The Surgeon

(Rizzoli & Isles series 1)

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

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HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE IT HURTS...

‘This is crime-writing at its nerve-tingling best’
Harlan Coben

A killer is targeting lone women, torturing and murdering them. The precision of his methods leads Detective Jane Rizzoli to suspect he is medically trained.

Then Jane makes a terrifying discovery. Years ago a young woman was assaulted in a similar way. She escaped by shooting her attacker dead.

So why does it feel like he’s stalking her again?

© Tess Gerritsen 2002 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Critic reviews

'Gerritsen uses prose like a scalpel to slice deep into your mind. Piling on shock after shock and twist upon twist, this is a book best read in one sitting and with the lights full on. A breathtaking and absorbing thriller.'

'If you're home alone, do not risk even the first sentence. Once you've started reading this book, putting it down and saving it till later is not an option.'

(Mo Hayder)

'The Surgeon touches the dark places only a hunted woman can know...This is a story that terrifies and heartens all at once. What a ride!'

(Iris Johansen)

'If you're squeamish, this book is going to make you squirm...Gerritsen makes it chillingly feasible that the person you enjoy a chat with every day might just be planning the right time to cut your throat. An unpleasant thought, but a valid end result of a taut, well-paced and thoroughly realistic thriller.'

'If you've never read Gerritsen, figure in the price of electricity when you buy your first novel by her, 'cause, baby, you are going to be up all night'

(Stephen King)

'Ingenious, ultra-gory . . . Hugely efficient, scary and gripping, distinguished from the bloody competition by what feels like sheer rage that such crimes against women can happen in the first place.'

'Remind me not to go to hospital anytime soon. The Surgeon grabbed me by the throat and didn't let go until its hair-raising finish. Deep, dark and very disturbing.'

(Tami Hoag)

"THE SURGEON is a real page-turner. A read-in-one-go novel if ever there was one.......... An excellent thriller that goes straight to the top of my list."

'The novel is a rare beast, a cautionary peep into the dark recesses of the mind and motivations of a serial killer, and a deep probe into the characterization of his pursuers.'
SHOT MAGAZINE

Gruesome but gripping thriller

Very well written and intense thriller about the Boston PD homicide unit as they chase a vicious serial killer nicknamed The Surgeon because he cuts out his victims' uterus's while they're alive and then slits their throats and keeps the excised organ as a trophy. In this book we are introduced to Detective Jane Rizzoli, the only woman in Boston PD's homicide unit who is aggressive and territorial about the case and desperately wants to catch him. The killer seems to be focused on women who were previously raped and he is stalking a female trauma surgeon named Catherine Cordell who was the final victim of a similar series of murders in Savannah, Georgia and would have died if she hadn't managed to get an arm free and shoot the man attacking her. However despite the death of her assailant the killer stalking her now seems to know all about her ordeal and is using a campaign of terror to psychologically torment her. Great book, the first in the Rizzoli and Isles Series.

Unpredictability of the story

Love all of het books. Love listening to them though i almost read them all