Peter and Amy Saul welcomed their 15-year-old orphaned nephew, Dominic, to the bosom of their all-American family.
"Isn't it wonderful to see him playing so happily with our children, Teddy and Lily?" they cooed.
"Fools," Dominic laughed to himself. "Can't they see this is written in scary italics and that this intro all happened 12 years ago and most of them are long since dead?"
Dr Maura Isles had never felt so alone. Despite having a serial killer for a mother and a long history of gruesome autopsies behind her, she still knew she was a feeble cardboard cutout in comparison with Kay Scarpetta.
"Maybe falling in love with Father Daniel the unavailable Catholic priest will give me some emotional depth," she thought. Just then her phone rang.
"I've got another hideous murder scene for you," said Detective Jane Rizzoli. "By the way, my parents have just decided to get separated and I'm still tormented by the killer we caught in the last book. Does this make me any more interesting or sympathetic?"
"Not really," Maura replied casually, as she inspected the decapitated and dismembered female corpse. How she wished Daniel would take her in his arms!
"So what have we got?" snapped Jane
"Weird writing, ritualistic killing, strange symbols. It's ..."
"Don't say it."
"... a Dan Brown rip-off."
Lily Saul found Giorgio and Paolo lying face down with their throats' slit wide open in the strange religious artefact shop where they all worked. How sad it was for them to be the victims of such mindless and gratuitous plotting, she wept, before cheering herself up with the thought that the readers didn't care one way or the other. The Demon is still after me. I must waste a couple of chapters creating non-existent tension by hiding in Rome.
"We've got another bizarre murder," said Jane. "The vic's another unimportant, minor character."
"Still, at least the crime took place at the big house on Beacon Hill," Maura grunted, as she dissected yet another corpse in graphic detail. "And it will give Tess the opportunity to introduce ..."
"Hello," smiled the impossibly handsome, Anthony Sansone. "I'm head of the Mephisto Club, a secret organisation that's admired by the FBI and which investigates Evil. We track down descendants of Horus and Azazel, who were begat by Lilith and are now Watchers of the Nephilim and I can't believe I'm saying all this crap."
"So the murderer is Lucifer," Jane exclaimed.
Daniel entered Maura passionately yet gently.
"I love you," she cried.
"I love you and God," he gasped.
Anthony looked grim. "Thanks to some idiotic deductions about the symbols and Maura's postmortem skills, we've connected the killings to the slaying of the Saul family 12 years ago that only Lily survived. We must track her down."
"Thank God the Mephisto Club has such a strong global network," Maura muttered as Lily was effortlessly found and brought back to America inside a paragraph.
"I knew Dominic was the Devil," Lily sobbed. " So after he murdered my family I killed him."
"But there's no body," Anthony pointed out.
"That's because He came back to life," Lily wailed.
"Or you never killed him in the first place," suggested Jane.
"Dominic is still alive then," Anthony panted. "You must hide away with the Mephisto Club."
"Aha," someone called Edwina, who had barely been mentioned before, laughed manically. "You thought I was just an insignificant member of the Mephisto Club. Well, I'm the Mother of the Nephilim, and Dominic is my son and we're going to kill you all."
"No you're not," snarled Jane as she shot both Edwina and Dominic in a mercifully rushed finale.
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