LAST TO DIE
For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a
massacre. Two years ago, he barely escaped when his entire family was
slaughtered. Now, at fourteen, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is
the lone survivor of his foster family's mass murder. Orphaned once
more, the traumatized teenager has nowhere to turn -- until the Boston
PD puts Detective Jane Rizzoli on the case. Determined to protect this
young man, Jane discovers that what seemed like a coincidence is instead
just one horrifying part of a relentless killer's merciless mission.
Jane spirits Teddy to the exclusive Evensong boarding school, a
sanctuary where young victims of violent crime learn the secrets and
skills of survival in a dangerous world. But even behind locked gates,
and surrounded by acres of sheltering Maine wilderness, Jane fears that
Evensong's mysterious benefactors aren't the only ones watching. When
strange blood-splattered dolls are found dangling from a tree, Jane
knows that her instincts are dead on. And when she learns of Will
Yablonski and Claire Ward, students whose tragic pasts bear a shocking
resemblance to Teddy's, it becomes chillingly clear that a circling
predator has more than one victim in mind.
Joining forces with her trusted partner, medical examiner Maura Isles,
Jane is determined to keep these orphans safe from harm. But an
unspeakable secret dooms the children's fate--unless Jane and Maura can
finally put an end to an obsessed killer's twisted quest.
DIE AGAIN
When Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura
Isles are summoned to a crime scene, they find a killing worthy of the
most ferocious beast--right down to the claw marks on the corpse. But
only the most sinister human hands could have left renowned big-game
hunter and taxidermist Leon Gott gruesomely displayed like the
once-proud animals whose heads adorn his walls. Did Gott unwittingly
awaken a predator more dangerous than any he had ever hunted?
Maura fears that this isn't the killer's first slaughter, and that it
won't be the last. After linking the crime to a series of unsolved
homicides in wilderness areas across the country, she wonders if the
answers might actually be found in a remote corner of Africa.
Six years earlier, a group of tourists on safari fell prey to a killer
in their midst. Marooned deep in the bush of Botswana, with no means of
communication and nothing but a rifle-toting guide for protection, the
terrified tourists desperately hoped for rescue before their worst
instincts--or the wild animals prowling in the shadows--could tear them
apart. But the deadliest predator was already among them, and within a
week, he walked away with the blood of all but one of them on his hands.
Now this killer has chosen Boston as his new hunting ground, and Rizzoli
and Isles must find a way to lure him out of the shadows and into a
cage. Even if it means dangling the bait no hunter can resist: the one
victim who got away.
