num_pages: 480
description: A traveling businessman is snatched off of an Upper East Side street in broad daylightor so it appears to the nine-year-old girl who is the crimes only witness. The perp leaves a token at the site of the kidnappinga miniature noose. A crime scene this puzzling demands forensic expertise of the highest order. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate.Rhyme and Sachs investigation takes an unexpected turn when a similar kidnapping occurs across the Atlantic in a small town outside of Naples Italy. The killers M.O. is bizarre and frightening. Obsessed with music the man records the final breaths of his victims then uses a keyboard sampler to compose an otherworldly tune that is then posted online. The search for the killer will become a complex case of international cooperationyet not all is as it seems and soon Sachs and Rhyme find themselves playing a dangerous game with shadowy parties from across the globe.
language: English
title: The Burial Hour
publisher: Grand Central Publishing