One of Lisa Gardner's favourite books.
January 2011 Guest Editor Lisa Gardner on Tess Gerritsen...
While I’m a huge fan of her characters Rizzoli and Isles, my favourite novel remains The Bone Garden, a historic thriller that captures gruesome medical practices in the 1830s, when surgeons unwittingly cross-contaminated their patients and the demand for black market medical cadavers kept grave robbers in business. The Bone Garden is a thriller that both entertains and informs, my favourite kind of book.
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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 woman? And how did she die? It is the 1930s, and an impoverished medical student, Norris Marshall, is forced to procure corpses in order to further his studies in human anatomy. It's a gruesome livelihood that will bring him into contact with a terrifying serial killer who slips from ballrooms to graveyards and into autopsy suites. And who is far, far closer than Norris could ever imagine...
The Bone Garden features in the following genres: Historical Fiction, Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
The Bone Garden is available in Paperback, CD-Audio
The Bone Garden was written by Tess Gerritsen and published by Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group) an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd
The Bone Garden has 528 pages
£10.79
