


At least that’s what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks….”Īfter reading the utterly brilliant first book in Gerritsen’s Rizzoli and Isles series, The Surgeon, I couldn’t wait a single second more to get stuck into the next in the series. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city’s streets. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death. Adding to the city’s woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. But it's not just about blood and gore.“It is a boiling hot Boston summer. But if you like your crime medicine strong, this will keep you grippedĪ cross between Messiah and Prime Suspect, this is gritty, gristly and graphic, the adrenaline pumping overtime till the very last page. Gerritsen was a medic before she turned to writing, and her book contains enough grisly details to put you off hospitals for life. This is a classic page-turner, full of melodrama and moments of heightened tension Head-to-head with Nicci French and Karin Slaughter to scare the pants off you. Note: do not read this one in bed or when home alone Read more own, never as baroque as Harris, and always smoothly enriched with detail and characters who catch your sympathies. Tess Gerritsen here moves into Thomas Harris class, though with a style all of her. You may need a smear of Vicks menthol under your nose to get through Gerritsen's autopsies and crime scenes in this follow-up, a masterful sequel to The Surgeon. Show Less Product DetailsĪ classic page-turner full of moments of heightened tension. Suddenly, Jane is chasing not one but two brilliant and twisted minds, united by one goal. Read more new killer, the unthinkable happens: The Surgeon escapes. While they’re still trying to track down the. They remind her and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles of those committed by a killer known as The Surgeon, who they recently put behind bars. But if you like your crime medicine strong, this will keep you gripped' MAIL ON SUNDAY A series of horrific murders seem disturbingly familiar to Detective Jane Rizzoli. _ A KILLER WHO KNOWS HIS TRADE 'Gerritsen was a medic before she turned to writing, and her book contains enough grisly details to put you off hospitals for life. While they're still trying to track down the new killer, the unthinkable happens: the Surgeon escapes.

They remind her and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles of those committed by a killer known as the Surgeon, who they recently put behind bars. A series of horrific murders seem disturbingly familiar to Detective Jane Rizzoli.
