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21st birthday
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New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
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408 pages ; 25 cm.
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SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has sworn to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic. As Lindsay prepares to celebrate her own daughter's birthday, she clashes with rising Chief Charlie Clapper over a family case. When a distraught mother pleads with Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, Tara, and baby granddaughter, Lorrie, Cindy immediately loops in SFPD. But Tara's schoolteacher husband, Lucas Burke, tells a conflicting story that paints Tara as a wayward wife, not a missing person. And there's reason to believe he may be telling the truth. While M.E. Claire Washburn harbors theories that run counter to the police investigation of the Burke case, ADA Yuki Castellano sizes Lucas up as a textbook domestic offender -- until he puts forward a theory of his own that unexpectedly connects the dots on a constellation of copycat killings. If what Lucas tells law enforcement has even a grain of truth, there isn't a woman in the state of California who's safe from the reach of such an unspeakable threat.

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Citations

APA Citation (style guide)

Patterson, J., & Paetro, M. (2021). 21st birthday. First edition. New York, Little, Brown and Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Patterson, James, 1947- and Maxine, Paetro. 2021. 21st Birthday. New York, Little, Brown and Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Patterson, James, 1947- and Maxine, Paetro, 21st Birthday. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2021.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Patterson, James and Maxine Paetro. 21st Birthday. First edition. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2021.

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9780316499347, 031649934X

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Sequel to: The 20th victim.
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SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has sworn to defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic. As Lindsay prepares to celebrate her own daughter's birthday, she clashes with rising Chief Charlie Clapper over a family case. When a distraught mother pleads with Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of her daughter, Tara, and baby granddaughter, Lorrie, Cindy immediately loops in SFPD. But Tara's schoolteacher husband, Lucas Burke, tells a conflicting story that paints Tara as a wayward wife, not a missing person. And there's reason to believe he may be telling the truth. While M.E. Claire Washburn harbors theories that run counter to the police investigation of the Burke case, ADA Yuki Castellano sizes Lucas up as a textbook domestic offender -- until he puts forward a theory of his own that unexpectedly connects the dots on a constellation of copycat killings. If what Lucas tells law enforcement has even a grain of truth, there isn't a woman in the state of California who's safe from the reach of such an unspeakable threat.

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995 |a Loaded with m2btab.ltiac in 2021.06
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.b in 2021.05
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.b in 2021.05
995 |a Loaded with Marquis via m2btab.ing by Telluride on 2021.05.11
995 |a Loaded with Marquis via m2btab.ing by garco on 2021.05.11
995 |a Loaded with Marquis via m2btab.ing by garco on 2021.05.11
995 |a Loaded with Marquis via m2btab.ing by garco on 2021.05.11
995 |a Loaded with Marquis via m2btab.ing by garco on 2021.05.11
995 |a Loaded with Marquis via m2btab.ing by garco on 2021.05.11
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.ltiac in 2021.05
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.b in 2021.04
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.acq2 2020.12
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2021.01
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2021.01
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2021.01
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2021.01
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2021.01
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.acq2 in 2021.02
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.acq2 in 2021.02
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2021.02
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2021.02
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2021.02
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2021.02
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2021.02
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2021.03
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.acq2 in 2021.03
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.ven in 2021.03
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2021.04
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.migrate in 2021.04
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.msc in 2021.05
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.ven in 2021.05
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.acq2 in 2021.05
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2021.05
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2021.05
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.ven in 2021.06
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