Die Again: (Rizzoli & Isles 11)

Travel Guide

Botswana

The Safari sounds great on paper – a journey into the wilderness an the deep heart of  the jungle  and the Okavango Delta of Botswana. Imagine the feeling of sleeping under the stars in such a fantastic environment? With the sound of the jungle all around, the wildlife only yards away:

“There are no roads out here, only  a faint flattening of the grass where the passage of earlier tires had compacted the poor soil. The damaged caused by a  single ruck can scar the landscape for months..”

This however soon becomes a nightmare as the wildlife takes its hostages, killing the hired tracker. The party can only stay there, like the prey that they are, stranded and waiting to see who will be next.

“..as I emerge from our tent…‘lone footprints catches my eye. I crouch down beside it and feel a sudden chill when I realise that only a thin layer of canvas shielded us while we slept.”

Millie narrates this part of the tale and her insight into each scary minute raises te tension and the eerily chilling beating of your heart.
And the advice for surviving the trip?

“Face them straight on. And what ever you do , don’t run, You’ll have a better chance of surviving”

Boston

The animal link takes on another chilling tone as the murder of a taxidermist. The hunter becomes the hunted and the walls are covered with his prize takings – animals heads, pelts and bodies. He was working in the world of big cats and was preparing a rare snow leopard that had to be euthanized at the local zoo. The argument of animal lovers and those utterly opposed to hunting and taxidermy of any kind.

The man’s connections to that Botswana trip lead the detectives to detailing some gruesome and graphic descriptions of finding and examining bodies you have ever read. The fact that this killer has now come to Boston – to track the one that got away in Botswana? – involves having to hunt the hunter himself.