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Tess Gerritsen
Dr. Tess Gerritsen (born June 1953) is an American author of science fiction and suspense novels. She studied at Stanford and the University of California, and after graduating worked as a doctor. She was on maternity leave when she started writing fiction, and published her first novel, the romantic thriller Call After Midnight in 1987. Her books have been translated into 37 languages, and more than 20 million copies have been sold around the world.
In 1996 'Harvest' was published. This was her first medical thriller (after 9 romance novels). She has since gained a reputation for writing medically astute thrillers that have been described as polished, scary and brilliant.
Now retired from medicine, she is married with two sons, and lives in Maine, USA.
Available Books by Tess Gerritsen
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The Silent Girl
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553825633
RRP: $14.95
In the murky shadows of an alley in Boston's Chinatown a hand has been discovered. On the rooftop above lies a woman's severed head. Two strands of silver hair - not human - cling to the body that lies nearby. These are Detective Jane Rizzoli's only clues, but they are enough for her and Dr Maura Isles to make a startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel. Se...
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Keeper Of The Bride / Thief Of Hearts
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921794124
RRP: $29.99
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Gravity
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007432424
RRP: $19.99
Dr Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living organisms in space. Jack McCallum, Emma's estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded him. Now he must watch from the sidelines.
The mission aboard the space station turns into a nightmare when a culture of single-celled organisms ...
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Bloodstream
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007432431
RRP: $19.99
Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the temptations of the big city and the lingering memory of his father's death. And she's hopeful that she can earn the trust of the town as she builds a new practice. But all her plans unravel with the onset of ...
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The Silent Girl
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780593063248
RRP: $52.95
When a severed hand, clutching a gun, is found in a Chinatown alley in downtown Boston, detective Jane Rizzoli climbs to the adjacent roof-top and finds the hand's owner: a red-haired woman whose throat has been slashed so deeply the head is nearly severed. She is dressed all in black, and the only clues to her identity are a throwaway cell phone and a scrawled address of a long-shuttered rest...
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The Killing Place
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553824810
RRP: $14.95
Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. The people who lived in them appear to have vanished, seemingly into thin air. Maura Isles is driving through the area with a group of friends when they find themselves trapped in a snowstorm. They stumble into the abandoned village to take shelter. But the...
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Keeping the Dead
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553818376
RRP: $14.95
HE HIDES
When an ancient mummy is discovered in the basement of a museum in down-town Boston, excitement starts to mount. Under the glare of a media frenzy, the mummy is taken to hospital for a CT scan. Forensic pathologist Maura Isles is also invited to attend.
HE KILLS
As the CT scan proceeds everyone in the room leans in and gasps in horror as an image of a bullet is revealed. Maura declares i...
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Bone Garden
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553818352
RRP: $14.95
A gruesome secret is about to be unearthed.
When a human skull is dug up in a garden near Boston, Dr Maura Isles is called in to investigate. She quickly discovers that the skeleton - that of a young woman - has been buried for over a hundred years. But who was the young woman? And how did she die?
It is the 1830s, and an impoverished medical student, Norris Marshall, is forced to procure corpse...
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Mephisto Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780552213851
RRP: $21.95
Christmas Eve in Boston is no holy night for medical examiner Dr Maura Isles.
In a rundown house a woman has been dismembered in an act of carnage that leaves veteran cops in shock. The last person called from the dead girl's phone is Dr Joyce O'Donnell, a celebrity psychiatrist who's made her name defending serial murderers.
But there are other clues that make the police wonder if t...
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The Mephisto Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553817805
RRP: $14.95
Christmas Eve in Boston is no holy night for medical examiner Dr Maura Isles. In a rundown house a woman has been dismembered in an act of carnage that leaves veteran cops in shock. The last person called from the dead girl's phone is Dr Joyce O'Donnell, a celebrity psychiatrist who's made her name defending serial murderers. But there are other clues that make the police wonder if thi...
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Harvest
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553817720
RRP: $14.95
As a teenager, Abby DiMatteo watched helplessly as her ten-year-old brother Pete died in a coma. She vowed that one day she would make it up to him by becoming a surgeon and saving other lives. Now she's a surgical resident at Bayside Hospital, and her dream is about to come true.
When Dr Bill Archer invites her to join his elite heart transplant team at Bayside, it seems that all the years...
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Vanish
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553816839
RRP: $14.95
The beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. But when medical examiner Maura Isles looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life.
The corpse opens its eyes.
Now very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where she murders a security guard and seizes hostages, one of whom is the heavily pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli.
But who is this woma...
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Life Support
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553817737
RRP: $14.95
No hospital could have been prepared for the man Dr Toby Harper admits one quiet night to the Springer Hospital. Delirious and in critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain, he barely responds to treatment. And then he disappears without trace.
