The burial hour - Jeffery Deaver

Number one bestselling author and master of suspense Jeffery Deaver returns with the thirteenth Lincoln Rhyme thriller, which sees a crime go global...

The only leads in a broad-daylight kidnapping
are the account of an eight-year-old girl, some nearly invisible trace
evidence and the calling card: a miniature noose left lying on the
street. A crime scene this puzzling demands forensic expertise of the
highest order. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to
investigate.

Then the case takes a stranger turn: a recording
surfaces of the victim being slowly hanged, his desperate gasps the
backdrop to an eerie piece of music. The video is marked as the work of The Composer...

Despite
their best efforts, the suspect gets away. So when a similar kidnapping
occurs on a dusty road outside Naples, Rhyme and Sachs don't hesitate
to rejoin the hunt. But the search is now a complex case of
international cooperation - and not all those involved may be who they
seem. All they can do is follow the evidence, before their time runs
out.