Tess Gerritsen

La doctora Maura Isles se gana la vida relacionándose con la muerte. En calidad de patóloga de una gran área metropolitana, ha visto más cadáveres de lo que desearía, muchos de ellos víctimas de crímenes violentos. Sin embargo, nunca se le había helado la sangre: nunca había sido suyo el cuerpo sin vida expuesto en la mesa del forense. El cadáver hallado frente a la casa de Maura es la viva imagen de la doctora, incluso en los detalles físicos más íntimos. Pero más aterrador resulta el descubrimiento de que Maura y la mujer asesinada comparten la misma fecha de nacimiento y el mismo tipo de sangre. Para Maura, que es hija única, sólo cabe una explicación. Cuando la prueba de ADN confirma que su misteriosa doble es su hermana gemela, una investigación criminal ya fuera de lo normal se convierte en una turbadora y peligrosa incursión en un pasado lleno de secretos.

A 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 hospital where she murders a security guard and seizes hostages‚ one of whom is heavily pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. But who is this woman? What does she want? Only Jane can solve the mystery‚ if she can survive the night.

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 their nightmare has only just begun.Days later, Jane Rizzoli flies to Wyoming to search for her missing friend. A crashed vehicle has been found with four badly burned bodies still inside. Can one of the corpses be Maura's? Jane's hunt for the truth leads her to Kingdom Come. Where the person who was watching Maura now lies waiting for her …

Evensong is a school for orphaned children whove been traumatized by violent crime. Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles have connections with two of its students, but they discover that even a school protected by locked gates and acres of forest cannot shut out a gathering threat. As Jane and Maura struggle to interpret the clues, the resourceful students of Evensong are also investigating...

Boston, Chinatown. Eine alte Legende erwacht zum Leben ...Jahraus, jahrein werden sie an den schrecklichen Tag erinnert, da in einem Restaurant in Chinatown ein Amoklaufer ihre Angehorigen hinrichtete. Doch wer schreibt die Briefe, die besagen, dass der wahre Tater noch immer nicht gefasst sei? Erst als zwei Jahrzehnte spater bei einer Stadtfuhrung durch Boston die Leiche einer Frau gefunden wird, die mit einem chinesischen Ritualschwert verstummelt wurde, wird der alte Fall wieder aufgerollt. Und nicht immer haben Jane Rizzoli und Maura Isles bei den Ermittlungen das Gefuhl, es mit einem leibhaftigen Gegner aus Fleisch und Blut zu tun zu haben ...

Al regresar de un viaje de negocios a París, la Dra. Maura Isles se encuentra su casa de Boston precintada como la escena de un crimen. La víctima, para asombro de Isles, no solo es idéntica a ella, sino que todas las pruebas forenses confirman que podria tratarse de su hermana gemela. En compañia de su inseparable colega, la detective Jean Rizzoli, Isles iniciara una investigacion que la llevara a indagar en aspectos de su propio pasado que desconocia y que no podia haber imaginado ni en sus peores pesadillas. El inquie-tante crimen de su alter ego a las puertas de su propio domicilio sera solo el ultimo de una serie de asesinatos que se remontan a cuarenta años atras, con la implicacion de una madre que jamas llego a conocer.Doble cuerpo no solo es una excelente novela de suspense firmada por una de las auto-ras mas respetadas del panorama literario estadounidense actual. Con esta cuarta entrega de la serie de Isles y Rizzoli, Gerritsen demuestra un dominio del genero que ha llevado la critica a compararla con maestros contemporaneos de la talla de Michael Crichton o Stephen King.

Tess Gerritsen left a very successful career as an internist to raise her children and devote more time to writing. After several books that have had moderate success, Gerritsen has now written a gruesome and frightening story that should put her among the top women thriller writers working today.It is the middle of a hot sultry summer in downtown Boston, and Detective Thomas Moore of the city's Homicide Unit is called back from holiday to be told there's a serial killer at large. And this isn't just any serial killer. This is a killer who targets single women, breaks into their apartments in the early hours of the morning, and operates on his victims before killing them. This killer is a surgeon; a surgeon whom, it is soon established, works alongside unsuspecting doctors and nurses in the Pilgrim Medical Center, a surgeon whom, instead of saving lives, takes them in bizarre and terrifying acts of ritualistic torture. As soon as Moore and his sidekick, Rizzoli, the only woman detective in the Homicide Unit, begin their investigation, they make a startling discovery. Most closely involved is Catherine Cordell, a beautiful medic with a mysterious past. Five years previously, she had been the subject of a horrifying rape and attempted murder, but had shot her aggressor dead. Now she is being targeted by someone who seems to know all about her past, her work at the Pilgrim Medical Center, what car she drives and, crucially, where she lives. Once again, it seems, the man she believes she killed is on her case, and this time he knows exactly how to get her...In The Surgeon, Tess Gerritsen has written a high octane, page-turning novel as gripping as it is terrifying. From the opening page, when the surgeon is waiting outside his latest victim's apartment for the police to arrive, to the cataclysmic finale, the writing is slick and assured, the tension unrelenting. Written by a woman for women, this is psychological suspense at its very best.

"Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best." (Harlan Coben the Victims). In Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles investigate a bizarre murder. A man has been found gutted and hanging in his home. When the remains of another victim are found, it is clear that this murderer has been at work for years, and not just in Boston. The Killer: five years ago, a group of travellers set off on an African safari. None of them was seen again - apart from one woman who stumbled out of the bush weeks later, barely alive. The only woman to have seen the killer's face. The Survivor: has the 'safari killer' resurfaced in Boston? Jane is sent to Africa to find the one link between the two cases - the only survivor. And convince her to face death once again...

'With DIE AGAIN Tess Gerritsen proves that she is still at the top of her game. I love this fantastically gripping story and cant wait for more' KARIN SLAUGHTERTHE VICTIMSIn Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles are investigating a bizarre murder. A man has been found gutted and hanging in his home. When the remains of another victim are found, it is clear that this murderer has been at work for years, and not just in Boston.THE KILLERSix years ago, a group of travellers set off on an African safari. None of them are seen again apart from one woman who stumbled out of the bush weeks later, barely alive. The only woman to have seen the killers face.THE SURVIVORHas the safari killer resurfaced in Boston? Jane is sent to Africa to find the one link between the two cases the only survivor - and convince her to face death once again...

HE WATCHESSomething 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.HE WAITSMaura 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 their nightmare has only just begun.THEY DISAPPEARDays later, Jane Rizzoli flies to Wyoming to search for her missing friend. A crashed vehicle has been found with four badly burned bodies still inside. Can one of the corpses be Maura's? Jane's hunt for the truth leads her to Kingdom Come. Where the person who was watching Maura now lies waiting for her ...

The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns and so does that chilling novel s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly. THE APPRENTICE It is a boiling hot Boston summer. 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. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death. The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city s streets. 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. At least that s what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks. Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her literally and figuratively she is determined to finally end Hoyt s awful influence . . . even if it means receiving more resistance from her all-male homicide squad. But Rizzoli isn t counting on the U.S. government s sudden interest. Or on meeting Special Agent Gabriel Dean, who knows more than he will tell. Most of all, she isn t counting on becoming a target herself, once Hoyt is suddenly free, joining his mysterious blood brother in a vicious vendetta. . . . Filled with superbly created characters and the medical and police procedural details that are her trademark The Apprentice is Tess Gerritsen at her brilliant best. Set in a stunning world where evil is easy to learn and hard to end, this is a thriller by a master who could teach other authors a thing or two. From the Hardcover edition."

When Ava arrives at Brodie's Watch, she thinks she has found the perfect place to hide from her past. Something terrible happened, something she is deeply ashamed of, and all she wants is to forget.But the old house on the hill both welcomes and repels her and Ava quickly begins to suspect she is not alone. Either that or she is losing her mind.The house is full of secrets, but is the creeping sense of danger coming from within its walls, or from somewhere else entirely?

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 woman, and what does she want? Only Jane can solve the mystery - if she survives the night.

An apparently dead woman turns out to be alive and kicking--or at least, alive and ready to grab hostages--in the fifth suspenseful installment in the Jane Rizzoli/Maura Isles series. Medical examiner Maura Isles is extremely startled when she observes faint signs of life in a battered young woman lying in the morgue, but that's nothing to her astonishment when the newly revived woman subsequently kills a security guard and takes a number of captives at the hospital, including Maura's friend and colleague Detective Jane Rizzoli, who's in the throes of labor.

Nina Cormier no sabía si debía estar agradecida al destino, a una simple coincidencia o a la suerte. Si su boda se hubiera celebrado, ahora ella estaría muerta, pero gracias a que el novio la había dejado plantada en el altar, la iglesia estaba vacia cuando estallo la bomba. Hasta el momento en el que un desconocido intento sacarla de la carretera, no se dio cuenta de que alguien queria asesinarla. Pero ¿quien? Eso era lo que debia averiguar el detective Sam Navarro. Como buen policia, sabia perfectamente que no debia implicarse con la mujer cuya proteccion se le habia encomendado. Sin embargo, como hombre Envueltos en aquella pesadilla terrible, Sam y Nina descubrieron la increible verdad. Estaban a merced de un loco.