In broad daylight, a businessman is abducted from a street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Left at the scene is a miniature noose. The only witness to the crime is a nine-year-old girl. The case is riddled with questions and calls for the highest level of investigative expertise. Forensic expert Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are assigned to investigate. Soon, the case takes an even stranger turn: a video surfaces, recording the victim being slowly strangled.
His gasping struggles become the eerie backing track to a piece of music. The video’s creator calls himself a composer...
Despite the police’s best efforts, the suspect escapes. So when a similar abduction takes place on a dusty road outside Naples, Italy, Rhyme and Sachs join the hunt without hesitation.
But this new abduction has become an international investigation, and some of those involved have another identity they’re keeping secret. Sachs and Rhyme realize they are caught up in a dangerous game stretching across the ocean, with an unknown life hanging in the balance...
I think the author's description of criminal investigation knowledge is very professional and vivid, making me feel like I am immersed in the scene. Moreover, the protagonists in the book, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs, also cooperated very well, which made me feel the importance of teamwork. I will also encounter various difficulties in my studies, but like them, I will not give up and work hard to find solutions to problems. This book gave me a new understanding of mystery novels, and it is really worth reading!