Books by Tess Gerritsen and Complete Book Reviews

Tess Gerritsen, Author Harlequin Books $2.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-373-22136-3
Melodrama and logical flaws slay this tale of murder and yuppie love. Gerritsen ( A Call After Midnight ) gets off to a flying start with a death during routine surgery. Although medical records suggest the patient died due to an error by...
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Tess Gerritsen. Ballantine, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-54388-2
The bitterness of a Boston winter doesn’t hinder a killer with a knack for gruesome murders, in bestseller Gerritsen’s twisty 12th Rizzoli & Isles mystery (after 2014’s Die Again). As Det. Jane Rizzoli puzzles out why the murderer is selecting...
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Tess Gerritsen. Ballantine, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-1-101-88434-8
On a trip to Rome, violinist Julia Ansdell, the narrator of this haunting standalone from bestseller Gerritsen (The Bone Garden), buys an old music book titled Gypsy from an antique shop. Inside the book, on a loose sheet of paper, is a handwritten...
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Tess Gerritsen. Ballantine, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-54385-1
In bestseller Gerritsen’s spellbinding 11th novel featuring Det. Jane Rizzoli of the Boston PD and medical examiner Maura Isles (after 2012’s Last to Die), Leon Gott, taxidermist and avid hunter, is eviscerated in his West Roxbury home, and the rare
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Tess Gerritsen. Ballantine, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-51563-6
At the start of Gerritsen’s pulse-pounding 10th thriller featuring Det. Jane Rizzoli of the Boston PD and her close friend, pathologist Maura Isles (after 2011’s The Silent Girl), an unidentified narrator describes her hunt for a person nicknamed...
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Tess Gerritsen. Ballantine, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-51550-6
In Gerritsen's gripping ninth Rizzoli & Isles novel (after Ice Cold), a severed hand found on a Chinatown street leads Det. Jane Rizzoli, Boston PD, to a rooftop, where she discovers a female body with a slit throat and without a hand. About the...
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Tess Gerritsen, Author Pocket Books $22 (352p) ISBN 978-0-671-55301-2
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Robin Cook is going to feel just swell after taking a look at Gerritsen's first novel. It's been 19 years since Cook published Coma as his own first novel, but that book's basic elements--as a tale of...
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Tess Gerritsen, Author Pocket Books $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-671-55303-6
Proving that the world of microbiology is a fertile medium for horror, Gerritsen follows Harvest, her bestselling hardcover debut, with this spine-tingling medical chiller. Toby Harper, an overworked 38-year-old night-shift ER physician at a private
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Tess Gerritsen, Author Atria Books $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-671-01675-3
Gerritsen leaves the urban hospital setting of her first two successful thrillers (Harvest; Life Support) and steps into Stephen King territory--the troubled Maine town of Tranquility--with mixed results. The former doctor's ability to create...
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Tess Gerritsen, Author Atria Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-671-01678-4
Gerritsen (Bloodstream) meshes medical suspense--her specialty--and the world of space travel in another nail-biting tale of genetic misadventure. Much of this scary thriller is set aboard the International Space Station, where a team of six...
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Tess Gerritsen, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-44783-8
A creepy cerebral serial killer vaguely reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter pursues a charismatic female doctor in this thoroughly satisfying if somewhat derivative thriller. Skillfully drawn surgical backdrops sizzling with ER intensity balance out the...
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Tess Gerritsen, Ballantine, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-51548-3
Unpredictable twists help propel Gerritsen's winning eighth novel featuring Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli (after The Keepsake). While in Wyoming late one fall for a pathologists' conference, Maura agrees to...
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Tess Gerritsen, Author . Ballantine $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-49762-8
Bestseller Gerritsen's at times lackluster series heroines prove they can shine in her solid seventh thriller to feature Det. Jane Rizzoli and Dr. Maura Isles (after The Mephisto Club ). When medical examiner Isles studies an X-ray scan of...
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Tess Gerritsen, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (370p) ISBN 978-0-345-49760-4
At the start of this disappointing stand-alone thriller from bestseller Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club ), 38-year-old divorcée Julia Hamill discovers a skeleton buried in the garden of the Boston house she’s just moved into; the ring...
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Tess Gerritsen, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-345-47699-9
In this brisk, deftly plotted thriller from bestseller Gerritsen (Vanish ), Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and police detective Jane Rizzoli look into the murder of 28-year-old Lori-Ann Tucker, whose body is found Christmas morning in her...
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Tess Gerritsen, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-47697-5
Retired internist Gerritsen serves up another prescription for bad dreams in her latest thriller to feature Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli (Body Double). The catalogue of terrors this time out includes...
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Tess Gerritsen, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-45893-3
A starred review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred review . BODY DOUBLE Tess Gerritsen . Ballantine , $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-345
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Tess Gerritsen, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-45891-9
A grisly murder at a convent baffles Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Det. Jane Rizzoli at the start of this assured, richly shaded seventh novel from bestseller Gerritsen (The Apprentice; The Surgeon, etc.). The popular duo are called to Boston'
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Tess Gerritsen, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-44785-2
For the first time since she moved from mass market originals to hardcover (with 1996's Harvest), Gerritsen offers a sequel—to last year's bestselling The Surgeon. It's a smart move, as in that novel this popular author introduced
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Tess Gerritsen, read by Tanya Eby. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 10 hrs., $36.99 ISBN 978-1-4233-9211-8
In this ninth entry in the Rizzoli and Isles series, fiery Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli probes the mystery of a gruesome murder in Chinatown while cool forensic pathologist Maura Isles copes with the consequences of testifying against a...
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Tess Gerritsen. Ballantine, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-1-9848-2095-2
This supernatural thriller from bestseller Gerritsen (the Rizzoli and Isles series) ranks with the best of her crime fiction. Boston food writer Ava Colette travels to Tucker Cove, Maine, where she rents Brodie’s Watch, an old house on the coast...
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Tess Gerritsen. Ballantine, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-49713-5
The case of Sofia Suarez, a widowed nurse found bludgeoned to death in her home, drives bestseller Gerritsen’s engrossing 13th mystery featuring Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles (after 2017’s I Know a Secret)....
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Tess Gerritsen. Thomas & Mercer, $28.99 (340p) ISBN 978-1-66251-512-5
Gerritsen (the Rizzoli & Isles series) delivers an amusing and exciting tale of retired CIA agents in Maine who swing into action when one of their own is threatened. Leading the action is Maggie Bird, a former spy who’s recently relocated to the...
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Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (334p) ISBN 978-1-5420-2615-4
The death of Taryn Moore, a senior at Boston’s Commonwealth University, whose shattered corpse is found on the street outside her apartment building, drives this so-so thriller from bestseller Gerritsen (the Rizzoli & Isles series) and Braver (Tunnel
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