Every crime scene tells a story. Some keep you awake at night. Others haunt your dreams. The grisly display homicide cop Jane Rizzoli finds in Boston’s Chinatown will do both.
In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female’s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, her head nearly severed. Two strands of silver hair—not human—cling to her body. They are 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. But one woman connected to that massacre is still alive: a mysterious martial arts master who knows a secret she dares not tell, a secret that lives and breathes in the shadows of Chinatown. A secret that may not even be human. Now she’s the target of someone, or something, deeply and relentlessly evil.
Cracking a crime resonating 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.
REVIEW
This is the first of Tess Gerritsen books that I've read. The book was last months camp bookclub book, I didn't realise at the time that it was the ninth in a series of books (Rizzoli and Isles). But saying that you wouldn't have known that from reading the book - you can read it as a book on it's own. I believe each of the books in the series has a stand-alone story, but I have been advised by a friend who has read all the books in order, that I would get more from following the main characters' - Rizzoli and Isles experiences chronologically.
I really enjoyed this book. I was gripped all the way through, reading about Boston's Chinatown and the cultural heritage of the Chinatown community, which provided the background to the story of deaths and disappearances. I found that the author gave me the right amount of information for the main characters', not over-burdening me with their personal life's, this allowing the story to keep on track at a good pace, keeping me hooked wanting to know what was going to happen next. Had me guessing to the end.
An excellent book. if you like crime fiction I would recommend, you will enjoy.
(I have just picked up the first three in the series - looking forward to starting them)
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