It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city’s woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death.
The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city’s streets. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. At least that’s what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks. Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her–literally and figuratively–she is determined to finally end Hoyt’s awful influence . . . even if it means receiving more resistance from her all-male homicide squad.
But Rizzoli isn’t counting on the U.S. government’s sudden interest. Or on meeting Special Agent Gabriel Dean, who knows more than he will tell. Most of all, she isn’t counting on becoming a target herself, once Hoyt is suddenly free, joining his mysterious blood brother in a vicious vendetta. . . .
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While there is a very long list of books waiting in the libraries and on my bookshelf, I want to read the Rizzoli & Isles series again. Well, a least the first few books.
This series of books, in Chinese and even in English, are all so popular, this is the only English book I can find in the libraries. Look at the battered cover, you can know how popular it has been. I’ve just checked. There are four people waiting for this book! Haha, I’d better return the book ASAP.
In this second book, Rizzoli is more the woman cop I remember in the rest of the series. She is no longer just an angry cop who tries so hard to make other hear her; so hard that she makes you annoyed sometimes.
I skipped the monologue of the monster Warren Hoyt. I didn’t want to understand how a monster’s mind worked. No!!
“In 1887, a young Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, thus creating an international icon in the quick-witted sleuth Sherlock Holmes. In this, the first Holmes mystery, the detective introduces himself to Dr. Watson with the puzzling line “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive." And so begins Watson’s, and the world’s, fascination with this enigmatic character.
Doyle presents two equally perplexing mysteries for Holmes to solve: one a murder that takes place in the shadowy outskirts of London, in a locked room where the haunting word Rache is written upon the wall, the other a kidnapping set in the American West. Quickly picking up the “scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life," Holmes does not fail at finding the truth – and making literary history."
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The first time I read Sherlock Holmes in English. I’m trying my best to find all the books in libraries. I might purchase the series when I can find a decent edition.
Skipped most of the part that happened in American West. Don’t want to go through what happened to John Ferrier and Lucy Ferrier. So unbearably cruel!!
閱讀, 旅行, 喝咖啡 The Road Not Taken 