I loved the work completed in conjunction with the Italian police force and how the story ended. Another great Lincoln Rhyme novel. ( )

Ex-Library copy

Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator)
one of my favorite series
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The Burial Hour is book 13 in the Lincoln Rhyme series and once again Deaver shows what a fantastic writer he is.

I have to admit that I was not as taken with this book as I was with Steel Kiss the book before, at least not in the beginning. Don't take me wrong, the book is good, well-written, with an interesting case that will bring Rhyme and Sachs all the way to Italy. However, I was not impressed with the kidnapper. The Composer just never struck me as a very interesting villain. Not compared to other villains that Rhyme and Sachs have had to stop in previous books. However, this is Deaver we are talking about, around 100 pages before the book ended did it seem that they have closed the case which surprised me. I mean there is a lot of more pages to fill out, it can't be this simple? And, it was not. It's towards the end that Dever pulls the rug out from the reader's feet and twist the story, and suddenly wow! This is what I'm talking about, now the story of the book suddenly become very intense.

The Burial Hour is a great book, I love the new setting of Italy. That really made me eager to try out more crime books set in Italy. The contrast between the Italian law enforcement and the American was interesting to observe and I came to like Ercole Benelli, the Forestry officer that Rhyme and Sache worked it, very much.

I want to thank the publisher for providing me with a free copy for an honest review! ( )

In this Lincoln Rhyme forensic thriller, he and Amelia Sacks chase a serial kidnapper to Italy, where they run into terrorists, double agents, and corrupt police. The plot often gets stalled with forensic details that seem, at times, overwhelming. Of course, I realize those details make it a Lincoln Rhyme story, but I felt Lincoln and Amelia lacked more human emotion than usual. The plot labored in the first half until the more colorful characters in the story came to the rescue. I enjoyed how Stefan's obsession with sound morphs from a threat into a forensic tool. Then, finally, Mr. Deaver put the icing on the "wedding" cake! Yes, they're hitched! ( )