| New York city cops Eve and Peabody have to find out who killed twelve young girls and hid their bodies behind the walls of an old building. Eve's husband multi-billionaire businessman Roarke has recently bought an old building which used to function as a shelter for street children at some point of time in the past. On the first day of renovation, Roarke swings the inaugural blow to bring down the walls of the old building and discovers the bodies of 12 young girls concealed inside. Roarke informs his wife Lt. Eve Dallas of the situation.
With the help of forensic anthropologist Dr. Garnet DeWinter and her assistant Emily, Eve and her partner Peabody are able to identify 11 of the 12 dead girls. All the girls are found to have died by drowning. The job of notifying the families of each of the girls falls to Eve and Peabody. Eve finds that many of the children who died were part of the Sanctuary, the shelter which had functioned out of the same building nearly 15 years ago. Eve meets siblings Philadelphia Jones and Nashville Jones, the original founders of the Sanctuary, and finds that they are running a similar venture out of a new building now. During the course of the investigation, it is revealed that Philadelphia and Nash had another brother Monty who was killed in Africa by a lion while he was on a mission to that country. One of the dead girls is Shelby, a known troublemaker who used to be an inmate at the Sanctuary. Shelby had been friends with almost all the other dead girls. Eve is stunned to realize that her friend Mavis, who had to live on the streets during her childhood due to her difficult circumstances at home, had also known many of the dead girls. New York City's finest cops have to find the murderer of 12 children, but are they too late to apprehend the real criminal? | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear) How difficult to spot villain? - Difficult, but some clues given Time/era of story: What % of story relates directly to the mystery, not the subplot? - 40% Special suspect? - chronically deranged person Misc. Murder Plotlets - Big focus on forensic evidence Kind of investigator Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book descript. of violence and chases - 10 % Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 % How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20 % Crime Thriller Yes Murder Mystery (killer unknown) Yes Main Character Gender - Female Profession/status: Age: - 20's-30's Ethnicity/Race Unusual characteristics: Setting City? Yes City: - New York Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths Explicit sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy Unusual forms of death - drowned Unusual form of death? Yes Amount of dialog - significantly more dialog than descript |
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