![]() ![]() Last seen in The Sinner (2003), medical examiner Dr. An electric series of startling twists, the revelation of ghoulishly practical motives and a nail-biting finale make this Gerritsen’s best to date.Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Meanwhile, brief scenes chronicle the diabolical kidnapping of an affluent pregnant housewife who is kept buried in a crude coffin. The killer, Isles discovers, has been murdering pregnant women for decades, making periodic sweeps of the country. This opens the cobwebbed pages of a nightmarish family album and leads Isles to a remote cabin in Maine where the long-dead body of a pregnant woman is discovered buried in the woods. Isles falls for the handsome Ballard, but she isn’t convinced by his theory, and she launches an investigation into her sister’s past, following the trail to a state correctional facility and a schizophrenic inmate who may be her mother. Another detective, Rick Ballard, comes forward to say that he knew the victim and is certain her killer is a powerful pharmaceutical baron known to have stalked her. As the novel begins, Isles-an adopted child who never knew the identity of her birth parents-is confronted by the corpse of a murdered woman who is apparently her identical twin. Rizzoli is carrying her first child, and Isles-divorced and alone at age 40 and suddenly, unsettlingly aware of her biological clock-is experiencing decidedly unspiritual feelings for her priest. Both of the usually gritty crime fighters are uncharacteristically vulnerable. ![]() Pregnant women play key roles in this bone-chilling fourth novel in Gerritsen’s edgy, suspenseful series of thrillers featuring Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli. an icy and cunning woman who could be responsible for giving Maura life–and who just may have a plan to take it away. To stop the massacre and uncover the twisted truth about her own roots, Maura must probe her first living subject: the mother that she never knew. ![]() But perhaps more frightening, an unknown murderer is at large on a cross-country killing spree. Searching for answers, Maura is drawn to a seaside town in Maine where other horrifying surprises await. And when a DNA test confirms that Maura’s mysterious doppelgänger is in fact her twin sister, an already bizarre murder investigation becomes a disturbing and dangerous excursion into a past full of dark secrets. For the stunned Maura, an only child, there can be just one explanation. Even more chilling is the discovery that they share the same birth date and blood type. Yet there can be no denying the mind-reeling evidence before her shocked eyes and those of her colleagues, including Detective Jane Rizzoli: the woman found shot to death outside Maura’s home is the mirror image of Maura, down to the most intimate physical nuances. Because never before has the lifeless body on the medical examiner’s table been her own. But never before has her blood run cold, and never has the grim expression “dead ringer” rung so terrifyingly true. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more than her share of corpses every day–many of them victims of violent murder. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. Maura Isles literally meets her match–and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations–in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner.ĭr. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tess Gerritsen’s The Silent Girl.īoston medical examiner Dr. ![]()
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