NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Rizzoli & Isles now a series on TNT In the murky shadows of Boston’s Chinatown lies a severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed in black, her head nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair—not human—cling to her body. They are homicide cop Jane Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for … Jane Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make the startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel. Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead. One woman connected to that massacre is still alive—a mysterious martial arts master who is now the target of someone, or something, deeply and relentlessly evil. Cracking a crime with bone-chilling echoes of an ancient Chinese legend, Rizzoli and Isles must outwit an unseen enemy with centuries of cunning—and a swift, avenging blade.
Don’t miss Tess Gerritsen’s short story “Freaks” in the back of the eBook.
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Maura Isles and Jane Rizzoli are an incredible team! Love them and can’t wait for the next book!
If you liked the TV series, you will like the book. Her style of writing grabs your interest and doesn’t let go.
Enjoy the Rizzoli and Isles Series. Always entertaining.
Very interesting….
Love anything from Tess Geritson! She really delivers!
I’ve aiways love her books. You never know who the killer is until the end. I like that. i like a mystery to keep you on your edge until the end. Very few writers have that talent to do that with their writing. Thank-you for these escapes onto books of crime mystery’s.
Page turner! I was engrossed in the story!
Great mystery, in-depth. Love the ending!
Series makes you feel there
It has been several years since I read this book, but I remember enjoying it very much, thinking at the time that it was my favorite in the series thus far.
4.5*
This is a riveting mystery that I found hard to put down. I read it in two days. It starts with the discovery of a severed hand and a gun in an alley, and then a body w/o a hand on a roof. The dead woman was dressed in black and had no id–all suggesting a professional killer. The car belonging to the dead woman is found and it has a handheld …