Paperback. Pub Date: 2007 Publisher: Audiobooks Christmas Eve in Boston is no holy night for medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles 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 is Dr. Joyce O'Donnell. a celeity psychiatrist who's 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 Sans...
