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Women's Murder Club Books In Order (Full List)
Women's Murder Club is a series of 27 books by James Patterson. The first book published in the series is 1st to Die in 2000. Here is a complete list of Women's Murder Club books in order.
Last update: October 18, 2026
1. 1st to Die (2000)
So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving one another a hand.
- π 432 Pages
- π 108,000 - 129,600 Word Count
- β±οΈ 14 Hours Reading Time
2. 2nd Chance (2002)
Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. A violent madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church.
- π 400 Pages
- π 100,000 - 120,000 Word Count
- β±οΈ 13 Hours Reading Time
3. 3rd Degree (2004)
A town house owned by an Internet millionaire is immediately engulfed in flames, and when Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she finds three people dead.
- π 360 Pages
- π 90,000 - 108,000 Word Count
- β±οΈ 12 Hours Reading Time
4. 4th of July (2005)
- π 435 Pages
- π 108,750 - 130,500 Word Count
- β±οΈ 15 Hours Reading Time
5. The 5th Horseman (2006)
While the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, the Women's Murder Club hunts for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff.
- π 410 Pages
- π 102,500 - 123,000 Word Count
- β±οΈ 14 Hours Reading Time
6. The 6th Target (2007)
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.
- π 400 Pages
- π 100,000 - 120,000 Word Count
- β±οΈ 13 Hours Reading Time
7. 7th Heaven (2008)
After California's golden boy, Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case--a devastating lead.
- π 376 Pages
- π 94,000 - 112,800 Word Count
- β±οΈ 13 Hours Reading Time
8. The 8th Confession (2009)
Finally, the killer pinpoints the ideal moment, and it's the perfect murder. As Detective Lindsay Boxer checks the high-profile murder, someone else is found violent executed--a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless.
- π 366 Pages
- π 91,500 - 109,800 Word Count
- β±οΈ 12 Hours Reading Time
9. The 9th Judgment (2010)
The most exciting Women's Murder Club novel everLindsay spends every waking hour working with her partner, Rich--and her desire for him threatens to tear apart both her engagement and the Women's Murder Club.
- π 355 Pages
- π 88,750 - 106,500 Word Count
- β±οΈ 12 Hours Reading Time
10. 10th Anniversary (2011)
Lindsay learns that not only is there no trace of the criminals, but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well.
- π 416 Pages
- π 104,000 - 124,800 Word Count
- β±οΈ 14 Hours Reading Time
11. 11th Hour (2012)
Investigating the murder of a millionaire who was killed with a weapon linked to the deaths of four San Francisco criminals.
- π 393 Pages
- π 98,250 - 117,900 Word Count
- β±οΈ 13 Hours Reading Time
12. 12th of Never (2013)
A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. And an eccentric English professor has been having nightmares about a violent murder he's convinced is real.
- π 432 Pages
- π 108,000 - 129,600 Word Count
- β±οΈ 14 Hours Reading Time
13. Unlucky 13 (2014)
De vriendinnen van de'Women's Murder Club' krijgen het aan de stok met een oude bekende, een buikbom-moordenaar en zestien terroristen aan boord van een cruiseschip naar Alaska.
- π 461 Pages
- π 115,250 - 138,300 Word Count
- β±οΈ 15 Hours Reading Time
14. 14th Deadly Sin (2015)
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.
- π 367 Pages
- π 91,750 - 110,100 Word Count
- β±οΈ 12 Hours Reading Time
15. 15th Affair (2016)
- π 351 Pages
- π 87,750 - 105,300 Word Count
- β±οΈ 12 Hours Reading Time
16. 16th Seduction (2017)
Still reeling from her husband's betrayal, Lindsay Boxer checks a wave of possibly unnatural heart attacks claiming the lives of seemingly unrelated victims while assisting the prosecution of a bomber with a hostile defense.
- π 350 Pages
- π 87,500 - 105,000 Word Count
- β±οΈ 12 Hours Reading Time
17. The 17th Suspect (2018)
She suffers unsettling medical symptoms, and her friends and confidantes in the Women's Murder Club warn Lindsay against taking the crimes too much to heart.
- π 384 Pages
- π 96,000 - 115,200 Word Count
- β±οΈ 13 Hours Reading Time
18. The 18th Abduction (2019)
Detective Lindsay Boxer and her husband Joe Molinari team up to protect San Francisco from an international war criminal in the newest Women's Murder Club thriller, and to solve the School Night case.
- π 416 Pages
- π 104,000 - 124,800 Word Count
- β±οΈ 14 Hours Reading Time
19. The 19th Christmas (2019)
As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends are celebrating the fact that crime is down. Soon, a criminal known only as "Loman" shows up in the headlines.
- π 368 Pages
- π 92,000 - 110,400 Word Count
- β±οΈ 12 Hours Reading Time
20. The 20th Victim (2020)
- π 432 Pages
- π 108,000 - 129,600 Word Count
- β±οΈ 14 Hours Reading Time
21. 21st Birthday (2021)
- π 416 Pages
- π 104,000 - 124,800 Word Count
- β±οΈ 14 Hours Reading Time
22. 22 Seconds (2022)
- π 400 Pages
- π 100,000 - 120,000 Word Count
- β±οΈ 13 Hours Reading Time
23. The 23rd Midnight (2023)
Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club open a murder case that the earlier club books do not share.
- π 400 Pages
- π 100,000 - 120,000 Word Count
- β±οΈ 13 Hours Reading Time
24. The 24th Hour (2024)
- π 384 Pages
- π 96,000 - 115,200 Word Count
- β±οΈ 13 Hours Reading Time
25. 25 Alive (2025)
- π 368 Pages
- π 92,000 - 110,400 Word Count
- β±οΈ 12 Hours Reading Time
26. 26 Beauties (2026)
An uninvited guest crashes the Womenβs Murder Club's party: a concerned father seeking investigative reporter Cindy Thomasβs help in locating his missing daughter. SFPDβs Sergeant Lindsay Boxer's best friend, Claire Washburn, is named medical examiner of the year.
- π 432 Pages
- π 108,000 - 129,600 Word Count
- β±οΈ 14 Hours Reading Time
27. 27 Stars (2027)
- π 400 Pages
- π 100,000 - 120,000 Word Count
- β±οΈ 13 Hours Reading Time







