Women's Murder Club Premier Knocks 'Em Dead

The Women's Murder Club, a new crime thriller series based on the best selling novels of author James Patterson, premiered Friday, October 12, 2007. The series centers around four successful career women - - a homicide inspector, an assistant district attorney, a medical examiner, and a crime reporter. They ladies all join together to solve murder cases and eventually dub themselves the women's murder club.

In the opener, Lindsay Boxer, played by the incomparable Angie Harmon, has a body literally drop into her lap, so to speak. She, of course, is right there ready to solve the murder as quickly as possible. However, she keeps running into a nosy reporter by the name of Cindy Thomas, played by Aubrey Dollar. It seems that Cindy is also hot on the investigative trail. Although not yet a part of the group, she will eventually become its fourth member.

As is often true in real crimes, the obvious suspect, Walton James, an old "friend" of the victim, turns out to be a dead end and both Lindsay and Cindy are back to square one. While she is loathe to admit it, Lindsay is taken with Cindy's ability to cut through the bull and get to the heart of the matter.

The case takes yet another wrong turn when it appears that local restaurateur, Miles Van Aiken, was having an affair with the murder victim. Further investigation shows that it wasn't his first. But after questioning him, Lindsay isn't convinced that he is the killer either.

When the original suspect Walton James also turns up dead, Cindy does some investigative work and finds an interesting tie to a particular homeless gentleman, the restaurant, and a local free clinic, which as it happens is run by the wife of the restaurateur. The problem is, the records recordered at the clinic for the homeless man appear to be forged; a matter uncovered by the murder victim.