Hätte Nina Cormier ihrem Verlobten das Ja-Wort gegeben, wäre sie jetzt tot. Doch da er sie in letzter Minute vor dem Altar stehen lassen hat, explodiert die Bombe in einer leeren Kirche. Detective Sam Navarro vom Portland Police Departement steht vor einem Rätsel: Hat der Anschlag etwas mit der Bombenexplosion zu tun, die Navarros Partner erst kürzlich das Leben kostete? Oder war die Kirche vielleicht doch nur ein rein zufällig ausgewähltes Ziel? Die Tat trug die Handschrift des berüchtigten Attentäters Vincent Spectre - aber der ist seit einem halben Jahr tot. Navarros einziger Anhaltspunkt ist und bleibt Nina. Und so kümmert er sich ab sofort persönlich um ihre Sicherheit - in der Hoffnung, tiefere Einblicke zu gewinnen ...
Polisiye meraklılarının kaçırmaması gereken bir roman. Tess Gerritsen'in en iyi kitaplarından biri.
San Francisco Review of Books
Korku filmi yapımcısı genç bir kadınla, bekâr bir muhasebecinin cesedi bulunduğunda bu iki farklı cinayeti birbirine bağlayan hiçbir kanıt yoktur ortada. Cesetlerde belirgin yaralar bulunsa da ölüm sebebi belli değildir. Adli tabip Maura Isles bu iki cinayetin birbirine bağlı olabileceğini düşününce, dedektif Jane Rizzoli hummalı bir araştırmaya girişir.
Soruşturma geçmişte büyük bir taciz vakasının kurbanı olan genç bir kadına, gerçek bir hikâyeye dayanması muhtemel bir korku filmine, gaddar ve sıra dışı ölümlere maruz kalmış azizlere doğru genişler. Rizzoli ile Isles tam katili köşeye sıkıştırdıklarını düşündüklerinde çok uzun süre saklı kalmış bir sır yüzeye çıkıp başka masumların da hayatını tehdit etmeye başlar...
With her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, in a new blockbuster, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak -- before it destroys everything she loves.
Lapped by he 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 distractions of the big city and the lingering memory of his father's death. But with the first snap of winter comes shocking news that puts her practise on the line: a teenage boy under her care has committed an appalling act of violence. And as Claire and all of Tranquility soon discover, it is just the start of a chain of lethal outbursts among the town's teenagers.
As the rash of disturbing behavior grows, Claire uncovers a horrifying secret: this is not the first time it has happened. Twice a century,the children of Tranquility lash out with deadly violence. Claire suspects that there is a biological cause for the epidemic, and she fears that the placid Locust Lake may conceal an insidious danger. As she races to save Tranquility -- and her son -- from harm, Claire discovers an even greater threat: a shocking conspiracy to manipulate nature, and turn innocents to slaughter.
Tranquility, Maine seems like the perfect place for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son from the distractions of the big city -- until a deadly epidemic threatens to destroy everyone she loves.
Boston medical examiner Dr. 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.
Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. 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. But never before has her blood run cold, and never has the grim expression “dead ringer” rung so terrifyingly true. Because never before has the lifeless body on the medical examiner’s table been her own.
Yet there can be no denying the mind-reeling evidence before her shocked eyes and those of her colleagues, including Detective Jane Rizzoli: the woman found shot to death outside Maura’s home is the mirror image of Maura, down to the most intimate physical nuances. Even more chilling is the discovery that they share the same birth date and blood type. For the stunned Maura, an only child, there can be just one explanation. 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.
Searching for answers, Maura is drawn to a seaside town in Maine where other horrifying surprises await. But perhaps more frightening, an unknown murderer is at large on a cross-country killing spree. To stop the massacre and uncover the twisted truth about her own roots, Maura must probe her first living subject: the mother that she never knew . . . an icy and cunning woman who could be responsible for giving Maura life–and who just may have a plan to take it away.
Boston medical examiner Dr. 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.
Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. 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. But never before has her blood run cold, and never has the grim expression dead ringer rung so terrifyingly true. Because never before has the lifeless body on the medical examiners table been her own.
Yet there can be no denying the mind-reeling evidence before her shocked eyes and those of her colleagues, including Detective Jane Rizzoli: the woman found shot to death outside Mauras home is the mirror image of Maura, down to the most intimate physical nuances. Even more chilling is the discovery that they share the same birth date and blood type. For the stunned Maura, an only child, there can be just one explanation. And when a DNA test confirms that Mauras 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.
