ICE COLD
In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles
joins a group of friends on a spur-of-the-moment ski trip. But when
their SUV stalls on a snow-choked mountain road, they're stranded with
no help in sight.
As night falls, the group seeks refuge from the blizzard in the remote
village of Kingdom Come, where twelve eerily identical houses stand dark
and abandoned. Something terrible has happened in Kingdom Come: Meals
sit untouched on tables, cars are still parked in garages. The town's
previous residents seem to have vanished into thin air, but footprints
in the snow betray the presence of someone who still lurks in the cold
darkness--someone who is watching Maura and her friends.
Days later, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim
news that Maura's charred body has been found in a mountain ravine.
Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her
friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of
Kingdom Come, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow.
As horrifying revelations come to light, Jane closes in on an enemy both
powerful and merciless--and the chilling truth about Maura's fate.
THE SILENT GIRL
In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female's severed hand. On the
tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a
red-haired woman dressed all in black, the body nearly decapitated. Two
strands of silver hair--not human--cling to her body. They are Rizzoli's
only clues, but they're enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles
to make a startling discovery: This violent death had a chilling
prequel.
Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown
restaurant left five people dead. One woman connected to that massacre
is still alive: a mysterious martial arts master who knows a secret she
dares not tell, a secret that lives and breathes in the shadows of
Chinatown. A secret that may not even be human. Now she's the target of
someone, or something, deeply and relentlessly evil.
Cracking a crime resonating with bone-chilling echoes of an ancient
Chinese legend, Rizzoli and Isles must outwit an unseen enemy with
centuries of cunning--and a swift, avenging blade.
