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Women's Murder Club (novel Series)
''Women's Murder Club'' is a series of mystery novels by American author James Patterson. The books are set in San Francisco and feature an ensemble of lead characters. The books have been adapted into a made-for-TV movie, a television series and several games. Details Set in San Francisco, the novels follow a group of women from different professions relating to investigating crime as they work together to solve murders. The series follows the women through their personal issues, including Lindsay Boxer's medical issues, marriage, and pregnancy. The main characters were originally Lindsay Boxer (police officer), Cindy Thomas (reporter), Claire Washburn (medical examiner), and Jill Bernhardt, but later in the series, defense attorney, Yuki Castellano, is introduced. Every book except 7th Heaven and 10th Anniversary were #1 New York Times Best Sellers. A New York Times article states that Patterson set The Women's Murder Club in San Francisco to gain more fans on the West Coast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st To Die
''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. The series is about four friends who pool their skills together to crack San Francisco's toughest murder cases. 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. Plot summary 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". Book One begins with David and Melanie Brandt, freshly married, in their hotel room at the Grand Hyatt. A man outside the door calls "Champagne" and David opens the door. The man, Phillip Campbell, then violently kills the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxine Paetro
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. Biography 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 2005, she began the first of more than thirty collaborations with best-selling author James Patters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Games Of Passion
A game is a structured type of play usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or video games) or art (such as games involving an artistic layout such as mahjong, solitaire, or some video games). Games have a wide range of occasions, reflecting both the generality of its concept and the variety of its play. Games are sometimes played purely for enjoyment, sometimes for achievement or reward as well. They can be played alone, in teams, or online; by amateurs or by professionals. The players may have an audience of non-players, such as when people are entertained by watching a chess championship. On the other hand, players in a game may constitute their own audience as they take their turn to play. Often, part of the entertainment for children playing a game is deciding who is part of their audience and who participates as a player. A toy and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GameFAQs
GameFAQs is a video gaming website that hosts guides and other resources, as well as an active Internet forum, message board forum. It was created in November 1995 by Jeff Veasey and has been owned by Fandom (website), Fandom, Inc. since October 2022. Allen "SBAllen" Tyner was lead Admin for twenty years until stepping down on October 18, 2023. The site is currently run by Community Manager "DToast" and Contributor Lead "ZoopSoul". The site has a database of video game information, Strategy guide, walkthroughs, FAQs, cheat codes, reviews, saved game, game saves, Video game packaging, box art images, and screenshots, almost all of which are submitted by volunteer contributors. It covers game systems made as far back as the 1980s to current day modern video game console, consoles as well as personal computer game, computer games and mobile games. GameFAQs also hosts an active Internet forum, message board community, which has a separate discussion board for each game in the site's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angie Harmon
Angela Michelle Harmon (born August 10, 1972) is an American actress and model. She won ''Seventeen'''s modeling contest in 1987 at age 15, signed with IMG Models, and appeared on covers for magazines such as ''Cosmopolitan'' and ''Esquire''. Her acting breakthrough came with the role of Ryan McBride on ''Baywatch Nights'' (1995–1997), and she earned four Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for playing Abbie Carmichael on ''Law & Order'' (1998–2001). Harmon also appeared in a number of film roles, which notably include voicing Barbara Gordon in the animated '' Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker'' (2000) and Ronica Miles in '' Agent Cody Banks'' (2003). Following the roles of Rose in the acclaimed-film '' Seraphim Falls'' (2006) and Lindsay Boxer in the short-lived series ''Women's Murder Club'' (2007–2008), Harmon earned praise for playing Jane Rizzoli on the TNT series '' Rizzoli & Isles'' (2010–2016), and won the Gracie Award for Outstanding Female Actor in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Murder Club (TV Series)
