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Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen, ISBN 9780553817065
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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 he is a physician a physician who, instead of saving lives, takes them.
But as homicide detective Thomas Moore and his partner Jane Rizzoli begin their investigation, they make a startling discovery. Closely linked to these killings is Catherine Cordell, a beautiful medic with a mysterious past. Two years ago she was subjected to a horrifying rape and attempted murder but shot her attacker dead. Now she is being targeted by this new killer who appears to know all about her past, her work at the Pilgrim Medical Center, and where she lives. The man she believes she killed seems to be stalking her once again, and this time he knows exactly where to find her . . .
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| ISBN 13: | 9780553817065 |
| ISBN 10: | 055381706X |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Dimensions: | 178 x 108mm |
| Released: | 03/01/2005 |
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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.
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Reviews of Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
Solid story of sordid crime  
Reviewed by Anonymous, 24/12/2009 This was the first Tess Gerritsen book I've read. I'm not a big reader of crime novels, but I do like them from time to time. I thought this one sounded good, and it was. I would try other Tess Gerritsen novels in future.
In The Surgeon, Gerritsen offers the point of view of various key characters: two of the detectives on the case, a long-suffering victim/survivor and the killer himself. Providing such all-encompassing insights sucks much of the mystery and suspense out of the story leaving not a lot to be guessed at, namely the killer's identity. Nonetheless, the book can keep you interested until the very end, mostly thanks to having such well-fleshed out characters.
This is well-written crime fiction. There is nothing particularly exceptional about The Surgeon, but it is recommended for fans of the crime genre or for those (like me) wanting to read something else for a change.
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