This is a flashback book to the time before Joe cheated. Before Julie was born. This can be a little disorienting at first, but once you get into the book it does not take long to adjust. IF I had one complaint it might be to have known this was coming so that I could go back and reread the 9th through the 11th books. However, this seems to slip seamlessly between the old stories with little mention or overlap into the previous books.
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.]
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You guys know I’m a big James Patterson fan and have read every Women’s Murder Club since they started! Lindsay Boxer is a great character. The 18th Abduction was a little different than the normal series though. The group of women that she usually works with were barely in the story which was a bummer because I always look forward to when they all work together to solve whatever crime has hit San Francisco. This one had her husband Joe as a more predominant character. Also, this one was more violent than I remember any of the other ones being. It was good just not my favorite.Three teachers go out one night after work and completely vanish. Lindsay and her team are on the case but there are no clues to help them. Joe, Lindsay’s husband, has his own intense case when a woman claims she saw a war criminal living right in the city, and she knows it’s him because she was one of his victims that was able to escape. Lindsay and Joe are both engrossed in their investigations and hope that all the dots will connect, and they can solve both of these investigations before the three women are never heard from again or this notorious war criminal strikes again!
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lauz83
fantastic
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 9, 2019
lauz83
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
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