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Title: The Mephisto Club

Subtitle: Rizzoli & Isles 6

Author: Tess Gerritsen

Narrator: Laurel Lefkow

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-07

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

In a rundown house, a woman has been dismembered in an act of carnage that leaves veteran cops in shock. The last person called from the dead girl's phone was Dr. Joyce O'Donnell, a celebrity psychiatrist who has made her name defending serial murderers.

But there are other clues that make the police wonder if this slaying was part of a Satanic ritual. 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 the grand residence of Anthony Sansone, a reclusive historian. He is the leader of the Mephisto Club, an old and secret society dedicated to the study of evil, and to confronting it in its purest form. On the door to Sansone's house have been scrawled yet more ancient symbols. Are they clues? Or threats?

When the same symbols appear on Maura Isles' door, Maura and Jane must call on the Mephisto Club for assistance, because this is a form of evil Boston PD has never encountered before. And the only way they can defeat it is by turning to the people who understand the devil himself.

Members Reviews:

A MEDICAL Thriller

Tightly written, but somewhat predictable medical thriller. Abbey, a young surgical intern with a brilliant career ahead of her stumbles onto a sinister crime syndicate. This a story told well, but a story that is a little overdone in the anals of medical thrillers. The medical jargon was trying at times. A bit too much med-speak for the uninitiated. This is probably my first and last medical thriller for 2017.

AnImperfect Marriage Between The Supernatural and Suspense

This book seeks to merge suspense with the supernatural and is only partially successful. As Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli and Medical Examiner Maura Isles investigate a series of grisly slayings with satanic overtones,they reluctantly join forces with the Mephisto Club.The club is a secret society of intellectuals focused on extinguishing an ancient evil that lurks among the unsuspecting. This group belives that the Biblical and pre-biblical stories of the Watchers, angels that mated with humanwomen,is true. The descendents of these unholy alliances roam the earth,wreaking havoc and feeding off the chaos and violence. Apparently,the goal of these evil predators is to rule the world.

The plot veers wildly from location to location. As the club members track down a link in Europe, Rizzoli and Isles travel to New York State and then to a New England lodge where the evil ones are unveiled.

This novel is interesting but uneven. The middle does drag and the two stories don't blend well. In order for the suspense aspects to succeed, there has to be committment to the concept that evil not only exists but is personified. The club's member's credentials lend credence to the story but Rizzoli is too mundane to seriously consider it and Isles is too afraid. Rizzoli's family problems, ie, her adulterous dad and her angry mom, seem silly and trivial. Isles affair with the priest is annoying.

This was an intersting concept. There is bad, ie drug dealing, spouse abuse, theft, and there is evil,the Holocaust,911 massacre.