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.
My thoughts
This Rizzoli & Isles story begins with tourists taking a walking tour of criminal sites in Chinatown when the body of a woman is discovered at the site of 19 year old murder-suicide. While investigating the murder, Rizzoli starts questioning the story behind the older murders. Soon the investigation starts turning up other twists, making this one hell of a thriller.
There is an old Chinese woman who runs a martial arts school, missing girls and the Chinese fable of the monkey-king. With all this I learned a little about the Chinese culture and about this series. I have not read any of the pervious Rizzoli & Isles novels (although I must admit I’ve ssen the television series). This was quite an enthralling mystery.
Disclosure: I received this book for review through the amazon.com vine program. I received no compensation for my thoughts.
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