The 6th Target
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When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt.
And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their nannies--but the kidnappers aren't demanding ransom. Amid uncertainty and rising panic, Lindsay juggles the possibility of a new love with an unsolvable investigation, and the knowledge that one member of the club could be on the brink of death.
And just when everything appears momentarily under control, the case takes a terrifying turn, putting an entire city in lethal danger. Lindsay must make a choice she never dreamed she'd face--with no certainty that either outcome has more than a prayer of success.
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24 primary books26 released books#6 in Women's Murder Club
Women's Murder Club is a 26-book series with 24 primary works first released in 2001 with contributions by James Patterson, Andrew Gross, and Maxine Paetro.
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I have been avidly consuming the Women's Murder Club novels for the past month or so - loving my first experience of crime writing and Patterson's authoring.
With this book we find Lyndsey Boxer chasing down a gunman who has killed 5 people on board a San Francisco Ferry. Pair this with another storyline of missing children and it makes for another standard Women's Murder Club outing. They are following the same format as the previous few books - 2 story lines intertwined.
I however found this one slightly less satisfying than the other books - the story lines and suspects didn't grip me quite so much and it lacked menace. The other girls seem to feature rarely and it seemed a bit too formulaic for me. Hoping 7 will be back on form as i have been enjoying these...
Good thing the WMC books are fast reads.
The good: this one is better than The 5th Horseman, but I'm still only giving it 2 stars
The bad: once again, too many plots circling around and never really finding a good place to land. Insane killer with mommy/sister issues, dead nannies, missing children, Club members' lives being in danger, Lindsay being insecure (Joe is a saint for dealing with her issues), etc. None of those plot lines had any depth. They just skipped over the pages of the book like a stone skipping over a lake. What happened to the women working together? Or at least talking things through? Cindy was practically non-existent through most of the story - even the one that concerned her apartment building. Claire just sat in the hospital after being shot in the opening scene(and she never did chew Lindsay out for the whole Joe thing). Still getting used to Yuki, who had a larger role than the others, but she still didn't have much to do with the others.
Being an eternal optimist when it comes to series I start out liking, here's hoping 7 is better.
I have to say I am liking more and more the books after Maxine Paetro came into the picture. This one, the 6th in the series, was very interesting with A LOT happening. This one also had a lot more interaction between the members of the Women's Murder Club, which was something that I missed in the last two books. Because that's my favorite part of these series, Lindsay, Claire, Cindy and now Yuki, sitting together with a round of margaritas, talking about a case, each one bringing her expertise.
