In Tess Gerritsen’s latest Rizzoli & Isles thriller, detective Jane Rizzoli finds a severed hand, still clutching a gun, in a Chinatown alley in Boston.
After her gruesome discovery, Detective Rizzoli climbs to the adjacent roof-top and sees the hand's owner: a red-haired woman whose throat has been slashed so deeply that her head is nearly severed. The only clues to her identity are a throwaway mobile phone and the scrawled address of a closed-down restaurant.
Pathologist Dr Maura Isles confirms that the murder weapon is a Chinese sword. And due to Rizzoli’s detective work, it becomes clear that an ancient evil is stirring in Chinatown – an evil that has killed before and will kill again …