Prologue and Part I: The Women's Murder Club - Again Summary

The Prologue and the first twenty-five chapters introduce the reader to an apparently random crime of violence and to the Women's Murder Club, a group of four women who have worked together to solve a previous crime. Lindsay Boxer, now a lieutenant in the San Francisco Homicide Division, has been taking time off following the resolution of an earlier homicide and the death of a lover. This new crime, the shooting of a young black choir member leaving an evening rehearsal at La Salle Heights Church, has brought her back into focus on the responsibility of her position. Upon hearing of the shooting from ex-partner Warren Jacobi, Lindsay rushes to the scene, already filled with police and reporters.

The church is rifled with bullet holes...