"2nd Chance"

"2nd Chance" is the second book in The Women's Murder Club series authored by James Patterson with Andrew Gross.  Lindsay Boxer is just returning to duty after solving "the biggest murder case since Harvey Milk" and she is now Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer, head of San Francisco's homicide division.

When a young black girl is killed just as the choir she was practicing with is leaving church, it is first thought to be an accident and a miracle - a miracle that she is the only one who died when the whole front of the church is shot up and no other child nor the minister, Andrew Winslow, are even seriously injured from the hail of bullets.

Is this a hate crime?  However, as Lindsay and her team begin their investigation, they find a link to the killing of an elderly black woman then their own Chief Mercer becomes a target.  What is behind these killings?  It appears that all victims are policemen or have links to the police and one clue leads them to "chimera"  which leads Lindsay to one of the toughest prisons in the state and one of its most vile prisoners looking for clues.

In the meantime, life goes on as Jill announces she is pregnant, Claire becomes romantically involved with Rev. Andrew Winslow, and Lindsay's father shows up after a 20 year absence.

This is another brilliant mystery -- just when we believe Lindsay has solved her case and the murderer is no longer a threat more clues complicate that assumption and we're taken on another whirlwind ride seeking the truth.  pazt