"Fast paced mystery."

Homicide detective Jane Rizzoli is a week over due to deliver her first child and she is on the stand testifying. When her water breaks after a slight confrontation with the defendant, she is taken to the hospital. Where she and five other people are taken hostage.

Gabriel Dean, Jane's husband, is beside himself with worry and trying to get to Jane. Maura Isles, Boston's medical examiner and close friend of Jane, finds one of her dead bodies is not so dead. Five women are brutally murdered in a secluded house in the woods. Federal agents show up on the scene and Home Land Security gets involved. Jane, Gabriel and Maura join forces to put all the pieces of this puzzle together.

You will be sitting on the edge reading this one. Your emotions are fully involved and you can't put this one down. Don't be surprised if you find yourself staying up late to finish this one. Once again Ms. Gerristsen has delivered a twisting turning mystery for her readers enjoyment.

Reviewed by Judith Saul
Posted September 4, 2005