When an 11-year-old girl is shot on the steps of a San Francisco church, hard-as-nails Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer calls a meeting of the Women's Murder Club. Together with ambitious assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, savvy medical examiner Claire Washburn, and Cindy Thomas, a bright young reporter for the Chronicle, Boxer tracks the mystifying killer to a local hate group. But this murder is no one-shot accident. Lindsay's gut tells her it's linked to another death on the other side of town. But how? The murders of an officer and the chief of police lead Lindsay and the "girls" to a new kind of criminal-a serial killer who's targeting anyone with a connection to the police force. Now the race is on to catch this unusually twisted murderer before he strikes again. Could Lindsay and her fellow "clubmates" be next on the demented killer's hit list?--Page 2 and 3 of cover