WILL EXERT A POWERFUL GRIP ON READERS.'- Chicago Tribune 'A BRISKLY PACED, TERRIFICALLY SUSPENSEFUL WORK THAT STEADILY BUILDS TOWARD A TENSE AND TERRIFYING CLIMAX.'- People, Page-turner of the week 'THIS IS A STORY THAT TERRIFIES AND HEARTENS ALL AT ONCE. will exert a powerful grip on readers.'- Chicago Tribune An all-nighter.'- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 'Creepy. Sharp characters stitch your eye to the page.

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. With every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home. Now this new killer is re-creating, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell's ordeal. Catherine Cordell fought back and filled an attacker before he could complete his assault. 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. It's a real shame they couldn't make more of an effort in the editting.About the Book Originally published: Ballantine Books, 2001.īook Synopsis 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. This becomes especially annoying in tense exciting bits and pulls you right out of the story. Then there's the bad audio editting where whole sections of book are repeated verbatim. Were it not for 'he said' and 'she said' you would have no chance of following.

Not only are the voices different and Rizzoli's name now pronounced with a 'T' but the voices get muddled by the narrator with women sometimes having the deep masculine voices of the colleagues they are conversing with while sometimes having their normal voices. I listened to this directly after the surgeon so noticed the change in narrator immediately.

Isles is a background character again which makes me wonder how many books were written before the series was called 'Rizzoli & Isles'. Doesn't actually paint the main character in a very flattering light nor does the chip on her shoulder she has towards men in general although that character flaw is adressed somewhat. Unlike the first book where they deduced the killer's identity with clues this was more like an adventure book where the killer becomes revealed to them. This also isn't very murder-mystery-esque. I was expecting this to be the next episode in the life of Jane Rizzoli but it was very much a sequel to the last and I think you would need to read the first one.

The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen