First published 2009
Detective Lindsay Boxer faces a new threat in San Francisco's most exclusive neighborhoods. The city's wealthy elite gather in their grand mansions for lavish parties filled with drugs, alcohol, and casual sex. Money flows as freely as champagne behind these gilded doors. But someone without an invitation has decided to join the festivities. This uninvited guest has their own plans for the rich and famous. As bodies begin to surface, Lindsay and the Women's Murder Club must navigate the dangerous world of San Francisco's upper class. The investigation takes them into private clubs and behind mansion gates where secrets hide in plain sight. Lindsay discovers that wealth and privilege cannot protect anyone from a killer determined to make their own rules. The detective must uncover who is targeting the elite before more lives are lost to this deadly party crasher.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, police-investigation
Setting: San Francisco
Period: 21st-century
352 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown and Company
Content warnings: violence