Part of Women's Murder Club, book 19
First published 2019
Christmas should bring peace to San Francisco. Detective Lindsay Boxer watches crime rates drop while her colleagues in the Women's Murder Club enjoy the quiet season. Journalist Cindy Thomas gets assigned a feel-good holiday story. The medical examiner's office stays empty. Even the courts embrace seasonal goodwill. Then Loman strikes. This criminal mastermind hijacks every headline with threats that multiply by the hour. He recruits dozens of accomplices to execute coordinated attacks that will hide his true Christmas morning target. His appetite for money, violence, and fame knows no bounds. Lindsay and the SFPD scramble to decode his strategy as December spirals into chaos. The Women's Murder Club abandons their holiday plans. Solving cases never follows a timeline, but Loman's escalating threats turn their peaceful month into a race against disaster. Lindsay must penetrate his network of criminals and uncover his ultimate plan before Christmas arrives. The only miracle she wants is preventing a tragedy that could destroy her city's most sacred day.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: race-against-time, team-up
Setting: San Francisco
Period: Christmas
368 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown and Company