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The Burial Hour

A traveling businessman is snatched off of an Upper East Side street in broad daylight — or so it appears to the nine-year-old girl who is the crime’s only witness. The perp leaves a token at the site of the kidnapping — a miniature noose. A crime scene this puzzling demands forensic expertise of the highest order. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate.

Rhyme and Sachs’ investigation takes an unexpected turn when a similar kidnapping occurs across the Atlantic in a small town outside of Naples, Italy. The killer’s M.O. is bizarre and frightening. Obsessed with music, the man records the final breaths of his victims, then uses a keyboard sampler to compose an otherworldly tune that is then posted online. The search for the killer will become a complex case of international cooperation — yet not all is as it seems, and soon Sachs and Rhyme find themselves playing a dangerous game with shadowy parties from across the globe.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 480
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781455536375
  • Genres
  • mystery, fiction, thriller, crime, suspense, detective, audiobook, adult
  • Release date
  • 2017