The surgeon

A female heart surgeon, terrorized by a serial killer in Boston using the same MO as a killer who attacked her during her internship years in Savannah, works with a detective to solve the crime while trying to stay alive.

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Main Author: Gerritsen, Tess (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, 2016.
Edition:Ballantine Books premium mass market edition.
Series:Gerritsen, Tess. Rizzoli & Isles novel ; 1.
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Summary:A female heart surgeon, terrorized by a serial killer in Boston using the same MO as a killer who attacked her during her internship years in Savannah, works with a detective to solve the crime while trying to stay alive.
Item Description:Originally published: Ballantine Books, 2001.
Includes an excerpt of Rizzoli & Isles: Die Again (pages 425-453).
Physical Description:453 pages ; 19 cm.
ISBN:9781101887424
1101887427
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)