Unlucky 13

When a horrific discovery on the Golden Gate Bridge pulls Detective Lindsay Boxer into one of the most disturbing cases of her career, the tension is immediate and unrelenting. But before she can make sense of what she's looking at, a threat from her past resurfaces — a killer who knows her, knows the city, and has very personal reasons to come back. Patterson and Paetro stack these two storylines with genuine menace, building dread not just around who did it, but around how close the danger is getting to Lindsay's own life, her marriage, and the tight circle of women she trusts most.

What distinguishes this entry in the Women's Murder Club series is how efficiently it moves — short, punchy chapters that shift perspective without losing momentum, keeping the pages turning almost involuntarily. The co-authors have a strong command of procedural detail that never bogs down the emotional throughline, and Lindsay remains one of genre fiction's more grounded protagonists: tough without being invincible, personally invested without being reckless. For readers already in the series, it delivers everything that makes the club worth returning to.