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The Burial Hour

Jeffery Deaver
Contents (12)
  1. Author’s Note
  2. The Hangman’s Waltz
  3. In the Field of Truffles
  4. The Aqueduct
  5. The Land of No Hope
  6. Skulls and Bones
  7. The House of Rats
  8. The Sound of Sense
  9. The Dragonfly and the Gargoyle
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. About the Author
  12. Also by Jeffery Deaver
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Deaver, Jeffery, author.
Title: The burial hour : a Lincoln Rhyme novel / Jeffery Deaver.
Description: First edition. | New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016054237 | ISBN 9781455536375 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781455571178 (large print) | ISBN 9781478906636 (audio book) | ISBN 9781478906643 (audio download) | ISBN 9781455536399 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Rhyme, Lincoln (Fictitious character)—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Thrillers. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction. | Suspense fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3554.E1755 B85 2017 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016054237

ISBNs: 978-1-4555-3637-5 (hardcover), 978-1-4555-3639-9 (ebook), 978-1-4555-7117-8 (large print), 978-1-5387-6033-8 (signed edition)

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To the memory of my friend Giorgio Faletti.
The world misses you.

Author’s Note

While the Italian law enforcement agencies I refer to in this novel are real, I do hope the fine members of these organizations, many of whom I’ve met and whose company I’ve enjoyed, will forgive the minor adjustments I’ve made to their procedures and locales, which have been necessary for the timing and plotting of the story.

And I wish to offer my particular thanks to musician and writer, translator and interpreter extraordinaire Seba Pezzani, without whose friendship, and diligence and devotion to the arts, this book could not have been written.

The winter wind blows and the night is dark;

Moans are heard in the linden-trees.

Through the gloom, white skeletons pass,

Running and leaping in their shrouds.

—Henri Cazalis, “Danse Macabre”

Monday, September 20

I

The Hangman’s Waltz

Chapter 1