Under fire from the hospital administration for literally losing a patient, and fearful that she's missed a life-threatening dia...
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Body Double
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553815030
RRP: $14.95
Returning home from Paris, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is greeted by a nightmarish scene. Slumped in a car in her driveway is a dead woman, a gunshot wound to her head. Cops and neighbours stare at her as she approaches; and when Maura looks into the car, she understands why. The body on the front seat is her mirror image.
In the autopsy that follows, Maura discovers more and more paralle...
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Apprentice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553817072
RRP: $14.95
He may be behind bars, but Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, bequeathing his evil legacy to a student all too diligent - and all too deadly.
A year has passed since the capture of the Surgeon, serial killer Warren Hoyt, yet the memory of his brutal crimes continues to haunt Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. Now she faces a new killer, a hunter who preys on well-to-do couples. For Ri...
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The Surgeon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553817065
RRP: $14.95
Today they will find her body. I know how it will happen. I can picture, quite vividly, the sequence of events that will lead to the discovery . . .
In Boston, there's a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on his victims before finishing them off. His surgical skills lead police to suspect h...
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The Sinner
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553815023
RRP: $14.95
Not even the icy temperatures of a New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered in the early morning hours at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the sanctuary walls of the cloistered convent, now stained with blood, lie two nuns - one dead, one critically injured: victims of an unspeakably savage attack.
The brutal crime appears to be without motive and t...
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Gravity
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006513087
RRP: $16.99
Dr Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. Jack McCallum, Emma's estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded and embittered him. He must watch from the sidelines as his wife prepares for her first mission to the International Space Station.
Once aboard th...
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Bloodstream
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006513070
RRP: $16.99
In April came the rains. In August came the heat. In November came the horror. It's paying a return visit.
Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake the small resort town of Tranquility Maine seems like the perfect spot for Dr Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son Noah from the temptations of the big city and the lingering memory of his father's death. And she's hopeful t...
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The Silent Girl
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345515506
RRP: $33.95
Discovering primate hair at the scene of a grisly murder in Chinatown, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles discover clues linked to the fable of the Monkey King. By the best-selling author of Ice Cold. 250,000 first printing....
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Ice Cold
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345515490
RRP: $10.95
Stranded with her traveling companions in an eerily deserted Wyoming village during a blizzard, Maura discovers that they are being watched and pursues help when a party member is injured, an effort that turns nightmarish when she is abducted into the woods....
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The Keepsake
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345497635
RRP: $10.95
Medical examiner Maura Isles is shocked to discover that a supposedly ancient mummy is actually a recent murder victim, and joins forces with Boston PD detective Jane Rizzoli in an investigation that uncovers other similar crimes....
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The Keepsake
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780739327142
RRP: $32.95
Invited to witness the X-ray scanning of a mummy, medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the mummy is not centuries old, but rather is a recent murder victim, and joins forces with Boston PD detective Jane Rizzoli in an investigation that uncovers other similar crimes tied to a diabolical predator who has already targeted his next victim. (Suspense)...
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The Bone Garden
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345497611
RRP: $10.95
The discovery of the skeleton of a woman murdered nearly two centuries earlier sends Boston medical examiner Maura Isles on the trail of a long-dead serial killer who terrorized Boston with crimes in which Norris Marshall, a Harvard Medical School student and reluctant resurrectionist, had become the prime suspect and enlisted the help of classmate Oliver Wendell Holmes to find and stop the murder...
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Vanish
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345476982
RRP: $10.95
FBI agent Gabriel Dean rushes into action to protect his pregnant wife, homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, when she is taken hostage along with others at the hospital by Nicholas Tennant, a black-ops agent in possession of high-level government secrets....
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Gravity
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780671016777
RRP: $10.95
Chosen to conduct a three-month series of NASA experiments with single-cell organisms called Archaeons, Dr. Emma McCallum soon discovers the terrifying nature of these organisms and must try to stop a deadly disease that could threaten the entire world. Reissue....
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Life Support
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780671553043
RRP: $10.95
When an elderly patient with a viral infection of the brain vanishes from the emergency room, ER resident Toby Harper finds her job and home life coming under intense scrutiny, while her search for the missing patient uncovers a frightening epidemic and nightmarish conspiracy...
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Harvest
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780671553029
RRP: $10.95
Spurred by the death of a younger sibling to pursue a medical career, surgical resident Abby DiMatteo is delighted by her recruitment into a cardiac transplant team, until she is forced to choose between two patients...
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Bloodstream
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780671016760
RRP: $10.95
The author of Vanish pits Claire Elliot, a small-town doctor and widowed mother, against a shocking conspiracy behind an epidemic for which she herself is forced to take the blame. Reissue....
