Last to Die by Tess Gerritsen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Mephisto Society re-enters the picture when Maura goes to visit Julian at the remote Evensong school in the Maine woods. In New York, Rizzoli & her colleagues catch a murder where a foster family is killed with one young survivor. Putting things together it seems that there are three kids with a common history - their parents were murdered two years ago, and now their foster families have been murdered.

As Jane and Maura become embroiled in this case, it is impossible to tell the good guys from the bad. Great plotting and storytelling.

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I think this is the best of the Rizzoli & Isles books so far.  When reading [book:Last to Die|13272498], I realized that I had missed reading Ice Cold.  It really sets up Last to Die, were Maura meets and is rescued by Julian, a "lost boy" - cast out by his cult leader so that the young girls are available for marriage to the older men.  The polygamous cult is modeled after the Warren Jeffson group in Nevada/New Mexico(?)