Women's Murder Club · Book 1
1st to Die
- Published
- 5 March 2001
- Pages
- 424
- ISBN-13
- 9780613608701
- Type
- novel

About this book
1st to Die is the opening novel of James Patterson's Women's Murder Club series, published in March 2001 at 424 pages. It's the series' starting point, followed by 2nd Chance in a series that runs to 26 books.
Its place in Women's Murder Club
1st to Die is book 1 in the Women's Murder Club series. It is followed by 2nd Chance. See the full Women's Murder Club reading order.
The Women's Murder Club begins with a simple idea: four friends in San Francisco, each with a different angle on murder, pooling what they know over margaritas and takeout. Lindsay Boxer is the SFPD homicide detective (eventually sergeant) at the center of the series; Claire Washburn is the city's medical examiner; Cindy Thomas is a crime reporter at the Chronicle who has an inconvenient habit of arriving at scenes first; and Yuki Castellano, who joins the club early on, prosecutes the cases the others build. Off…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446610032
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446678421
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