James Patterson - 10th Anniversary

For every secret,

Detective Lindsay Boxers long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals but that the victim may be keeping secrets.

For every lie,

At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life a woman who has been accused of murdering her husband in front of her two young children. Yukis career rests on a guilty verdict, so when Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant, she is forced to choose. Should she trust her best friend or follow her instinct?

Theres a different way to die.

Lindsays every move is watched by her new boss, Lieutenant Jackson Brady, and when the pressure to find the baby starts interfering with her new marriage to Joe, she wonders if shell ever be able to start a family of her own.

With James Pattersons white-hot speed and unquenchable action, 10th Anniversary is the most deliciously chilling Womens Murder Club book ever.

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Published by Century, 2011

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For Isabelle Patterson
and Madeline Paetro

Also by James Patterson

ALEX CROSS NOVELS

Along Came a Spider

Kiss the Girls

Jack and Jill

Cat and Mouse

Pop Goes the Weasel

Roses are Red

Violets are Blue

Four Blind Mice

The Big Bad Wolf

London Bridges

Mary, Mary

Cross

Double Cross

Cross Country

Alex Crosss Trial (with Richard DiLallo)

I, Alex Cross

Cross Fire

DETECTIVE MICHAEL BENNETT SERIES

Step on a Crack (with Michael Ledwidge)

Run for Your Life (with Michael Ledwidge)

Worst Case (with Michael Ledwidge)

Tick Tock (with Michael Ledwidge)

PRIVATE SERIES

Private (with Maxine Paetro)

Private London (with Mark Pearson, to be published June 2011)

STAND-ALONE THRILLERS

Sail (with Howard Roughan)

Swimsuit (with Maxine Paetro)

Dont Blink (with Howard Roughan)

Postcard Killers (with Liza Marklund)

Toys (with Neil McMahon, to be published April 2011)

Now You See Her (with Michael Ledwidge, to be published August 2011)

NON-FICTION

Torn Apart (with Hal and Cory Friedman)

The Murder of King Tut (with Martin Dugard)

ROMANCE

Sundays at Tiffanys (with Gabrielle Charbonnet)

THE WOMENS MURDER CLUB SERIES

1st to Die

2nd Chance (with Andrew Gross)

3rd Degree (with Andrew Gross)

4th of July (with Maxine Paetro)

The 5th Horseman (with Maxine Paetro)

The 6th Target (with Maxine Paetro)

7th Heaven (with Maxine Paetro)

8th Confession (with Maxine Paetro)

9th Judgement (with Maxine Paetro)

FAMILY OF PAGE-TURNERS

MAXIMUM RIDE SERIES

The Angel Experiment

Schools Out Forever

Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

The Final Warning

Max

Fang

Angel

MAXIMUM RIDE MANGA

Volume 1 (with NaRae Lee)

Volume 2 (with NaRae Lee)

Volume 3 (with NaRae Lee)

DANIEL X SERIES

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X (with Michael Ledwidge)

Daniel X: Alien Hunter Graphic Novel (with Leopoldo Gout)

Daniel X: Watch the Skies (with Ned Rust)

Daniel X: Demons and Druids (with Adam Sadler)

WITCH & WIZARD SERIES

Witch & Wizard (with Gabrielle Charbonnet)

Witch & Wizard: The Gift (with Ned Rust)

For more information about James Pattersons novels, visit www.jamespatterson.co.uk

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Our thanks and gratitude to New York attorney Philip R. Hoffman, Captain Richard J. Conklin of the Stamford, Connecticut, Police Department, and Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk, Medical Examiner of Trumbull County, Ohio, for generously sharing their time and wealth of experience.

Our thanks, too, to our excellent researchers, Ingrid Taylar, Ellie Shurtleff, Melissa Pevy, and Lynn Colomello. And to Mary Jordan, who, as always, manned the control tower.

THIS WAS THE DAY I was getting married.

Our suite at the Ritz in Half Moon Bay was in chaos. My best friends and I had stripped down to our underwear, and our street clothes had been flung over the furniture. Sorbet-colored dresses hung from the moldings and door frames.

The scene looked like a Degas painting of ballerinas before the curtain went up, or maybe a romanticized bordello in the Wild West. Jokes were cracked. Giddiness reigned and then the door opened and my sister Catherine stepped in, wearing her brave face: a tight smile, pain visible at the corners of her eyes.

Whats wrong, Cat? I asked.

Hes not here.

I blinked, tried to ignore the sharp pang of disappointment. I said sarcastically, Well, theres a shock.

Cat was talking about our father, Marty Boxer, who left home when we were kids and failed to show when my mom was dying. Id seen him only twice in the past ten years and hadnt missed him, but after hed told Cat hed come to my wedding, Id had an expectation.