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The Women's Murder Club:
  • 4 ounces Ketel One vodka
  • 1/2 ounce triple sec or flavored orange liqueur
  • 2 ounces freshly squeezed blood orange juice
  • 2 blood orange slices
  • Dash of orange bitters
DIRECTIONS:
Combine all ingredients in a martini shaker except the orange slices with a good amount of ice. Shake for a few seconds, then strain the the drink into a martini glass. Garnish with the orange slices. (Optional) Dampen the martini glass rim and dip lightly in white sugar. Click here for printable version


CHARACTER PROFILES:

LINDSAY BOXER
The Detective

Meet Lindsay Boxer, a homicide detective for the San Francisco Police Department. Lindsay is 5'10" tall. She was a sociology major and graduated from San Francisco State (to which she transferred from Berkeley when she found out that her mother had breast cancer). She loves beer and butterscotch praline ice cream. She has a border collie named Martha. She enjoys running, loves to read travel books and mysteries and her secret hobby is Tai Chi.

Lindsay is divorced, has a younger sister named Cat and a father named Marty, who was also a member of the SFPD. Marty left Lindsay's mother when Lindsay was 13.

One thing that very few people know about Lindsay is that she has a tattoo of a one-inch gecko on her left buttock.

CINDY THOMAS
The Reporter

Meet Cindy Thomas, pretty, blonde and city cool. She's an up and coming reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Cindy is a graduate of the University of Michigan where she was a sociology major. She loves yoga, jazz music and, like her friend Lindsay Boxer, loves to read travel books and mysteries, she's even a member of a book club. She also has a tattoo, but unlike Lindsay, she has two small G-clefs on her shoulder.

CLAIRE WASHBURN
The Medical Examiner

Meet Claire Washburn, Claire is black and heavyset; she always jokes, "I'm in shape...round's a shape." Claire is wise, confident, kind and the Chief Medical Examiner for San Francisco. She is married to Edmund, a kettle drum-player in the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Claire and Edmund have two teenage sons and a young daughter named Ruby Rose. Her tattoo: an outline of a butterfly just below her waist. She also goes by the nickname "Butterfly" and has it embroidered on her lab coat at work.

YUKI CASTELLANO
The Attorney

Yuki Castellano is an ambitious, young San Francisco district attorney who is passionate, brilliant, given to speaking at 90 miles per hour, and sometimes wears a magenta red streak in her glossy, black, shoulder-length hair. Her parents met at a graduate school mixer for foreign students and married within three weeks. Her mother is Japanese and her father Italian-American. Yuki's favorite drink, when out with the other members of the Club, is a Germain-Robin sidecar.
The Women's Murder Club
Lindsay Boxer, Cindy Thomas, Claire Washburn and Jill Bernhardt, the stars of 1st to Die, 2nd Chance are the founding members of the Women's Murder Club. Later, in 3rd Degree, Yuki Castellano joins the Club. Together, they solve crimes together in their home city of San Francisco, and often get together to talk about clues and life over Mexican food and drinks at Susie's. Their 7th case, 7th Heaven, is on sale now.
 
7th Heaven
7th Heaven
The beloved son of California's former governor disappears into the ether. The angel-faced prostitute Junie Moon admits to the crime and Yuki Castellano is faced with the media circus surrounding her prosecution. But is Junie Moon really to blame? At the same time, a serial arsonist is torching some of San Franciso's most beautiful homes and leaving it's occupants to suffer terrible deaths in the flames. It doesn't add up, but Lindsay Boxer is charged with finding the truth.
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The 6th Target
The 6th Target
Someone opens fire on unsuspecting pedestrians and one of the Women's Murder Club is caught in the middle. As she struggles for her life, the others must work fast to track down the madman. In another part of the city, somebody is targeting children and their nannies. As the kidnappers await their ransom, Lindsay and company are faced with finding the mastermind before more children are harmed.
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The 5th Horseman
The 5th Horseman
Patients at San Francisco medical Center are mysteriously dying hours before they are to be released with a clean bill of health. Lindsay and the rest of the Women's Murder Club begin their own investigation into the hospital, but the list of suspects proves to be as long as the list of patients.
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4th of July
4th of July
After an arrest goes awry, Lindsay finds herself facing police brutality charges. But taking time off to cool down proves harder then she thought. As she heads out of town, Lindsay finds herself in the middle of a killing spree, and must locate the killers before they find her. Back in San Francisco, the Women's Murder Club helps to get Lindsay through the trial...but will she be found innocent?
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3rd Degree
3rd Degree
Lindsay Boxer and friends must track down a deadly terror group who begins their killing spree by blowing up an expensive townhouse–with the family still inside. In the meantime, a member of the club may be in some trouble of her own and Lindsay could be too late to save her.
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2nd Chance
2nd Chance
When family members of San Francisco cops are found dead, Detective Lindsay Boxer, Medical examiner Claire Washburn, reporter Cindy Thomas and Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt are faced with a tough case. As the killer looks for his next victim, the women must quickly track him down before he kills again.
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1st To Die
1st To Die
A serial killer is stalking and murdering newlyweds on their honeymoon. San Francisco Homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer takes the case and along the way meets three other women–a lawyer, a reporter, and the city medical examiner. Joining forces to solve this gruesome crime, the Women's Murder Club is born.
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