
She’s Pilgrim Hospital’s most unusual patient, and on this Saturday night, a media circus is gathered to record every minute of her visit to the X-ray department. Crammed into the small CT scan room are reporters, TV cameras, a select group of medical technicians – and forensic pathologist Maura Isles.
Maura is there because the patient being scanned tonight isn’t alive. She’s probably been dead for centuries. She is, in fact, a mummy.
As the CT scan proceeds, everyone in the room leans in close – and gasps in horror as an image of a bullet is revealed. Maura declares it a possible homicide case and calls in Detective Jane Rizzoli.
When the preserved body of a second victim is found – and then a third – it becomes all too clear that not only is a maniac at large but he is taunting them. And that, unless Maura and Jane can find and stop him, he will soon be adding yet another chilling piece to his monstrous collection.
5/5
You did hear me correctly. I am more than contended to rate this intensly compelling novel the perfect score. Just to let you know, Tess G . is one of my favourite crime-writing novelist. What i like about her ‘Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles’ thrillers is how she gives the reader insides of the emergency units and autosy rooms. This brings back to all the police cases , and coroner’s cases, that i have encounted in the ward.
OK. Back to the novel.
So, what do i like, no wait, love about this novel.
The “Archeology Killer’ who hunts gorgeous women with dark hair. Like every psychppathic, deranged murderer. He kills them. Not only that:
He preserves them.
Yup. Preserving them so they become part of his collestion. Mummifying them. Behading them and turning their heads into tsanstas or in Jane Rizzoli’s words: a fucking christmas ornament. Or, there is an option of soaking the corpse in Bog water. You could say it is some sort of a ’soup’ to serve its purpose of preserving the corpse? But the true objectives of the murderer’s killing (and mummifying spree) is to
1. create a collection of women of his own. preserving them so they would not rot and leave him forever. (wow, what a sick bastard).
2. Find the main victim. his real target. Medea Sommer.
I strongly suggest this novel. Despite the fact it is 38 chapters long, i can assure you that you will finish it in 24 hours(minimum). That’s because the plot is so intense that you wouldn’t think about putting it down until you reach the last words of the final chapter.