18 books like 4th of July

What to read after 4th of July — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

1st to Die James Patterson · 2001 · ★ 4.4 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Four women-four friends-share a determination to stop a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.But the… Shares: Women's Murder Club, Female friendship, Policewomen, Women detectives

The 8th confession James Patterson · 1998 · ★ 4.4 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate As San Francisco's most glamorous millionaires mingle at the party of the year, someone is watching--waiting for a chance to take vengeance on Isa and Ethan Bailey, the city's most celebrated couple. Finally, the killer pinpoints the ideal moment, and it's the perfect murder. Not a trace of evidence is left behind in their glamorous home. As Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile… Shares: Women's Murder Club, Female friendship, Policewomen, Women detectives

2nd Chance James Patterson · 2002 · ★ 4.1 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D. A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation.… Shares: Women's Murder Club, Female friendship, Women detectives, Serial murders

Amateur City Katherine V. Forrest · 1984 · ★ 4.2 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Tough and demanding LAPD Detective Kate Delafield is the leader of the investigation into a high-rise office building murder. The case is intriguing but routine—until Kate interviews the only witness, Ellen O'Neil. When Ellen O'Neil took her new job over the objections of her lover, she wasn't expecting to become embroiled in murder. The curiosity that Kate Delafield rouses is equally… Shares: Policewomen, California, Women detectives, Police

14th Deadly Sin James Patterson & Maxine Paetro · 2015 · ★ 4.5 · 366p · ≈ 12h · Moderate With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer can safely say that her life has never been better. In fact (for a change), things seem to be going well for all the members of the Women's Murder Club as they gather to celebrate San Francisco Medical Examiner Claire Washburn's birthday. But the party is cut short when Lindsay is called to a gruesome crime scene, where… Shares: Women's Murder Club, Policewomen, Police, Mystery

Ceremony in Death Nora Roberts · 1997 · ★ 4.5 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Fifth Eve Dallas Investigation In Death Even in an age of cutting-edge technology, old beliefs die hard... Death surrounded her. She faced it daily, dreamed of it nightly. Lived with it always. She knew its sounds, its scents, even its texture. Ten years as a cop hadn't hardened her toward it. A decade on the force hadn't made her accept it. Conducting a top-secret investigation into the death… Shares: Policewomen, Women detectives, Police, Mystery

The 6th Target James Patterson & Maxine Paetro · 1728 · ★ 4.1 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Demanding When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their… Shares: Women's Murder Club, Female friendship, Policewomen, Women detectives

The 9th judgment James Patterson · 2010 · ★ 4.2 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The most personalA young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick. The most dangerousThe same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat… Shares: Women's Murder Club, Female friendship, Women detectives, Mystery

3rd Degree James Patterson & Andrew Gross · 2004 · ★ 4.4 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The #1 bestselling new mystery series of the past decade comes roaring back with 3rd Degree, a shockingly suspenseful thriller featuring the Women's Murder Club. One of James Patterson's best loved heroines is about to die. Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. A town house owned by an Internet millionaire… Shares: Women's Murder Club, Female friendship, Women detectives, Mystery

Verdict unsafe Jill McGown · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Detective Inspector Judy Hill anxiously watched the trial of serial rapist Colin Arthur Drummond from the public gallery--never forgetting his chilling threat that she would be his next victim. The prosecution should have an open-and-shut case. But sixteen months later Drummond is back on the streets, threatening Judy once more. And as Judy sets out to prove Drummond's guilt for the second time,… Shares: Policewomen, Women detectives, Police, Mystery

Born in Death Nora Roberts · 2006 · ★ 4.5 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A Eve Dallas Investigation In Death 2060 in New York City. Lieutenant Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers-both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm-are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn't leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis Freestone, but that's supposedly what friends are for. Now Mavis… Shares: Policewomen, Women detectives, Police, Mystery

Hangman Stephan Talty · 2014 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Pursuing an escaped serial killer to the city limits of Buffalo, homicide detective Abbie Kearney is horrified when teenage girls begin to go missing, a situation that reveals precinct corruption and suggests that the killer is being helped. Shares: Policewomen, Serial murders

Killing Time Linda Howard · 2005 · ★ 4.3 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Returning to the entrancing supernatural territory of her popular novels Dream Man and Son of the Morning, New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard has written a sizzling new novel that is her most daring, exciting, and original yet. In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years… Shares: Women detectives, Serial murders, Mystery

Who watcheth Helene Tursten · 2016 · 291p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "He watches the women from the shadows. He has an understanding with them; as long as they follow his rules, they are safe. But when they sin, he sentences them to death. A woman is found dead in a cemetery, strangled and covered in plastic. A thorough examination of the corpse reveals that the killer left behind no evidence. But just a few days before her death, the victim received a flower, an… Shares: Policewomen, Women detectives, Police

All Shall Be Well Deborah Crombie · 1994 · ★ 4.4 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Moderate From an author who is “writing in P.D. James territory” (Associated Press) comes a compelling Scotland Yard detective novel in the entertaining Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James series.Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep. At long last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her… Shares: Policewomen, Police, Mystery

Leave the Grave Green Deborah Crombie · 1995 · ★ 4.5 · 333p · ≈ 11h · Moderate When Connor Swann, the dissolute son-in-law of renowned and influential Sir Gerald and Dame Caroline Asherton, is found floating in a Thames River lock, the circumstances eerily recall a strangely similar tragedy. Twenty years ago, the Ashertons' young son, Matthew, a musical prodigy, drowned in a swollen stream while in the company of his sister Julia -- Connor Swann's wife.Police Superintendant… Shares: Policewomen, Police, Mystery

Another City, Not My Own Dominick Dunne · 1997 · ★ 3.8 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Told from the point of view of one of Dunne's most familiar fictional characters - Gus Bailey - Another City, Not My Own tells how Gus, the movers and shakers of Los Angeles, and the city itself are drawn into the vortex of the O.J. Simpson trial. We have met Gus Bailey in previous novels by Dominick Dunne. He is a writer and journalist, father of a murdered child, and chronicler of justice -… Shares: California, Trials

Ghost in the Gallery Carolyn Keene · 1955 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A ghostly figure, a walking suit of armor, and a gargoyle in the prompter's box confront Jean and Louise Dana and their Starhurst classmates as they rehearse for a musical at Mozart Hall. The owner, a retired singer, and the watchman assure the performers there is nothing to worry about. The students wonder whether their imaginations are playing tricks on them. Or are spooky things actually… Shares: Women detectives, Mystery

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