Author: Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, surgeon
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-07
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345447840
ISBN-13: 9780345447845

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.He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. 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 crim

Author: Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: book, rizzoli, jane, apprentice
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2003-07-29
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345447867
ISBN-13: 9780345447869

The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns—and so does that chilling novel’s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly.THE APPRENTICEIt is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city’s woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death.The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city’s streets. Poli

Author: Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: harvest
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 067155302X
ISBN-13: 9780671553029

Medical resident Dr. Abby Matteo is elated when the elite cardiac transplant team at Boston’s Bayside Hospital taps her as a potential recruit. But faced with a tormenting life-and-death decision, Abby helps direct a crash victim’s harvested heart to a dying teenager -- instead of the wealthy older woman who was supposed to receive it. The repercussions leave Abby shaken and plagued with self-doubt. Suddenly, a new heart appears, and the woman’s transplant is completed. Then Abby makes a terrible discovery. The donor records have been falsified -- the new heart has not come

Author: Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: support, life
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1998-08-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0671553046
ISBN-13: 9780671553043

New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen weaves authenticity into another novel of searing medical suspense, as a dedicated woman doctor probes into the cause of a mystifying and lethal outbreak. The quiet overnight shift at Springer Hospital ER suits Dr. Toby Harper just fine -- until she admits a man in critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain. The delirious man barely responds to treatment -- and then disappears without a trace. Before Toby can find him, a second case occurs, revealing a terrifying fact: the virus can only be spread through direct tissue exc

Author: Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: isles, novels, amp, rizzoli, novel, keepsake
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-08-25
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345497635
ISBN-13: 9780345497635

For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Boston’s Crispin Museum. Dubbed “Madam X,” the recently rediscovered mummy is, to all appearances, an ancient Egyptian artifact. But medical examiner Maura Isles discovers a macabre message hidden within the corpse–horrifying proof that this “centuries-old” relic is instead a modern-day murder victim. When the grisly remains of two other women are found, it becomes clear to Maura and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli that a maniac is at large. Now Maura and Jane must unravel a murderer�

Author: Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: suspense, medical, novel, gravity
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0671016776
ISBN-13: 9780671016777

A young NASA doctor must combat a lethal microbe that is multiplying in the deadliest of environments -- space -- in this acclaimed blockbuster of medical suspense from Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of Harvest, Life Support, and Bloodstream. Gravity Dr. Emma Watson has been training for the adventure of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. But her mission aboard the International Space Station turns into a nightmare beyond imagining when a culture of single-celled organisms begins to regenerate out of control -- and infects the space station crew with agonizing and deadly resul

Author: Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: vanish
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-08-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0345476972
ISBN-13: 9780345476975

A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double.A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes. Very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospi