Die Again

When a Boston detective finds a big game hunter dead beside the body of a rare snow leopard, it looks like an isolated curiosity. It isn't. What Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles uncover pulls them from the streets of Boston all the way to the African wilderness, where a safari gone wrong six years earlier left questions that no one wanted answered. The predator at the center of it all may be human — and very much still hunting.

Gerritsen earns her reputation here by doing two things at once: she constructs a genuinely surprising procedural puzzle while never losing sight of the primal fear that makes the premise so unsettling. The parallel timelines — present-day Boston and a vanished group of campers in Botswana — create mounting dread through contrast rather than action, and the pages move with the kind of clean, propulsive momentum that makes you miss your stop. For readers who enjoy the Rizzoli & Isles dynamic, this installment pushes both characters into unfamiliar territory in ways that feel earned.