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3rd Degree

By: James Patterson, Andrew Gross
Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick
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Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood. A town house owned by an Internet millionaire is immediately engulfed in flames, and when Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she finds three people dead. An infant who lived in the house cannot be found; and a mysterious message at the scene leaves Lindsay and the San Francisco Police Department completely baffled.

Then a prominent businessman is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, with another mysterious message left behind by the killer. Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner's office, Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, and Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to help her figure out who is committing these murders, and why they are intent on killing someone every three days.

Even more terrifying, the killer has targeted one of the four friends who call themselves the Women's Murder Club.

©2004 James Patterson. All rights reserved (P)2004 Time Warner Audiobooks, a division of the Time Warner Book Group

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Excellent Story

Captivating story lines that hold your attention with anticipation of the next chapter. Enjoy this series of women’s murder mysteries!

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Voice Changed

Why oh why was Jill's voice changed to a Southern accent??? She's portrayed as ultra sophisticated and urban so why the drawl???

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for some silly reason audible decided to put ridiculous background music to this book!!!!!!!it was so annoying and ruined many crucial part of this story!!!!!!
Another good book written by James Patterson though

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Bit far fetched?

Fun story even if it was a bit over the top. Sad in parts but worth a few hours of listening.

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As always, never disappointing.

Great read. Had a hard time turning this audio ptint down.
i was so sad that you chose to kill Jill!! (Mr. Patterson).
I love felt like it was happening in real life!
Anticipating book 4 of this series....so many series...so little time!

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Best one yet

Finally a narrator who is worthy of telling the story. What I love about this series is the combination of hard, serious, often heart-breaking police work and a softer side to the characters and plots. I love this series and just downloaded two more.

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Good Story, Good Listen

Good story and good narration - very worth buying. Only gave 4 stars as there were a couple of places where the story stalled for me, but on the whole a very good listen. It's the 3rd story in the Ladies Murder Club series, but the 1st for me. Perhaps I should have started with the 1st for more of the characters backgrounds as I'm one who goes for more, however it is a standalone story and not necessary to read priors for the enjoyment of listening.

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I'm really enjoying this series!

I have been listening to this series in sequence. All the narrators have been good, however I am happy to see the same narrator will finish out the remainder of these books.

This story had the same usual twists and equally as enjoyable as the others.

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I wish you didn't use the lord's name in vain so o

I wish you didn't have to use the lord's name in vain as often as you do or if at all

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wonder great listen

love it :) i love the reader she is wonderful and Patterson is great time

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