Synopsis: "I don't think I'd like your job, Dr Isles. Why do you choose it? Why the dead over the living?" "Because they deserve attention. They want us to know why they died..." Within the walls of a cloistered convent, a scene of unspeakable carnage is discovered. On the snow lie two nuns, one dead, one critically injured - victims of a seemingly motiveless, brutally savage attack.
As medical examiner Maura Isles' autopsy of the murder victim yields a shocking surprise, the case takes a sudden and disturbing twist. The body of another woman has been found. And someone has gone to a lot of trouble to remove her face, hands and feet.
As long buried secrets are revealed so Dr Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli find themselves part of an investigation that leads to an awful, dawning realization of the killer's identity...
I am pleased to be able to get back to Rizzoli and Isles, this being the third book in the series. From the very first sentence, this book has gripped me into its horror, grimness and darkness so much so that I cannot wait to turn the next page until I get to the last page. As is expected, Gerritsen is on top form with her prose and her depictions of both the major and minor characters. The story starts out as a mystery confined to a small Boston convent but eventually, turns out to have international implications traced to a catastrophe in India. Unlike the first two novels, it is Dr. Isles and not Rizzoli who plays the front role in both her professional and personal life in the book. This is a brilliant book with a top notch plot. I highly recommend it and look forward to #4.
Rating: 5/5 (Riveting)
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