The Surgeon

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Summary: An expert author both in both medicine and storytelling!
Review: This is my first Tess Gerritsen book and I extremely enjoyed reading it. Fast, interesting, excellent. Villain is the most horrible ever.
In Boston, a talented killer finds his victims who are previous rape victims. His target is removing the uterus and then cut their throats.
The trauma surgeon of Pilgrim Hospital, Dr Catherine Cordell -now lives in Boston- killed a trainee doctor Andrew Capra who had tried to rape and kill her with this identical style in Savannah.
Ms Gerritsen's heroin is actually Jane Rizzoli "the only female detective of the department who has emotional turmoil and self confidence problem". Rizzoli is great.
Another homicide detective Thomas Moore falls for Catherine, so there is also a little bit romance.
Rizzoli and Moore start their investigation on these copycat murders.
Page by page I was so eager to learn upcoming events. I must say that I could not put it down. Ms Gerritsen is a brilliant author and I can not understand how I missed her works. She is a doctor actually, that's why she is quite capable of decribing the medical terminology in a smooth way. Her style is easy to follow. Fast pace, great characters, magnificent storyline... What I reader wants more? Highly recommended...




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Summary: At a surgeon's pace...
Review: This is my first venture into Tess Gerritson. The Surgeon is the typical fare of the slasher/cop genre. And typical is my reaction to most of the book. It falls in line with the James Patterson, Jonathan Kellerman style of novels. The villian is unkown, and the author throws a curve every now and again to keep you guessing. The surviving victim of a brutal attack two years ago in Savannah, Dr. Catherine Cordell establishes a new life in Boston. But the past is following her as new female victims are being killed in Boston in the same fashion as before. Enter Detective Thomas Moore, a widower and perceived saint among the Boston PD, and his chip-on-the-shoulder partner Jane Rizzoli. Of course, Moore and Cordell fall in love, Rizzoli is not happy, the killer is getting closer to his ultimate prize - finishing what was not accomplished two years ago.

Overall, the book was a fun read. If there was a 3 1/2 star choice, I'd rate it there. I'm not to the point that I'll immediately purchase another Gerritson novel...I'm not totally sold yet. But I will go to the library to check one out.

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Summary: A Very Worthwhile Read-Exciting Book!
Review: This was the first I have read of Gerritsen's books, and it was a good one!

Catherine Cordell is a surgeon who is highly skilled in repairing broken people's bodies.

There have been some horrendous murders taking place in the city of Boston. This killer would tear women apart by carving out their female organs, stabbing them with a scalpel, and leaving some dead, and others barely alive at the scene.

With each repeated act of great violence, the monster comes closer and closer to capturing Cordell, and hurting her. The thing one, he did hurt Catherine once, and she managed to escape. But this time, she may not be so lucky. She's in this monster's obsessions all the time.