"1st to Die" written by James Patterson.
The setting in this book is in San Francisco; it is the present day. .
This story was told in first person point of view, through the eyes of Lindsay Boxer. .
The theme in this story would be that you shouldn't count your eggs before the hatch. I say this because when they thought they had the right person, she was only part of the duo. .
There are eight main characters in this story. The first is Lindsay Boxer, a homicide inspector, Claire Washburn, a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt, an assistant D.A., Cindy Thomas, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, Chris Raleigh, another inspector who gets paired up with Lindsay, Medved, the police chief, Nicholas Jenks and his wife. .
The story starts out with a gruesome double murder, followed by three other gruesome murders. Each murder happening on the night of the couples wedding. When following up on the investigations, Lindsay is struck with Nelgi's, which is a life threatening disease. While investigating these murders, she meets Raleigh, whom she soon falls in love with. When they find the suspect guilty, he escapes and when they find him again, they learn the truth about who the real killers are, Nicholas Jenks and his wife were the killers. Before they could catch them, Lindsay tells Chris how much she likes him and they hook up. But before they could really start something, but Jenks killed Chris. At the end, Jenks tries to rape Lindsay, but Lindsay kills him.