Part of Rizzoli & Isles, book 11
First published 2014
Detective Jane Rizzoli stares at two bodies in a Boston apartment. A big game hunter lies dead alongside a white snow leopard he was preparing for a local museum. Medical examiner Maura Isles spots something disturbing. The hunter was found hanging upside down, just like several other recent victims. The positioning mimics how leopards display their kills. Rizzoli follows the strange pattern of deaths back to Botswana, where a safari trip ended in tragedy six years earlier. Multiple people died during that camping expedition, but one person survived. As Rizzoli digs deeper, she realizes the Boston murders connect directly to those deaths in Africa. Someone is methodically hunting the people involved in that failed safari. Rizzoli must find the lone survivor before the killer does. The trail leads her across continents as she races to solve both cases. She faces a predator who kills with the precision of a wild animal.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective, action
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, predator-prey
Setting: Africa, Boston, Botswana
Period: 21st-century
330 pages · Hardcover · Ballantine Books
Content warnings: death, graphic-violence, murder