In 2nd Chance Patterson lives up to his reputation with his second of the Lindsay Boxer series by capturing the reader’s interest in the first couple of pages with the senseless slaying of eleven-year-old Tasha Catchings (a young choir member) on the very doorstep of the La Salle Heights church. This murder as well as the other killings that are committed by the novel’s diabolical madman (who isn’t prejudice against any one group but rather includes people from every walk of life) requires all the genius of the Women’s Murder Club to solve and as soon as you think you know who-done-it you find out that the killer is still out there.By incorporating the four heroines in the book, Lindsay Boxer (a
San Francisco police inspector), Claire Washburn (a medical examiner), Cindy Thomas (a crime scene reporter for the Chronicle) and Jill Bernhardt (an assistant D.A.) Patterson gives us a spell-binding book filled with twists and turns that will leave you frightened of the dark for days after you turn the book’s final pages where Patterson successfully ties the entire story together with a totally unexpected ending.

If you are a die-hard Patterson fan or not this series, that began with 1st to Die and this subsequent novel 2nd Chance, is a must read for any action-filled mystery junkie.

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