Tess Gerritsen

Vanish

5 stars (Excellent...) - I have read several of this authors' books and have never been disappointed. This one was no exception. Well written and suspenseful. It kept me guessing all the way through it. We even see a little bit more of the personal side of Jane Rizzoli, something that I think may have been lacking in the last two books. I did think that this was a pretty quick read, but still hughly recommend it. 5 stars (Page-turning thriller brings an ugly subject into the light) - Bestselling author Gerritsen delivers another page-turning nail biter, well grounded by the prickly, independent characters of Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles. In a brief, searing prologue, a terrified Russian girl recounts a story as commonplace as it is horrifying. Poor, without prospects, Mila is persuaded to emigrate to America with the promise of a good job. But once she and the other six girls have embarked it becomes obvious her guides are actually captors. Crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. they are greeted by four American men who brutally rape them, then shoot one who tries to run away, leaving her body for the vultures. The narrative then switches to Maura Isles. It's a summer night after a long day and the medical examiner enters her gleaming, deserted morgue to check the position of a corpse's tattoo. As she zips the body bag and turns to leave she hears a noise, dismisses it, then hears it again. Something moving in a body bag. There's a row of them in the busy city morgue and Isles quickly unzips one after another until she comes to a young woman with cold, bluish skin but no obvious wounds or autopsy sutures. "She pressed her fingers to the woman's neck and felt icy skin. Bending close to the lips, she waited for the whisper of a breath, the faintest puff of air against her cheek. The corpse opened its eyes." Meanwhile Jane Rizzoli's baby is overdue and the homicide cop is restless and uncomfortable. Her water ...
Random House Publishing Group :: Fiction-Suspense :: Fiction - Psychological Suspense :: Tess Gerritsen :: :: Vanish