The Burial Hour (2017)
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.
Praise
“Jeffery Deaver’s forte is the diabolical puzzle mystery, and THE BURIAL HOUR is so devilishly tricky you can practically smell the sulfur fumes… In a bold plot twist, Deaver folds Rhyme’s inquiries into a broader investigation of a humanitarian challenge shared by the whole world. Takes guts, that does.”
—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
Also In This Series
- The Watchmaker’s Hand (2023)
- The Midnight Lock (2021)
- The Cutting Edge (2018)
- The Steel Kiss (2016)
- The Skin Collector (2014)
- The Kill Room (2013)
- The Burning Wire (2010)
- The Broken Window (2008)
- The Cold Moon (2006)
- The Twelfth Card (2005)
- The Vanished Man (2003)
- The Stone Monkey (2002)
- The Empty Chair (2000)
- The Coffin Dancer (1998)
- The Bone Collector (1997)