18th Abduction is the eighteenth novel in the Women's Murder Club novel series[note 3] by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.

[1] San Francisco Police Sergeant Lindsay Boxer is the main character of this book.

The main plot involves three schoolteachers, who suddenly vanish after a night out after school.

A woman who survived a deadly attack on her village in another country many years before comes to Joe with a story that she has seen a war criminal who was involved in this attack in San Francisco.

"[3] This book was number one on The New York Times list of best sellers for Combined Print & E-Book Fiction for the week of May 19, 2019.