There is a red herring (if one could call it that) and a vaguely surprising twist at the end, but I read this with an unusual level of detachment and disinterest, and so was not impressed by anything. 4 women, each with their own stake in cracking the case, are determined to nail the killer, and so band together outside of official channels to pool their resources and figure it all out. The story: a psycho serial killer begins murdering newly married couples. Roz KaveneyĪm I the only one that thinks that "Women's Murder Club" sounds not only hokey but juvenile and begging mockery? 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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