The Burial Hour (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel, 14)

Synopsis

A Businessman Is Snatched From An Upper East Side Street In Broad Daylight, A Miniature Hangman's Noose Left At The Scene. A Nine-year-old Girl Is The Only Witness. With A Crime Scene This Puzzling, Lincoln Rhyme And Amelia Sachs Are Called In To Investigate. Soon The Case Takes A Stranger Turn: A Recording Surfaces Of The Victim Being Slowly Hanged, His Desperate Gasps The Backdrop To An Eerie Piece Of Music. The Video Is Marked As The Work Of The Composer. When A Similar Kidnapping Occurs Outside Naples, Rhyme And Sachs Don't Hesitate To Rejoin The Hunt. But The Search Is Now A Complex Case Of International Cooperation And Not All Those Involved May Be Who They Seem. Sachs And Rhyme Find Themselves Playing A Dangerous Game, With Lives All Across The Globe Hanging In The Balance.