23rd Midnight

A serial killer behind bars. A copycat killer on the loose… (Women’s Murder Club 23)

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Brought to you by Penguin.

Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke behind bars. Now a new killer has recreated Burke's most infamous crimes-and disappeared without a trace.

Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail.

Reporter Cindy Thomas put Burke on the bestseller list, in her true-crime book about the case.

An obsessed fan is studying every detail-and committing fresh horrors that carry Burke's signature.

Now Lindsay's tracking an elusive suspect, one who's penning a deadly playbook featuring Cindy's name in blood-red ink.

© James Patterson 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

Critic reviews

Smart characters, shocking twists... you count down to the very last page to discover what will happen next (Lisa Gardner)

I couldn't turn the pages quick enough. Great plot, fantastic storytelling and character that spring off the page - all the right ingredients for a thriller (Heidi Perks)

Terrific, high-octane, really pacy... every scene is a film - every character real, and every plot point leaves us breathless (Jo Spain)

Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried... there's no stopping his imagination

A writer with an unusual skill at thriller plotting

Patterson is in a class by himself

No one gets this big without natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades (Lee Child)

James Patterson is the boss. End of. (Ian Rankin)

Patterson boils a scene down to a single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind (Michael Connelly)

Why Cindy still here?

This was one was the better ones but I had taken a really long break because Cindy was becoming intolerable. I had hoped she might be written out by now or evolved but no- she’s as arrogant and obnoxious and still here.