Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back and recovering from the events that pushed them all to the edge.After her near-death experience, Yuki is seeing her life from a new perspective and is considering a change in her law career. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy has healed from her gunshot wound and has published a book on the infamous serial killers she helped to bring down. Lindsay is just happy that the gang are all still in one piece.But a new terror is sweeping the streets of San Francisco. A gang dressed as cops are ransacking the city, and leaving a string of dead bodies in their wake. Lindsay is on the case to track them down and needs to discover whether these killers could actually be police officers. Maybe even cops she already knows...
This doesn’t happen often, but I am going to start this
review off with a complaint:
There was NOT nearly enough scenes with the Women’s Murder
Club fully assembled.
With all of the chaos in these books, the scenes where the
girls are all together are like breaths of fresh air. They are fun and comical
and give the book a much needed break from the intense crimes. This book was
lacking that.
AND aside from Lindsay and Yuki, we hardly even read about
the girls doing things in their normal working lives.
Phew.
Now that I have that off my chest….
I did enjoy this installment. We are now 14 books in, and I
cannot get enough of Lindsay Boxer. These books are released one per year, but
that is not enough for me. I always get excited when I see the new one up for
preorder online, and I always preorder right away.
This one did not disappoint.
I know by reading reviews of some of Patterson’s other books
that the stories are getting old and repetitive. They lack creativity and excitement.
If you are new here, I don’t believe that to be the case. If you are not new
here… Well, I am still not bored of his books.
14th Deadly Sin introduced some new characters,
and a truly unsettling story.
Cops are supposed to be the ones we trust. But, when folks
wearing SFPD wind breakers are the ones committing crimes, who can really be
trusted?
I couldn’t figure out who the true killers were until they
were revealed. It is always satisfying when that happens, because guessing the
twist before the reveal can make a book really boring to get through.
I enjoyed the story, I enjoyed the flow, and I just really
enjoyed having a new WMC book to read.
4/5 stars. Give me more Women’s Murder Club get-together.
Side note: There was also not enough Martha. Lindsay and
Martha scenes are always cute. Pets <3
