The Eighth Confession: Large Print edition

The Eighth Confession: Large Print edition by James Patterson. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781607518983.

Fans of Sex and the City ripoffs may best appreciate Pattersons eighth Womens Murder Club novel, his fifth coauthored with Patero (after 7th Heaven). Det. Lindsay Boxer, of the San Francisco police department, is searching for a killer whos knocking off the well-to-do without leaving any signs of violence on the bodies. The investigation is going nowhere until the departments repository of institutional memory recalls a series of unsolved killings from 1982, in which the unidentified perpetrator used a krait, a rare Indian snake, to poison the victims. Meanwhile, Boxers gal pal, journalist Cindy Thomas, is pressing the police to devote resources to a low priority murder-that of a homeless man known as Bagman Jesus, whose real name is a mystery. The romance that develops between Thomas and Boxers hunky partner, Det. Rich Conklin, includes a striking moment when Conklin, magician-like, slips "his hands into the flimsy fabric of her panties, making them disappear."