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Summary: The Surgeon - lock your doors
Review: A great read. Kept me up reading long after everyone else was asleep. The ending could have been a little more exciting but was a book that made me lock my doors.
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Summary: Not for the sqeamish
Review: Awesome book. Go Tess go. This was my first book of Tess's and I am moving on to read her others. This is a great medical thriller that keeps you guessing. A highly recommended read.
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Summary: Thrilling, Brilliant Page-Turner
Review: Great characters. Detective Thomas Moore, the grieving widower, finds himself drawn to a woman again - but not just any woman - it's Dr. Catherine Cordell. Cordell is a woman he meets in the course of investigating a series of gruesome murders by a serial killer the press has tagged as The Surgeon. Cordell survived a murder attempt a few years ago - and since then has isolated herself from forming any close relationships. Moore opens cracks in her well formed wall of isolation - and soon they both are able to move past their tragic pasts.
Unfortunately, murder keeps pulling them apart. How is it even possible that these killings could be related to the attempted murder of Cordell from a few years ago? Cordell shot and killed her attacker - or did she?
Cordell, Moore and his partner, Detective Jane Rizzoli (who is the featured characters in Gerritsen's next two novels) investigate these brutal killings - and uncover a secret that Cordell's subconscious had been hiding for years.
A thrilling, page-turning, brilliant read! It gets a well-deserved 5 stars!
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Summary: A good novel...a terrifying page turner!
Review: I like this novel. It has some very deep characters - they are very well thought out and have many dimensions!
I must say, I like this book better than the series with Dr. Maura Isles, as in "Body Double". I think Dr. Catherine Cordell is a much stronger and tougher opponent - although Dr. Isles can hold her own weight. However, I just felt I could relate a little better to Dr. Cordell.
Check it out - it is pretty good!
Oh, check out "The Sinner". It is not nearly as good, but it is still exceptionally entertaining. Freaky subject matter!
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Summary: Tess Gerritsen
Review: Iam always at the store when one of her new books come out. My kids say how can you spend that much money on one book? I tell them they have to read it to understand. I have read the surgeon and it had me on the edge of my seat!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tess has a wonderfull mind. The murders that occur in this book along with all the details she provides are excellent. I promise you if you read this book you'll be on the ride of your life and wont be able to put it down. When you do you'll be running right for the store to buy The Apprentice. It's kind of the sequal to The Surgeon. When your done with that one you'll be at the store looking for all her books. Body Double just came out and I cant wait to get my copy. Next to Steven King,Tess is the best. I'll never tire of either of thier books. The only thing that could get me more excited is if they were to make a movie from any of her books. You better believe Id buy those as well. If I could meet her and get an autograph would be just phenomenal. Keep punching them out Tess!!!!!!!!!!!
Your the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Chillingly Realistic Suspenseful Thriller
Review: Internist Tess Gerritsen's medical knowledge adds an eerie realism to this novel of mystery and suspense. As the lone survivor of serial killer Andrew Capra, Dr. Catherine Cordell escapes the horror she lived in Savannah to go to Boston and starts to put her life back together again. Though she rarely goes anywhere besides the hospital and lives in a very secure apartment, she is able to function very adequately in her position as a surgeon at Pilgrim Medical Center. But her sense of relative security is short-lived as a new serial killer emerges in Boston, and the killings are uncannily similar to those, which occurred in Savannah two years ago. Okay-Andrew Capra is dead, shot by Dr. Cordell, his almost-victim. Thus begins the quest for the new culprit. The endless possibilities add to the allure of this novel: Dr. Cordell, perhaps, a copycat killer, someone avenging Capra's death? Enter Boston's finest, "St. Thomas Moore", the detective who still brandishes a wedding band two years after the death of his wife, Jane Rizzoli, lone female detective out to prove her worth, Darren Crowe, resident male chauvinist. Moore and Rizzoli are a fine addition to this cast of characters-Moore struggles with his attraction to Catherine while Rizzoli struggles to succeed in a male -dominated profession while trying to understand her jealousy of Catherine. THE SURGEON plays like a finely tuned piano, each chord blending in harmony leading to the final resolution. The skillful use of medical terminology as well as the knowledge of anatomy, while somewhat gruesome, adds a chilling sense of reality to the murders. And, as the clues unfold, leading to the identity of the killer, the reader experiences a sense of dread as to who the next victim will be. Lights will stay on all night for this novel that is impossible to put down, and once finished, you won't want to sleep in the dark.
