26 Beauties

The 26th book in the Women’s Murder Club series by James Patterson, 26 Beauties, brings back DI Lindsay Boxer who is celebrating Claire Washburn’s appointment, whose party is interrupted by a frantic father whose daughter has gone missing. Lindasy herself has been searching for a missing woman as well, and while she takes over the investigation, more and more such cases pop up randomly in San Francisco. Are those cases isolated or there is a more sinister connection between them? Now there are 26 missing women, and Lindsay and her club have to find them before number rises to even higher and the stakes are upped once again.

26 Beauties

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by James Patterson

Women’s Murder Club series #26

published May 2026

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A celebration is cut short when a concerned father crashes Detective Inspector Lindsay Boxer’s party. His daughter is missing – and she’s not the only one.

DI Lindsay Boxer has been tracking a chilling pattern: a Jane Doe washed ashore, a body in Golden Gate Park, a string of missing women across San Francisco. Someone is hunting the city’s most vulnerable, and the count keeps rising.

When Lindsay reaches out to Interpol, their warning is stark: these cases are nearly impossible to solve, and the women are almost never found alive.

SFPD’s Sergeant Lindsay Boxer’s best friend, Claire Washburn, is named medical examiner of the year. But an uninvited guest crashes the Women’s Murder Club’s party: a concerned father seeking investigative reporter Cindy Thomas’s help in locating his missing daughter. And she’s not the only one. Lindsay’s been investigating the deaths of a Jane Doe washed up on a nearby beach, and a young woman found in Golden Gate Park.

What if all these cases are connected? The answers lie with the 26 Beauties on the run and in the wind.

Part of the Women’s Murder Club series – see the full reading order on the James Patters Books in Order page.