The Burial Hour

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Number one bestselling author and master of suspense Jeffery Deaver returns with the thirteenth Lincoln Rhyme thriller, which sees a crime go global...

The only leads in a broad-daylight kidnapping  are the account of an eight-year-old girl, some nearly invisible trace  evidence and the calling card: a miniature noose left lying on the  street. A crime scene this puzzling demands forensic expertise of the  highest order. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to  investigate.    

Then 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...

Despite  their best efforts, the suspect gets away. So when a similar kidnapping  occurs on a dusty road 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. All they can do is follow the evidence, before their time runs  out.