7th Heaven

The seventh Women's Murder Club novel tracks a string of arson murders targeting wealthy suburban couples while Lindsay Boxer simultaneously investigates the month-old disappearance of California's golden-boy teenager, Michael Campion. Patterson and Paetro build the pressure from two directions as the fires grow closer to home, and Lindsay, torn between two men in her personal life, finds the professional and the personal collapsing into each other.

Carolyn McCormick's narration excels at the domestic tension woven through both cases, grounding the thriller in the specific emotional exhaustion of a detective whose work follows her home. Her voice gives the recurring Women's Murder Club ensemble a genuine feeling of camaraderie under strain, which is what keeps readers returning to this format book after book.