Books by Maxine Paetro

Both the freedom and the life of San Francisco PD Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer are at risk in this fourth installment of the bestselling Women's Murder Club series. An arrest goes terribly wrong, forcing Lindsay to fire her weapon in circumstances that lead to official accusations of police brutality. In an attempt to escape the reporters' unwelcome attentions, Lindsay seeks refuge at her sister's home in Half Moon Bay, only to be confronted by a series of brutal murders whose perpetrators soon target Lindsay.

As the fifth installment in the bestselling thriller series the Women's Murder Club opens, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the Club's new member, Yuki Castellano, watch in horror as Yuki's mother Keiko crumples to the pavement on their way to lunch. Meanwhile, a San Francisco hospital worker calling himself Night Walker, obsessed with witnessing people's deaths, quietly murders a series of patients expected to recover. Since no one can determine the victims' cause of death, it seems at first like a terrifying chain of coincidences. The Women's Murder Club investigates, stymied by the hospital's desperation to keep the matter quiet, and spurred on by their fear that Keiko could be next to fall prey to the mysterious "epidemic."

When patients mysteriously take a turn for the worse at San Francisco Medical Center, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club must face an unspeakable menace, landing them in what could be the most terrifying situation they have yet to encounter. Reprint.

When one of the Women's Murder Club members is left struggling to survive after a brutal attack, her three companions work to keep her attacker behind bars, while new San Francisco police department partner Lindsay Boxer investigates a series of kidnappings in which children and their nannies are being abducted without ransom demands. Reprint.

The Women's Murder Club must track down a group of arsonists. This is the seventh installment in James Patterson's bestselling suspense series.

Cowritten by America's #1 best-selling author, the latest entry into the popular mystery series begins with the murder of the perfect couple, and no sooner is detective Lindsay Boxer is on the case than the body of a preacher is found, testing the limits of the Women's Murder Club as sparks fly between Cindy and her partner, detective Rich Conklin. Simultaneous.

More than one hundred large landscape studies capture forms and textures of nature in shades of gray.

After undergoing an abortion while in college, Stevie, now a successful talk-show host, must reevaluate her life and career when her old college boyfriend reenters her life.

The son of Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin, using his own memories, interviews, letters, and rare photographs, chronicles his parents' lives, which were full of illness, family secrets, and the horror of childhood abuse.

In order to write an article on the shortage of eligible men using her own idea of mansharing, Hanna, a magazine editor, turns to her friend Mahell, with a plan for sharing her own longtime lover not knowing that she is too vulnerable to handle it.

Experiencing their worst nightmare, the parents of Kim McDaniels--a ravishingly beautiful swimsuit model--receive a phone call from a sinister man informing them that their daughter has fallen into the wrong hands. Without a moment's hesitation, the McDanielses are on their way to Hawaii, where Kim was on a photo shoot. Also arriving in the tropical paradise in search of Kim is Ben Hawkins, a successful L.A. journalist and crime novelist. His motives are careerist for coming, but he is soon swept up in a frightening pursuit of a demented killer.

A bequest of seven million dollars and a Great Gatsby-like mansion on Long Island spells trouble for New York literary agent Harriet Braintree's relationship with her stockbroker boyfriend, Dean, until fortune intervenes once again.