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The surgeon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "A briskly paced, terrifically suspenseful work that steadily builds toward a tense and terrifying climax." -- People (Page-turner of the week) He slips into homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, about to awaken to a living ni...

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Main Author: Gerritsen, Tess.
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language: English
Published: 2001.
Series: Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles.
Subjects:
Boston (Mass.) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Electronic books.
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Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "A briskly paced, terrifically suspenseful work that steadily builds toward a tense and terrifying climax." -- People (Page-turner of the week) He slips into homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, about to awaken to a living nightmare. The precision of his methods suggests that he is a deranged man of medicine, prompting the Boston newspapers to dub him "The Surgeon." Led by Detectives Thomas Moore and Jane Rizzoli, the cops must consult the victim of a nearly identical crime: Two years ago, Dr. Catherine Cordell fought back and filled an attacker before he could complete his assault. Now this new killer is re-creating, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell's ordeal. With every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home. And neither Moore nor Rizzoli can protect Cordell from a ruthless hunter who somehow understands -- and savors -- the secret fears of every woman he kills. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Tess Gerritsen's Die Again. "[A] top-grade thriller . . . Sharp characters stitch your eye to the page. An all-nighter." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Creepy . . . will exert a powerful grip on readers." -- Chicago Tribune
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ISBN: 9780345449436
Author Notes: Tess Gerritsen was born on June 12, 1953 in San Diego, California. She received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco. While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. Her first novel, Call After Midnight was published in 1987. It was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote the screenplay, Adrift, which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.

Her first medical thriller, Harvest, was published in 1996. She is the author of the Rizzoli and Isles series, which was adapted into a television show. She has won several awards including the Nero Wolfe Award for Vanish and the Rita Award for The Surgeon. She retired from the medical field and writes full-time. Her other novels include Presumed Guilty, Harvest, Gravity, The Bone Garden, and Playing with Fire.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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