In Tess Gerritsen’s newest crime story The Silent Girl – A Rizzoli & Isles Novel, homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and her partner dr Maura Isles, a medical examiner, work on a grim case: a woman was brutally murdered in a secluded alley in Boston’s Chinatown, one of her hands was cut off and her head was almost severed from her body.
Rizzoli notices that the heinous murder has to do something with another case that happened nineteen years ago. Back then, five people were killed at the same place, in a Chinatown restaurant Red Phoenix, and there was one solitary survivor who never said a word about her escape. After those murders, a child vanished, and there were probably many more missing teenage girls. One of the suspects, an elderly Chinese woman, a master of martial arts herself and the widow of a waiter who was murdered in the carnage nineteen years ago, knows a secret that she dares not share. No-nonsense Maura Isles (who is presently on wrong terms with policemen as she testified against a murderous policeman on a trial) does not believe in urban legends, but Detective Rizzoli thinks otherwise. She decides to work with Johnnie Tam, a young Chinese detective, to understand more about the cultural background (and the language) of the present and past crime cases. According to an ancient Chinese legend, the Monkey King is an immortal spirit, a master in martial arts, who fights for justice and causes a bloodbath whilst searching for it. The hairs that were found on the murdered woman’s clothing were not the hairs of a human but those of an ape…
Tess Gerritsen, this brilliant Chinese-American author, is known for her medical thriller novels like Harvest, Surgeon, and Bloodstream, and her historical crime novel The Bone Garden, and, of course, her Rizzoli&Isles crime-suspense-thriller series. Many of her books are New York Times best-sellers, and The Silent Girl, a smartly plotted, atmospheric supernatural thriller, is certainly destined for this fate, too.
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