One day she returns home from a conference in Paris only to discover police conducting investigations just outside her home. She is a pathologist in a metropolitan city, and she has come face to face with dead bodies each day, and many of them happen to be victims of murder. Maura earns her daily bread living with the dead. Maura Isles, Boston medical examiner, somehow meets her match- she must, however, face a ruthless serial killer and some shattering personal.ĭr. These are the best two books by Tess Gerritsen.īody Double: Dr. Later in 2006 the novel Vanish was the winner o Nero Award for category best mystery novel, and in the same year, the book was nominated for Edgar Award and Macavity Award. The novel Surgeon was the winner of 2002 Romance Writers of America for the category of a best romantic suspense novel. Gerritsen is popularly known for Rizzoli/Isles series, Romantic and Medical thrillers. In 2001, the author wrote her first ever crime thriller, The Surgeon. Other medical thrillers written by Tess include Bloodstream, Life Support, and Gravity. Harvest upon its release was listed number 13 novel in New York Times bestseller list. The detective narrated to her that young orphans were quickly disappearing from Moscow streets and that the Russian police believed that the children were being kidnapped and shipped out of the country to be used as organ donors. The novel was inspired by the conversation Gerritsen had with an ex-homicide detective who had been on a trip to Russia. Later in 1996, the author wrote her first medical thriller Harvest. Since then Gerritsen has written over eight romantic thriller novels for Harper Paperbacks and Harlequin Intrigue. Her first novels were of the romantic thriller genre and after writing two practice books, Call after Midnight was finally published by Harlequin Intrigue in 1987.

Tess Gerritsen initiation to writing was inspired by romance novels that she enjoyed reading while working as a doctor.

While on leave, she submitted a short story in a fiction contest for the Honolulu magazine which won the first prize and further received $500.

The surgeon by tess gerritsen