A magic hat trick with the million-dollar-promo thriller...Big warm feelings, usually foreign to thrillers, coax laughter during times of high tension.Reads like a dream.

The man is the master of this genre. We fans willhave one wish for him: write even faster.

Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club make a courageous return for their most thrit[ing case ever - one that could easily be their last.

In a late-night showdown, Lindsay has to make an instantaneous decision: in

self-defence she fires her weapon - and sets off a chain of events that leaves a police force disgraced, a city divided and a family destroyed. Now everything she's worked for her entire life hinges on the decision of twelve jurors.

To escape the media circus. Lindsay retreats to the picturesque town of Half MoLn Bay. Soon after, a string of grisly murders punches through the community.There are no witnesses; there is no pattern. But a key detail reminds Lindsay of an unsolved murder she worked on years ago. As summer comes into full swing, Lindsay and her friends in the Women's Murder Club hattie for her life on two fronts: in court, and against a ruthless killer.