san francisco

When two young strangers meet by chance on the day of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, they struggle to survive the terror of crumbling buildings, fire, looting, and chaos.

"San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer is loving her life as a new mother. With an attentive husband, a job she loves, plus best friends who can talk about anything from sex to murder, things couldn't be better. Then the FBI sends Lindsay a photo of a killer from her past, and her happy world is shattered. The picture captures a beautiful woman at a stoplight. But all Lindsay sees is the psychopath behind those seductive eyes: Mackie Morales, the most deranged and dangerous mind the Women's Murder Club has ever encountered. In this pulse-racing, emotionally charged novel by James Patterson, the Women's Murder Club must find a killer--before she finds them first" --.

The author presents evidence to support his contention that notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper left Glasgow and London and took up a post as pastor of San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist Church where he continued his grisly work.

Recounts the life and political career of California's first female senator, Dianne Feinstein.

Eighteen-year-old housekeeper Sierra O'Nielle and Joseph Harlan, the handsome son of a wealthy cattle rancher, are contemplating a totally unsuitable romance when they are literally thrown together by the devastating 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.