Part of Lincoln Rhyme, book 13
First published 2017
A nine-year-old girl watches a businessman vanish from an Upper East Side street in daylight. The kidnapper leaves behind a miniature noose. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs arrive to process the baffling crime scene. Then another abduction occurs near Naples, Italy, with the same calling card. The killer has a twisted obsession with music. He records his victims' dying breaths and transforms the sounds into eerie compositions using a keyboard sampler. These haunting tracks appear online as his signature. Rhyme and Sachs must navigate international law enforcement to track this predator across continents. The investigation grows treacherous as they discover hidden players manipulating events from the shadows. What began as a straightforward kidnapping case becomes a deadly chess match with global stakes.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: cat-and-mouse, global-stakes
Setting: Upper East Side, Naples, Italy
Period: Daylight
480 pages · Hardcover · Grand Central Publishing
Content warnings: kidnapping