Now retired from medicine, she writes full time. Publisher Weekly has dubbed her the "medical suspense queen". Ballantine, 24.95 (352p) ISBN 3-1 Pregnant women play key roles in this bone-chilling fourth novel in Gerritsens edgy, suspenseful series of. She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award (for Vanish) and the Rita Award (for The Surgeon.) Critics around the world have praised her novels as "Pulse-pounding fun" (Philadelphia Inquirer), "Scary and brilliant" (Toronto Globe and Mail), and "Polished, riveting prose" (Chicago Tribune). Her books have been translated into 31 languages, and more than 15 million copies have been sold around the world.Īs well as being a New York Times bestselling author, she has also been a #1 bestseller in both Germany and the UK. Her suspense novels since then have been: Life Support (1997), Bloodstream (1998), Gravity (1999), The Surgeon (2001), The Apprentice (2002), The Sinner (2003), Body Double (2004), Vanish (2005), The Mephisto Club (2006), and The Bone Garden (2007). Tess's first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. She also wrote a screenplay, "Adrift", which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson. ![]() Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D. Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. an icy and cunning woman who could be responsible for giving Maura life–and who just may have a plan to take it away. ![]() To stop the massacre and uncover the twisted truth about her own roots, Maura must probe her first living the mother that she never knew. But perhaps more frightening, an unknown murderer is at large on a cross-country killing spree. Searching for answers, Maura is drawn to a seaside town in Maine where other horrifying surprises await. And when a DNA test confirms that Maura’s mysterious doppelgänger is in fact her twin sister, an already bizarre murder investigation becomes a disturbing and dangerous excursion into a past full of dark secrets. For the stunned Maura, an only child, there can be just one explanation. Even more chilling is the discovery that they share the same birth date and blood type. Yet there can be no denying the mind-reeling evidence before her shocked eyes and those of her colleagues, including Detective Jane the woman found shot to death outside Maura’s home is the mirror image of Maura, down to the most intimate physical nuances. Because never before has the lifeless body on the medical examiner’s table been her own. But never before has her blood run cold, and never has the grim expression “dead ringer” rung so terrifyingly true. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more than her share of corpses every day–many of them victims of violent murder. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. Maura Isles literally meets her match–and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations–in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner. ![]() ![]() of violence and chases 10% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 40% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 40% How society works & physical descript.Boston medical examiner Dr. Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book descript.
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