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Body Double
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345458940
RRP: $10.95
Returning from Paris to discover a murder victim in her driveway, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the victim looks exactly like her and is a twin sister she never knew....
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Call After Midnight
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780727880451
RRP: $36.95
Newlywed Sarah Fontaine must join forces with special agent Nick O'Hara to find her husband Geoffrey, who is presumed dead, and as they journey to Europe to discover the truth, they become the pawns in a deadly game of espionage....
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The Apprentice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345447869
RRP: $10.95
Although serial killer Warren Hoyt is behind bars, a copycat-at-large continues his legacy of murders performed with twisted medical techniques....
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The Mephisto Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345477002
RRP: $10.95
On Christmas Eve, Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles is summoned to the scene of a brutal killing and teams up with Detective Jane Rizzoli to investigate the victim's ties to Joyce O'Donnell, a cantankerous psychologist, and to a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club, a group devoted to a study of evil in all its malevolent forms. Reprint....
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The Sinner
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345458926
RRP: $10.95
Investigating the brutal murder of one nun and the critical injury of another within a cloistered convent, medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli stumble upon long-buried secrets that link these horrific crimes....
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The Surgeon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345447845
RRP: $10.95
Dr. Catherine Cordell, recovering from a brutal attack and hiding her fear behind a mask of professionalism, is the only one who can stop a psychotic killer known as "The Surgeon," due to his horrific methods of murder, before he kills again. Reissue....
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Body Double
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780593050507
Returning home from Paris, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is greeted by a nightmarish scene.
Slumped in a car in her driveway is a dead woman, a gunshot wound to her head. Cops and neighbours stare at her as she approaches; and when Maura looks into the car, she understands why. The body on the front seat is her mirror image. In the autopsy that follows, Maura discovers more and more parall...
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Bone Garden
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780593057780
Newly divorced Julia Hamill is digging in her back garden when she uncovers a human skull belonging to a woman which, according to medical examiner Maura Isles, is over a century old. So begins a story that goes back to the 1830s; to a teaching hospital in Boston where doctors with dirty hands spread infection, when labouring mothers are crammed two a hospital bed on sheets still encrusted with t...
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Girl Missing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553820294
THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY. She's young. She's beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside.
THE NEXT BODY IS A WARNING. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets. The police are scepti...
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Girl Missing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780593062753
THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY.
She's young. She's beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Cat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a notebook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside.
THE NEXT BODY IS A WARNING.
When a second victim is discovered, Cat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the city streets: a shadowy madman wi...
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Harvest
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780747253105
As a teenager, Abby DiMatteo watched helplessly as her ten-year-old brother Pete died in a coma. She vowed that one day she would make it up to him by becoming a surgeon and saving other lives. Now she's a surgical resident at Bayside Hospital, and her dream is about to come true.
When Dr Bill Archer invites her to join his elite heart transplant team at Bayside, it seems that all the years...
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Ice Cold
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345515483
Stranded with her traveling companions in an eerily deserted Wyoming village during a blizzard, Maura discovers that they are being watched and pursues help when a party member is injured, an effort that turns nightmarish when she is abducted into the woods. By the best-selling author of Harvest. 250,000 first printing....
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Ice Cold
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781602858435
Stranded with her traveling companions in an eerily deserted Wyoming village during a blizzard, Maura discovers that they are being watched and pursues help when a party member is injured, an effort that turns nightmarish when she is abducted into the woods. By the best-selling author of Harvest. (Suspense)....
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In Their Footsteps & Thief of Hearts
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780778327042
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Keeping The Dead
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780593057803
She's Pilgrim Hospital's most unusual patient, and on this Saturday night, a media circus is gathered to record every minute of her visit to the X-ray department. Crammed into the small CT scan room are reporters, TV cameras, a select group of medical technicians - and Dr Maura Isles. Maura is there as a forensic pathologist because the patient being scanned tonight isn't alive. She...
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OE - The Silent Girl
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780593063255
When a severed hand, clutching a gun, is found in a Chinatown alley in downtown Boston, detective Jane Rizzoli climbs to the adjacent roof-top and finds the hand's owner: a red-haired woman whose throat has been slashed so deeply the head is nearly severed. She is dressed all in black, and the only clues to her identity are a throwaway cell phone and a scrawled address of a long-shuttered rest...
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Presumed Guilty/In Their Footsteps
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781741164961
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The Apprentice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780552212007
'I know I am not the only one of my kind who walks this earth. Somewhere, there is another. And he waits for me . . .'
A year has passed since the capture of the Surgeon, serial killer Warren Hoyt, yet the memory of his brutal crimes continues to haunt Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli.
