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| Author | James Patterson |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Women's Murder Club |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | March 2001 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 462 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0-316-66600-8 |
| Followed by | 2nd Chance |
1st to Die is a 2001 crime novel by American author James Patterson that is the first book in the Women's Murder Club series. The series is about four friends who pool their skills together to crack San Francisco's toughest murder cases. The women each have different jobs: Lindsay Boxer, a homicide inspector for the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn, a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt, an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas, a reporter who just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.