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Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms the startling fact : the mysterious doppelganger is in fact her twin sister. Now an already bizarre homicide investigation becomes a disturbing...

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Main Author: Gerritsen, Tess.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, 2004, 2014.
Series: Rizzoli & Isles novel ; 4.
Subjects:
Police > Massachusetts > Boston > Fiction.
Twins > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Homicide > Fiction.
Mystery fiction. > Massachusetts
Summary: Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms the startling fact : the mysterious doppelganger is in fact her twin sister. Now an already bizarre homicide investigation becomes a disturbing excursion into a past full of dark secrets and twisted truths. It is a journey that leads Maura to the mother she never knew--an icy and cunning woman who gave Maura life...and who just might have a plan to take it away.
Item Description: Contains an excerpt from 'Girl Missing' by Tess Gerritsen (originally published in the United States as 'Peggy Sue Got Murdered' and in the UK as 'Girl Missing').
Includes bonus short story 'John Doe' featuring Rizzoli & Isles.
Physical Description: 498 pages
ISBN: 9780345547712
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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