The Mephisto Club
"… The Mephisto Club is an exciting read, with plenty of gruesome murders and enough suspects to keep the reader guessing until the end."
Synopsis:
Christmas Eve in Boston is no holy night for medical examiner Dr Maura Isles. In a rundown house, a woman has been dismembered in an act of carnage that leaves even veteran cops in shock. Drawn on the wall, in blood, are ancient symbols and a mirror image word in Latin, that, translated, says, ' I have sinned'.
Then a second woman is found butchered on Beacon Hill, just outside of the leader of the Mephisto Club, a secret society dedicated to the study of evil and to confronting it in its purest form. On the door have been scrawled yet more ancient symbols. Are they clues? Or threats?
This is a new form of evil that Boston PD has never encountered before. And the only way Maura and detective Jane Rizzoli can defeat it is by turning to the people who understand the devil himself…
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Review:
Although I found the storyline not quite as entertaining as her previous books, they are so well written that it is easy to forgive her if one is not a major fan of the occult. With each book in the series, the main characters continue to build and develop. In The Mephisto Club, Gerrittsen also widens her character base by bringing in peripheral family members, adding a dash of humour to the story. Despite my slight disappointment with the storyline, Gerritsen remains a firm favourite of mine and The Mephisto Club is an exciting read, with plenty of gruesome murders and enough suspects to keep the reader guessing until the end.