MAY 3, 2021
SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE
21st Birthday The Women’s Murder Club Series, Book 21 By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro Read by January LaVoy Lindsay vows to protect a twenty-year-old victim long enough to see her twenty- rst birthday.
“Smart characters, shocking twists, and a villain so evil you count down to the very last page to discover what will happen next.”
—Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author, on The 18th Abduction
SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has sworn to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic. As Lindsay prepares to celebrate her own daughter’s birthday, she clashes with rising Chief Charlie Clapper over a family case. When a distraught mother pleads with Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, Linda, and baby granddaughter, Lorrie, Cindy immediately loops in SFPD. But Linda’s schoolteacher husband, Lucas Burke, tells a con icting story that paints Linda as a wayward wife, not a missing person. And there’s reason to believe he may be telling the truth. While M.E. Claire Washburn harbors theories that run counter to the police investigation of the Burke case, ADA Yuki Castellano sizes Lucas up as a textbook domestic offender—until he puts forward a theory of his own that unexpectedly connects the dots on a constellation of copycat killings. If what Lucas tells law enforcement has even a grain of truth, there isn’t a woman in the state of California who’s safe from the reach of such an unspeakable threat. JAMES PATTERSON is one of the most popular writers of all time, with more than 375 million copies of his books sold worldwide. He holds the record for most New York Times bestsellers and is the author of the two most popular detective series of the past decade, the Alex Cross novels and the Women’s Murder Club. MAXINE PAETRO is the author of several novels and works of non ction and the coauthor of numerous books with James Patterson. She lives in New York with her husband.
MARKETING Print run: 630,000 A #1 New York Times bestselling series Patterson holds the Guinness World Record for the most #1 New York Times bestsellers Patterson received the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community from the National Book Foundation Author website: JamesPatterson.com National advertising campaign, including television, print, and online advertising
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