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The 18th Abduction (Women's Murder Club, 18) Mass Market Paperback – March 31, 2020
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For a trio of colleagues, an innocent night out after class ends in a deadly torture session. They vanish without a clue -- until a body turns up. With the safety of San Francisco's entire school system at stake, Lindsay has never been under more pressure. As the chief of police and the press clamor for an arrest in the "school night" case, Lindsay turns to her best friend, investigative journalist Cindy Thomas. Together, Lindsay and Cindy take a new approach to the case, and unexpected facts about the victims leave them stunned.
While Lindsay is engrossed in her investigation, her husband Joe meets an Eastern European woman who claims to have seen a notorious war criminal -- long presumed dead -- from her home country. Before Lindsay can verify the woman's statement, Joe's mystery informant joins the ranks of the missing women. Lindsay, Joe, and the entire Women's Murder Club must pull together to protect their city and one another -- not from a ghost, but from a true monster.
- Print length384 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGrand Central Publishing
- Publication dateMarch 31, 2020
- Dimensions4.2 x 1.2 x 7.5 inches
- ISBN-101538731606
- ISBN-13978-1538731604
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Maxine Paetro has collaborated with James Patterson on the bestselling Women's Murder Club, Private, and Confessions series. She lives with her husband in New York State.
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- Publisher : Grand Central Publishing; Reissue edition (March 31, 2020)
- Language : English
- Mass Market Paperback : 384 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1538731606
- ISBN-13 : 978-1538731604
- Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.2 x 1.2 x 7.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #205,879 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7,798 in Police Procedurals (Books)
- #9,812 in Murder Thrillers
- #12,190 in Women Sleuths (Books)
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About the authors
Maxine Paetro is an American author who has been published since 1979. Paetro has collaborated with best-selling author James Patterson on the Women’s Murder Club novel series and standalone novels.
From 1975 until 1987, Paetro was a recruiter and EVP creative department manager at several large New York City advertising agencies. In 1979, Paetro published her first book, How to Put Your Book Together and Get a Job in Advertising, which received its fourth revision in August 2010. This non-fiction work has been described as “the advertising industry bible and ultimate insider's guide to getting in and getting noticed"".
Between 1986 and 1992, she published three novels: Manshare, Baby Dreams, and Windfall. In 1993, she collaborated with Dodd Darin to write the biography Dream Lovers: The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee.
In 2004, she began the first of more than two dozen collaborations with best-selling author James Patterson, co-writing 4th of July for the Women’s Murder Club series. Paetro explains in an interview that she and Patterson (who had also worked in advertising before becoming a full-time writer) had known each other since the 1970s. According to British newspaper The Sunday Times, of authors with the most titles to be at number one on The Sunday Times bestseller list over the past forty years, she ranks #16 with eleven separate titles in the #1 position.
Her garden, Broccoli Hall, has been featured in national magazines including House & Garden, Victoria, Country Garden and Country Homes. Broccoli Hall is on the Garden Conservancy Open Days Program. See Broccoli Hall www.broccolihall.com. Paetro is breeding a rare type of koi, the "elusive ki shusui." www.kishusui.com.
Paetro is married to former surety bond executive, John A. Duffy, the now founder and CEO of consulting company, Manhattan Bridge, LLC.
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JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 375 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.
James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, Dog Diaries and Max Einstein series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.
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As the book begins Lindsay and Joe are accompanying a friend, Anna, in to testify against a "red-faced hog" monster (ya gotta love that), but that is where the flashback begins. In the flashback Joe meets Anna for the first time as she sits by the side of the road disheveled and sobbing. She had just seen a man who had brutalized her several years before and had tried to chase him down on her bike until she had crashed. Lindsay is hot on the trail of three missing teachers from a local high end private school. To her surprise, not so much ours, this chase finds her following the trail into the seedier side of town searching for her next serial murderer.
There are probably some things they could have done better, but really this book is much better than the last few and I was very pleased to have ordered it early. It was an easy way to get Lindsay and Joe back on common ground without having to rehash all of the troubles from the last two books and the affairs, so that was a really nice relief.
UPDATE:
On further reflection I probably should mention that this book does contain some graphic scenes of a sexual and abusive nature. However, as a survivor of sexual assault it did not cause me any distress. If that is something that may affect you in a negative way you may want to use caution in selecting this book.
Contains some inappropriate language (yes several F-bombs). [Note to Ms. Paetro: They are not necessary. The preview for the next book is already full of f-bombs, but I read this series because it did not have them.]
I loved the ever growing suspense. The mass of vivid depiction of brutality; however, might cause some readers a grinding of the teeth. The story is well written, characters well-defined and a storyline that is definitely a gripping thriller. This narrative has some despicable characters, and it has some haunting twists and turns. Some of the characters endure unspeakable torture, so hold on if those things are bothersome.
I was a bit confused at the beginning of the tale because it started with present day, and quickly shifted back five years to the very early period of Lindsay and Joe’s marriage. Slightly perplexing, but the kinks of the time frame cleared fairly readily.
San Franciso Homicide Police Sargent, Lindsay Boxer, and her new husband, FBI special agent Joe Molinori, along with their individual staffs, are working hard on separate cases.
Joe is working on positive ID and arrest of a wartime criminal known as the Butcher of Djoba, Slobodan Petrović, a Bosnian terrorist military officer who is a man with a history of heinous war crimes including mass executions, rapes and torture. One of his victims, who now lives in San Francisco, has seen the Butcher of Djoba, even though he was officially thought dead years ago. The tale takes the reader on a rather suspenseful journey that includes kidnapping, rape, and murders.
Lindsay is working on a case involving the disappearance of three school teachers. What they do not immediately realize is that the two cases may somehow be connected.
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and a nice suprise at the end was a teaser for the 19th book due out in October 2019 a lot quicker than normal


Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 9, 2019
and a nice suprise at the end was a teaser for the 19th book due out in October 2019 a lot quicker than normal


It seems to be a book of two halves to begin with, then it links together, I like the short chapters that he uses, because I can ratin my reading. I do not like to read for too long especially at night and this way suited the style of the story in this case.
Felt this one missed the Murder Club, we do not see much of the members apart from Claire, but no matter, it is a really good read, with a good ending. Not entirely unexpected but didn't worry me I was sorry when it did end.
Recommended, but I hope they are back to normal as a couple with a baby in the next one!


This installment of the WMC is a step back in time, as Lindsay et al. relay the story of Bosnian war criminal, Slobodan Petrovic, and how they managed to catch him 5 years ago.
The novel focuses on two distinct storylines - that of Lindsay and the three missing teachers, and that of Joe and Anna Sotovina, the Bosnian woman he stumbled over after she'd discovered Petrovic was living in the same town as her. Why is this important, you may ask? Well, Petrovic destroyed Anna's family and tried his best to destroy her.
It soon becomes apparent that the two 'cases' and linked and the novel moves at a pace that keeps you on the edge of your seat as you wonder if Lindsay and Rich will find the missing teachers in time and whether Anna will end up at Petrovic's mercy once more.
This tale makes me think of a prequel, as it steps back in time, filling us in on a case that we hadn't heard of before, making the characters even more real to us by showing us they are more than just the cases that the novels share with us.
Looking forward to 19th Christmas and all that it may bring!
