wife got hold of this book, and I have not yet seen it !!. She tells me that the storyline is yet again up to the excellent standard of previous "Murder Club" books. The collaboration between James Patterson and Maxine Paetro is very good. The suspense and the flow of the story was very good, and she says that she couldn't leave it for long before going back to read more of it. That is all I need to know, she is an avid reader, and we agree when it comes to reading and "marking" books.
geoff church
Murder, mayhem and mystery. It's a slow burner opening, stick with it as it picks up pace. A most unlikely twist, or rather twists as for once the ending is not obvious even to seasoned Paterson readers. Thought that it was going to be a dud but no it's a cracker.
MichellePeter M. A
A police department going into overdrive on Christmas because of random, anonymous tips about a possible crime maybe being committed was too much. Everyone was running in circles with each new fake threat and it became too repetitive and boring after a while. Joe’s mysterious older daughter is finally brought into the storyline which was good because it was weird there was only one mention of her from a past book. Overall, an okay story but it needed more WMC because they never even met up until the end of the book.
