20th Victim

The Women's Murder Club face the fight of their lives in the latest thriller from the bestselling James Patterson series.
Some people like to shoot. Some people like to kill.
Three victims, three bullets, three cities.
The first of these simultaneous serial killings occurs in San Francisco, Sergeant Lindsay Boxer's jurisdiction and reporter Cindy Thomas's beat. The shooters are precise, as is their target selection. Each one of the men and women down excels at an illegal and deadly activity that is dominating public debate. As the casualty list expands, the fear and fascination with this shooting gallery galvanises the county.
Are the shooter villains or heroes? And who will be next?
"CINDY THOMAS WAS tuned in to her police scanner as she drove
through the Friday-morning rush to her job at the San Francisco Chronicle For the last fifteen minutes there’d been nothing but routine calls back and forth between dispatch and patrol cars. Then something happened. The Whistler TRX-1 scanner went crazy with static and cross talk. It was as though a main switch had been thrown wide open. Codes in the four hundreds jammed the channel. She knew them all: 406, officer needs emergency help; 408, send ambulance; 410, requested assistance responding. Cindy was an investigative journalist, top dog on the crime beat. Her assistance was definitely not requested, but she was responding anyway. Tips didn’t get hotter than ones that came right off the scanner. The location of the reported shooting was a Taco King on Duboce Avenue. Cindy took a right off Otis Street and headed toward the Duboce Triangle, near the center of San Francisco between the Mission, the Castro, and the Lower Haight."