Gerritsen, Tess

Boston Police Detective Jane Rizzoli must protect the life of Teddy Clock, a boy who survived the murders of his birth family and now his foster family, by sending him to the exclusive Evensong Boarding School.

Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms the startling fact: the mysterious doppelg?nger is in fact her twin sister. Now an already bizarre homicide investigation becomes a disturbing excursion into a past full of dark secrets and twisted truths. It is a journey that leads Maura to the mother she never knew; an icy and cunning woman who gave Maura life, and who just might have a plan to take it away.

The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman?s brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It?s a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O?Donnell; Jane?s professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club.

Boston medical examiner Maura Isles's SUV stalls on a mountain road, leaving her and her friends to seek refuge in the seemingly abandoned village called Kingdom Come, but when Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives word that Maura's charred body was discovered in a ravine, she sets out to hunt down the killer and unravel the secrets concerning Maura's fate.

Medical examiner Maura Isles and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli investigate when a murderer begins placing his victims in the Crispin Museum and a young archaeologist goes missing.

Julia Ansdell, after coming across a curious piece of music while in Rome, discovers that when she begins to play it, the music has a terrifying effect on her young daughter, who seems violently transformed. As Julia sets out to discover the man and the meaning behind the music, she uncovers a dark, decades-old secret involving a dangerously powerful family that will stop at nothing to keep Julia from finding out the truth.

A woman trying to outrun her past is drawn to a coastal village in Maine, and to a string of unsolved murders.

Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles pool their resources to find the killer of a young woman found with no signs of trauma or a struggle but holding her eyes in one hand. The woman belongs to a group of horror-movie filmmakers (passionate wannabes, funded by the victim?s indulgent father). The grotesque death scene echoes one in their films. A second mutilation murder follows, also ghastly, this time with religious iconography. While Rizzoli and Isles try to decipher the motive behind these murders, another narrative voice emerges, that of a woman with a deep secret in her past. Figuring out whether this woman is predator or prey proves fascinating, more so, in fact, than following Rizzoli and Isles? investigation.

A terrifying killer leaves a big game hunter dead and mutilated like the animals whose heads hang upon his walls. Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are on the case, and though this murder was in Boston, they may find the answer to the killer's identity in Africa.