Editor's Comments

The Sinner is the third novel to feature detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles, the character whom the author has said she most closely identifies with. And it delivers just what her fans have come to expect: believable characters, chillingly authentic detail, page-turning plots, skin-prickling suspense, and visceral, heart-in-mouth thrills.

It opens in dead of winter outside the walls of a convent where a nun lies dead in the snow. Now read on ...