Now she faces a new killer, a hunter who preys on well-to-do couples, forcing the husbands to w...
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The Apprentice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553814323
The chilling follow-up to 'The Surgeon'.
A year has passed since the capture of serial killer Warren Hoyt, yet the memory of his brutal crimes continues to haunt Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli.
Now she faces a new killer, a hunter who preys on well-to-do couples, forcing the husbands to watch as their wives are sexually assaulted. The killer's final act is swift and pitiless...
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The Apprentice
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780593049150
Serial killer Warren Hoyt was captured a year ago but his crimes still haunt Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. Now she faces a new killer, a hunter who preys on rich couples and copies an obscure element of Hoyt's crimes. And when Hoyt escapes from custody there are two hunters on the loose....
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The Apprentice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780593049990
A year has passed since the capture of serial killer Warren Hoyt, yet the memory of his brutal crimes continues to haunt Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli.
Now she faces a new killer, a hunter who preys on well-to-do couples, forcing the husbands to watch as their wives are sexually assaulted. The killer's final act is swift and pitiless: a single bullet to the husband's head. Then...
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The Bone Garden
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345497604
The discovery of the skeleton of a woman murdered two centuries earlier sends medical examiner Maura Isles on the trail of a long-dead serial killer who terrorized Boston with crimes in which Norris Marshall, a Harvard Medical School student, had become the prime suspect....
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The Bone Garden
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780593067864
Julia Hamill is gardening one afternoon in rural Massachusetts when her spade strikes something soft and unyielding - not a rock but a human skull.
Medical examiner Maura Isles quickly determines that the skeleton - that of a woman - dates back to the early 1800s.'But too much time has passed,' Maura warns Julia. 'We may never know the whole story of how she died.'
Boston in the ...
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The Bone Garden
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780739327135
The discovery of the skeleton of a woman murdered two centuries earlier sends medical examiner Maura Isles on the trail of a long-dead serial killer who terrorized Boston with crimes in which Norris Marshall, a Harvard Medical School student, had become the prime suspect....
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The Keepsake
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345497628
When a perfectly preserved "mummy" is discovered in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum and an archaeologist turns up missing, medical examiner Maura Isles and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli have precious little time to derail the Archaeology Killer before he adds another chilling piece to his monstrous collection....
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The Killing Place
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780593063231
Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Meals remain untouched on dining room tables. Cars are still parked in garages. The human occupants have vanished, seemingly into thin air. This is the unsettling place where Maura Isles finds herself trapped during a snowstorm. She has joined a group of fr...
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The Mephisto Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780593055915
Christmas Eve in Boston is no holy night for medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles.
In a rundown house a woman has been dismembered in an act of carnage that leaves veteran cops in shock. The last person called from the dead girl's phone is Dr. Joyce O'Donnell, a celebrity psychiatrist who's made her name defending serial murderers. But there are other clues that make the police wonder if...
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The Mephisto Club
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780593055922
Christmas Eve in Boston is no holy night for medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles when Detective Jane Rizzoli summons her from midnight mass to the scene of an unspeakably gruesome homicide. In a ramshackle apartment, bathed in blood, a young woman has been dismembered in an act of carnage that has left even veteran cops in shock. The only clue is the identity of the last person called from the dead g...
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The Mephisto Club
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780739326244
On Christmas Eve, Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles is summoned to the scene of a brutal killing and teams up with Detective Jane Rizzoli to investigate the victim's ties to Joyce O'Donnell, a cantankerous psychologist, and to a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club, a group devoted to a study of evil in all its malevolent forms. (Suspense)...
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The Sinner
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780593050484
Thou shalt not kill . . .
From the bestselling author of 'The Surgeon' and 'The Apprentice' comes a chilling new novel uncovering the work of a madman who's committed a truly unholy crime.
Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered in the early morning hours at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. W...
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The Sinner ( Limited Edition)
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553819540
Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered in the early morning hours at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the sanctuary walls of the cloistered convent, now stained with blood, lie two nuns - one dead, one critically injured; victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without mot...
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The Surgeon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553814293
Hot sultry summer in downtown Boston, and homicide detective Thomas Moore is called back from holiday to be told there's a serial killer at large.
This isn't just any serial killer. This is a predator who targets lone women, breaks into their apartments in the early hours of the morning, and commits bizarre ritualistic acts of torture on his victims before finishing them off. The killer&...
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Under The Knife / Whistleblower
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741162622
'Under The Knife'
Had she condemned her patient to die? Or was it murder?
For David Ranson, it begins as an open-and-shut case. Malpractice. As attorney for a grieving family, he's determined to hang a negligent doctor. The Dr Kate Chesne storms into his office, daring him to seek out the truth - that she's being framed.
Then when another body is discovered, David begins to ques...
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