' Great book! I watched the TV series for a while but vastly enjoyed the books more! ' - Jennifer, A good listen on a commute because it doesn't need much attention. If you are looking for Isles, she doesn't appear until book 3, I'm told. ' Good whodunnit written by someone who actually knows the medical stuff. ' When I realized that the new TV series Rizzoli & Isles was based on these books, I wanted to read them first! I was not disappointed! ' - Pam, Looking forward to picking up the next one. ' Very good, a little bloody, but I enjoyed it. We definitely be reading more from this author ' - Sharon, Once I got into I really got into it and did not want it to finish. ' Found this book hard at the start as i have watched the tv series and characters different.

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Tess Gerritsen has written some memorable books and this is one of them. This was the first appearance of Jane Rizzoli, and I found her a bit whiny and abrasive, but I still enjoyed reading about her and the case. I thought it was giving away too much about his identity, and I wanted to be more surprised. I was a little annoyed by the parts where we are in the killer's head. I stayed up late reading it, because I wanted to find out what would happen. Exposing the shocking link between those who kill and cure, punish and protect, The Surgeon is Tess Gerritsen's most exciting accomplishment yet. and peopled with rich and complex characters-from the ER to the squad room to the city morgue-here is a thriller of unprecedented depth and suspense. Filled with the authentic detail that is the trademark of this doctor turned author.

But even Moore cannot protect Cordell from a brilliant hunter who somehow understands-and savors-the secret fears of every woman he kills. Her only comfort comes from Thomas Moore, the detective assigned to the case. With every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home. Cordell's careful facade is about to crack as this new killer recreates, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell's own ordeal. Now she hides her fears of intimacy behind a cool and elegant exterior and a well-earned reputation as a top trauma surgeon. Catherine Cordell fought back and killed her attacker before he could complete his assault. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him 'The Surgeon.' The cops' only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim of a nearly identical crime. He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil-and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again.

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