Searching for answers, Maura is drawn to a seaside town in Maine where other horrifying surprises await. But perhaps more frightening, an unknown murderer is at large on a cross-country killing spree. To stop the massacre and uncover the twisted truth about her own roots, Maura must probe her first living subject: the mother that she never knew . . . an icy and cunning woman who could be responsible for giving Maura life -and who just may have a plan to take it away.
From New York Times bestseller Tess Gerritsen and acclaimed thriller writer Gary Braver comes a sexy murder mystery about a reckless affair and dangerous secrets.
Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant…so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl’s fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there’s more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn’s suicide—or a motive for her murder.
To English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn was the ultimate fantasy: intelligent, adoring, and completely off limits. But there was also a dark side to Taryn, a dangerous streak that threatened those she turned her affections to—including Jack. And now that she’s dead, his problems are just beginning.
After Frankie uncovers a trove of sordid secrets, it becomes clear that Jack may know the truth. He is guilty of deception, but is he capable of cold-blooded murder?
Rizzoli & Isles'in serisinin ikinci macerası
Boston'da boğucu bir yaz yaşanmaktadır. Kocalarının gözleri önünde saldırıya uğrayan
kadınlar kaçırılıp öldürülür. Cesetleri günler sonra bulunur.
Katilin yöntemi, dedektif Jane Rizzoli'nin bir yıl önce hapse attırdığı seri katil Warren Hoyt'unkine çok benzemektedir. Rizzoli'nin bu cinayetlerde Hoyt'tan izler görmesini yaşadığı travmaya bağlayanlar mı haklıdır, yoksa Warren Hoyt –Cerrah– kendisine bir çırak mı bulmuştur?
Cerrah'ın yazarı Tess Gerritsen'den yine soluk soluğa, müthiş bir roman...
Una bella mujer anónima parece ser solo otro cadáver más en la morgue. Tras un supuesto suicidio, yace sobre una camilla, aguardando el bisturí de la médica forense Maura Isles. Pero cuando Maura abre la bolsa que contiene el cadáver y lo mira, se lleva el susto de su vida. El cadáver abre los ojos.
La mujer está indudablemente viva, y tras ser llevada al hospital, con serena y espeluznante precisión mata a un guardia de seguridad y toma varios rehenes… uno de los cuales es una paciente embarazada, Jane Rizzoli.
¿Quién es este ser violento y desesperado y qué busca? A medida que transcurren las horas de tensión, Maura se une al esposo de Jane, el agente Gabriel Dean, del FBI, para rastrear la identidad de la misteriosa asesina. Cuando súbitamente aparecen agentes federales en escena, Maura y Gabriel comprenden que están tratando con un caso que va mucho más profundo que una típica toma de rehenes
Solo Jane, atrapada con la mujer armada y fuera de sí, tiene la clave del misterio. Y solo ella puede resolverlo… si sobrevive.
When Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are summoned to a crime scene, they find a killing worthy of the most ferocious beast—right down to the claw marks on the corpse. But only the most sinister human hands could have left renowned big-game hunter and taxidermist Leon Gott gruesomely displayed like the once-proud animals whose heads adorn his walls. Did Gott unwittingly awaken a predator more dangerous than any he had ever hunted? Maura fears that this isn’t the killer’s first slaughter, and that it won’t be the last. After linking the crime to a series of unsolved homicides in wilderness areas across the country, she wonders if the answers might actually be found in a remote corner of Africa. Six years earlier, a group of tourists on safari fell prey to a killer in their midst. Marooned deep in the bush of Botswana, with no means of communication and nothing but a rifle-toting guide for protection, the terrified tourists desperately hoped for rescue before their worst instincts—or the wild animals prowling in the shadows—could tear them apart. But the deadliest predator was already among them, and within a week, he walked away with the blood of all but one of them on his hands. Now this killer has chosen Boston as his new hunting ground, and Rizzoli and Isles must find a way to lure him out of the shadows and into a cage. Even if it means dangling the bait no hunter can resist: the one victim who got away.
The latest enthralling case in Tess Gerritsen's New York Times bestselling Rizzoli & Isles series, the blockbuster books behind the smash hit TNT series.Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli is on the case of a big game hunter found dead in his apartment, alone with the body of a beautiful white snow leopard he had recently been commissioned to procure and stuff for a high-profile museum in the area. Medical examiner Maura Isles connects the case to a number of seemingly unrelated deaths where the victims have all been found hanging upside down, the hallmark of a leopard's kill. Rizzoli follows the puzzling trail of clues all the way to Botswana, where she uncovers the unsolved mystery of a deadly camping safari four years prior. When she realizes the two cases are connected, Rizzoli must track down the sole survivor of the tragic trip to discover who—or what—is behind these gruesome deaths.
