The Mephisto Club

, #6

eBook, 634 pages

English language

Published Nov. 20, 2006 by Ballantine Books.

ISBN:
978-0-345-49530-3
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OCLC Number:
237002218

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The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman’s brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It’s a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O’Donnell–Jane’s professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club.

On top of Beacon Hill, the club’s acolytes devote themselves to the analysis of evil: Can it be explained by science? Does it have a physical presence? Do demons walk the earth? Drawing on a wealth of dark historical data and mysterious religious symbolism, the Mephisto scholars aim to prove a startling theory: that Satan himself exists among us.

With the grisly appearance of a corpse on their doorstep, it’s clear that someone–or something–is indeed prowling the city. The members of the club begin to fear the very subject of their study. Could …

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reviewed The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen (Rizzoli & Isles, #6)

Overwrought & also tedious

What if fallen angels have been mating with fallen women for centuries, and their children were demons. And what if one of those demons committed a crime that must be investigated by a homicide detective and a medical examiner?

That's the overwrought and preposterous premise behind this entry in the Rizzoli & Isles series.

Pfff. Meh.