The 8th Confession
{{Short description|Book by James Patterson}}
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| author = James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
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| country = United States
| language = English
| series = Women's Murder Club
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| genre = Crime novel
| publisher = Little, Brown and Company
| pub_date = April 27, 2009
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| isbn = 978-0-316-01876-0
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| preceded_by = 7th Heaven
| followed_by = The 9th Judgment
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The 8th Confession is the eighth book in the Women's Murder Club series featuring Lindsay Boxer by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.{{Cite web |date=29 June 2009 |title=The 8th Confession by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781600245404 |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=Publishers Weekly}} This novel was released on April 27, 2009.{{Cn|date=February 2024}}
Plot
Stacey Glenn, a dropout girl from the high society is convicted of multiple counts of murder by Yuki Castellano - the lawyer of the Murder Club. Glenn is killed and beheaded once she arrives in prison.
The major plot develops around two cases: a homeless man who goes by the name of Bagman Jesus is beaten to death and then targeted with multiple shots; Linsday and her friends investigate the case but they initially find a wall of silence defending him; many people living in the slums where he lived seem to consider him a sort of a saint.
Boxer's team finally gives Bagman Jesus an identity; he is Rodney Brooker, a meth dealer who provoked a terrible explosion with a school bus he used as a drug laboratory; he was not loved by the people who knew him but on the contrary he was feared and hated; he had been actually killed by his mates; who also planned to put the blame one on the other in order to make all confessions void and impossible to be used in a courtroom.
Then there's a girl, whom the reader comes to meet as "Pet Girl", who kills rich people without leaving any trace behind; the corpses seem immaculate and intact. She kills multiple couples until Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin manage to trace her while she's trying another murder; her victims were killed with poison from lethal snakes; one of them bites Rich; but he manages to survive and Pet Girl is arrested.
In the end, she's revealed to be Norma Johnson, daughter of a man who had taught her how to manage dangerous snakes but wanted to throw her out of his house since she was hated by his lover; Norma had killed him and from then on she had become a serial killer out of revenge.
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Category:Women's Murder Club (novel series)