
The second pair of bodies are found, and after Lindsay is told she has a new partner due to the sensitivity of the case, Cindy, Lindsay, and medical examiner Claire Washburn join forces to attempt to solve the case. In that scene she is introduced to Cindy Thomas, covering the story. During the appointment, she is called to the crime scene of a double murder at the Grand Hyatt. Throughout the book, Lindsay struggles with the physical side-effects of getting blood transfusions for Negli's and the emotional aspect of having a life-threatening disease. Roy Orenthaler, tells Lindsay that she has a rare, and deadly, blood disease called Negli's aplastic anemia. The book then cuts to Inspector Lindsay Boxer in her general practitioner's office. The man, Phillip Campbell, then violently kills the bride and groom and immorally brutalizes the corpse of Melanie.

A man outside the door calls "Champagne" and David opens the door. The prologue introduces the main character Inspector Lindsay Boxer, San Francisco P.D., who is in a depression and holding a gun to her head as a result of losing a love interest in a case called "The Honeymoon Murders".īook One begins with David and Melanie Brandt, freshly married, in their hotel room at the Grand Hyatt. The women each have different jobs: Lindsay Boxer, a homicide inspector for the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn, a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt, an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas, a reporter who just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. The series is about four friends who pool their skills together to crack San Francisco's toughest murder cases.


1st to Die is a 2001 crime novel by American author James Patterson that is the first book in the Women's Murder Club series.