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Summary: Good thriller
Review: Tess Gerritsen's latest is a pleaser.
2 years ago, while living in Savannah, Dr. Catherine Cordell barely survived a brutal rape. The serial rapist/murderer known as Andrew Capra, aka 'The Surgeon', had previously raped and killed three other women. His last victim, Dr. Cordell, fought back and killed him.
Now living in Boston and working as a trauma center doctor, Catherine Cordell soon finds out about some recent rapes and murders happening in the Boston area that are very similar to the one's committed by Andrew Capra, the man she killed 2 years ago. This killer starts sending her clues, which causes her to recapture all those hideous moments of the past. She soon finds out that she may be the final target.Detective Thomas Moore is a rather easygoing guy (with a growing attachment to Cordell) assigned to these recent killings, along with lead detective Rizzoli, who happens to be a women struggling to prove herself to a mostly male police force. Filled with well-choreographed emergency room action and engrossing scenes of life and death, this novel does not disappoint. It seemed very emotional and personal due to the often-brought up issue of rape. A well-rounded medical thriller. 'Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go' Recommended
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Summary: an intelligently written medical thriller/police procedural
Review: The person who wrote this book is actually a real life MD (specializing in Internal Medicine) who gave up her career to write full time. This book she wrote is nothing short of brilliance. Not only was she able to use her medical expertise to write out all of the gory details of the killings, but she does well in putting together great detective work and really makes some interesting and believeable characters. The story is centered around the search for a serial killer who performs hyterectomies on women in the Boston area while they are still alive and then kills them. The killer is called the surgeon because he seems to have skills that only someone with specialized medical training should have. The killings seem strikingly similar to the style of another killer over two years ago in Savanna, Georga. But the killer in Georga was killed by his would-be victim (Catherine Cordell). One would think that maybe it's just coincidental that another killer just happened to have the same style as another killer who was killed over two years ago. The possiblility of it just being a coincidence was shattered when the police realized that the same woman (Catherine Cordell) who killed the killer two years ago is now living in Boston. The killer starts taunting Catherine by writing her email messages and even writes a message to her on a victim's body. But what is this killer's link to what happened in Georga and why is Catherine being targeted? Another part of the story focuses on the relationship of a male detective (Thomas Moore) with Catherine and the building resentment of a female detective. It also takes us into the world of a female detective's struggle for recognition and respect on the police force.
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Summary: A Stomach Turner
Review: THE SURGEON is definitely a gripping little tale. The title character is a killer who uses torture and mutilation of a most specific nature on his victims. While Detectives Moore and Rizzoli attempt to identify a pattern to the killer's madness, the killer relentlessly closes in on Dr. Catherine Cordell, the only survivor of a separate killer who employed an identical modus operandi. Coincidence, or is there a more concrete connection between the two?
This novel is solidly written. Gerritsen keeps the tension at a high level, the pace is relentless, and the characters are engaging. So why four stars instead of five? To my mind, while there are surprises in the details, the story is rather predictable overall, from the bloody opening to the cliff-hanger ending. Just-in-the-nick-of-time endings have become so overworked in books and movies that they've lost much of their impact. THE SURGEON is also quite gruesome. I like a good mystery, but THE SURGEON had my stomach turning at times.
Gerritsen has written a pretty good thriller, here. If the predictable ending and the sadism don't put you off at all, this is a very good read.
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Summary: Plot and Characterization
Review: This enjoyable thriller is notable for (at least) two reasons:
1. It is a quick read that is difficult to put down. I'd finish a chapter and decide to read one more before going to sleep, then wind up reading 3 more chapters.
2. While it is a quick read and the plot is a wild roller coaster ride, the author does not forsake characterization. I've read other authors who focus so much on plot that you scarcely get to know the characters. Gerritsen manages to keep the plot moving while giving us realistic characters we can get to know and care about. In addition to providing an enjoyable reading experience, this author provides an excellent example of balancing story elements in an efficient manner. For someone who reads as much to learn what to do (and not do) when writing, this book was a great learning experience.
A special thanks to Stephen King- I'd never heard of this author until I saw King's quote that Gerritsen is an automatic read in his house-I finished THE SURGEON and am now halfway through THE APPRENTICE.
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