Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles-the motivation for the smash hit TNT series-continue their bestselling crime-solving streak, as they pursue a shadowy psychopath keeping secrets and taking lives.Two separate homicides, at different places, with unrelated victims, have more in common than just being investigated by Boston PD detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles. In both situations, the bodies bear startling wounds-yet the real cause of death is unidentified. It’s a doubly demanding about I UNDERSTAND a Top secret case for the cop as well as the coroner to become taking on, at a fraught time for both of these. As Jane problems to save her mother in the crumbling marriage that threatens to bury her, Maura grapples with the imminent death of her own mother-infamous serial killer Amalthea Lank.While Jane tends to her mother, there’s nothing Maura can do for Amalthea, except endure one final battle of wills with the woman whose darkness has haunted her all her life. Though succumbing to malignancy, Amalthea hasn’t dropped her taste for manipulating her estranged daughter-this time by dangling a cryptic clue about the two bizarre murders Maura and Jane are frantically trying to resolve.But regardless of the dying convict knows is only a bit of the puzzle. Soon the investigation network marketing leads to a secretive young woman who survived a stunning abuse scandal, an unbiased horror film that may be rooted in reality, and a slew of martyred saints who died cruel and unusual deaths. And just when Rizzoli and Isles think they’ve cornered a devilish predator, the long-buried previous rears its head-and threatens to engulf more innocent lives, including their very own.