''Women's Murder Club'' is an American police procedural and legal drama that aired on ABC from October 12, 2007, to May 13, 2008. The series is set in San Francisco, California, and is based on the series of novels by the same name written by James Patterson. Series creators Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain also served as executive producers alongside Patterson, Joe Simpson, Brett Ratner, and R. Scott Gemmill. The latter also served as showrunner, with Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts co-executive producing. The pilot was directed by Scott Winant. Produced by 20th Century Fox Television, the series first aired on Friday nights at 9:00PM Eastern/8:00PM Central. On October 31, 2007, ABC ordered an additional three scripts. On March 31, 2008, it was announced that ''Women's Murder Club'' would return with three new episodes, beginning on Tuesday April 29, 2008, at 10:00PM Eastern/9:00PM Central, replacing ''Boston Legal''. On May 12, 2008, ABC confirmed that the series wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Pollan
Tracy Jo Pollan Fox (born June 22, 1960) is an American actress and author. She is known for playing Ellen Reed on the NBC sitcom ''Family Ties'' (1985–1987) and Harper Anderson on the crime drama series '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' (2000), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Pollan married actor and activist Michael J. Fox in 1988, and has since occasionally acted. In film, she has starred in the dramas ''Baby It's You'' (1983) and ''Promised Land'' (1987), the tragedy '' Bright Lights, Big City'' (1988) and the crime drama ''A Stranger Among Us'' (1992). Her other television credits include two episodes of ''Spin City'' (1997–1998) and TV films such as '' First to Die'' (2003), ''Natalee Holloway'' (2009) and '' Justice for Natalee Holloway'' (2011). Early life Pollan was born to a Jewish family on June 22, 1960 on Long Island, and raised in Woodbury. Her parents are Corky and Stephen Pollan, and she has a brother, Michael. She atten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First To Die
''First to Die'' is a 2003 television film based on the 2001 novel of the same name by James Patterson. The film stars Tracy Pollan, Pam Grier, Angie Everhart and Carly Pope as a group of women team up to investigate a string of murders. Plot Homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer (Tracy Pollan) teams up with three other professional women to investigate a serial killer who targets brides on their honeymoon. While trying to solve the biggest case of her career, she finds herself falling for her partner (Gil Bellows) and battling a life-threatening illness. Cast * Tracy Pollan as Detective Lindsay Boxer * Gil Bellows as Chris Raleigh * Carly Pope as Cindy Thomas * Megan Gallagher as Jill Barnett * Angie Everhart as Chessy Jenks * Mitch Pileggi as Warren Jacobi * Sean Young as Joanna Wade * Jerry Wasserman as Lt. Roth * Pam Grier as Claire Washburn * Byron Mann as Derek Lee * Robert Patrick as Nicholas Jenks * Kristina Copeland as Merrill Cale * John Reardon as David Brandt * Sonya Sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 9th Judgment
''Women's Murder Club'' is a series of mystery novels by American author James Patterson. The books are set in San Francisco and feature an ensemble of lead characters. The books have been adapted into a made-for-TV movie, a television series and several games. Details Set in San Francisco, the novels follow a group of women from different professions relating to investigating crime as they work together to solve murders. The series follows the women through their personal issues, including Lindsay Boxer's medical issues, marriage, and pregnancy. The main characters were originally Lindsay Boxer (police officer), Cindy Thomas (reporter), Claire Washburn (medical examiner), and Jill Bernhardt, but later in the series, defense attorney, Yuki Castellano, is introduced. Every book except 7th Heaven and 10th Anniversary were #1 New York Times Best Sellers. A New York Times article states that Patterson set The Women's Murder Club in San Francisco to gain more fans on the West Coast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grisham
John Ray Grisham Jr. (; born February 8, 1955) is an American novelist, lawyer, and former politician, known for his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the Academy of Achievement, American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three anglophone authors to have sold two million copies on the first printing. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He practiced criminal law for about a decade and served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1983 to 1990. Grisham's first novel, ''A Time to Kill (Grisham novel), A Time to Kill,'' was published in June 1989, four years after he began writing it. It was later adapted into the 1996 feature film of the A Time to Kill (1996 film), same name. Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
