Renowned big-game hunter and taxidermist Leon Gott is found in his West Roxbury home, eviscerated and hung like one of the animals whose heads adorn his walls. The rare snow leopard pelt he had been preserving is gone. For Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles, the staging is the point: this killer treats people as game.
Maura suspects the murder is not the first. Linking Gott's death to a series of unsolved killings in wilderness areas across the country, the investigation leads away from Boston entirely — back to a safari in Botswana's Okavango Delta six years earlier, on which Gott's son vanished. Running alongside the Boston case is the first-person account of Millie Jacobson, the only member of that safari party to come out of the bush alive, who describes how a group of trapped and terrified people turned on one another.
Die Again is the eleventh novel in Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli & Isles series, published in 2014. It alternates a procedural manhunt with a survival narrative, and reads as a self-contained case for anyone coming to the series new.