There is something about the Women's Murder Club that has always kept me on the edge of my seat. A great story for series fans and sure to attract some new readers who have a penchant for quick read stories. How will San Francisco survive all this and can Boxer rise above an Internal Affairs investigation for her actions as they relate to the Sci-Tron bombing? Patterson and Paetro offer an explosive ending to this sixteenth instalment to the series. All this while Cindy Thomas is getting the inside scoop and reporting the news garnered from her fellow Club members, sometimes without their knowledge and consent. Could there be someone in San Francisco injecting people with some unknown narcotic? As the reader discovers, one Neddie Lambo is on the loose, playing up his detention in a psychiatric facility, but actually plotting a number of these random killings to feed his need for control. Further investigation shows that the deaths are connected by a strange injection in the buttocks that each victim exhibits. Claire Washburn, the city's Chief Medical Examiner (and, of course, another of the Club's members) contacts Sergeant Boxer about a mysterious string of deaths, originally attributed to heart conditions. The trial is harrowing and far from a slam-dunk, leaving the verdict in the hands of the twelve-member jury.

While Boxer braces for what is surely a major situation, Yuki Castellano, the lawyer of the Murder Club, assumes second chair in this major trial, pitting the wily District Attorney against Grant, who has chosen to represent himself. After arresting him, this Connor Grant denies ever saying anything about being culpable and he is sent to trial for murdering twenty-five innocent people and injuring many more, including Joe. Soon thereafter, Boxer overhears a man claim responsibility, almost unable to believe her own ears. An explosion rocks and destroys the building. After agreeing to see her estranged husband, Joe, they take a stroll close to Sci-Tron, the city's science museum. San Francisco is not immune, which leaves Sergeant Lindsay Boxer on high alert.

The world is beset with a new terrorist organisation, loosely called GAR, the Great Antiestablishment Reset, happy to wreak havoc at every turn. Working alongside Maxine Paetro to craft sixteen novels in the Women's Murder Club, Patterson has been able to present high-impact writing peppered with some interesting legal and criminal angles. Another piece that shows that Patterson knows how to choose some of his co-authors to produce entertaining writing.

16th Seduction by James Patterson