THERE'S almost too much going on in this sixth novel in the Women's Club series, with a body count that just keeps growing and growing.

In a dramatic shoot-out at a ferry dock the death list stands at three, and despite a man giving himself up for the slayings, Det Lindsay Boxer is still under the cosh.

A child is abducted, there are more suspicious deaths and Boxer discovers yet more abductees.

This is a world in which death isn't waiting round the corner - he's right there knocking on your door.