Tess Gerritsen is an Allan-born American author, novel, television scriptwriter, and physician born in San Diego, California on June 12th, 1953. She got her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and another from the University of California, San Francisco M.D. She is a doctor by profession, and as she was a mother, she had to pause her career. Then she started writing fiction.
Her first novel, Call After Midnight, was published a year later, followed by other novels, Her Other Self, Scar Deep as a Knife, in 1987. Eight more pieces of romantic suspense subsequently did the same in this. She also wrote the script of Adrift, which was acted on as a CBS Movie of the Week in 1993 with Kate Jackson in New York. She began writing medical thriller novels for the first time in her career in 1996, and her first novel was Harvest. She wrote a novel called Rizzoli and Isles, the Raw material for a television series.
They also present the Nero Wolfe Award for Vanish and the Rita Award for The Surgeon novel. Although she was a medical practitioner in the past, she is now a professional writer. Her latest works are Mephisto Club, Keepsake, Ice Cold, Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again, and Playing with Fire.
The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen: My honest thoughts on the book’s plot, characters, and overall impact. Loyal fans of the potent combination of Detective Jane Rizzoli and Medical Examiner Maura Isles will not be disappointed as they carry on their detective work. Meet the author of The Surgeon and the terrifying antagonist from that novel: It’s been a couple of…
Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen: My honest thoughts on the book’s plot, characters, and overall impact. During a skiing vacation with friends in the winter season in Wyoming, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles’ car breaks down in the middle of a storm. They find refuge in the eerie, deserted town of Kingdom Come with twelve houses, no people, dark houses,…
Listen to Me by Tess Gerritsen: My honest thoughts on the book’s plot, characters, and overall impact. Coronary artery disease continues to be the leading cause of death among women because of its ability to remain asymptomatic for long periods. Mackey and Crow series This “shocking and fast-paced” (Karin Slaughter) thriller follows Jane and Maura as they attempt to solve…
I Know a Secret by Tess Gerritsen: My honest thoughts on the book’s plot, characters, and overall impact. NOW A TNT DRAMA SERIES Rizzoli & Isles: The Complete Series NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—crime-solving partners with strikingly different personalities—return in this uplifting and suspenseful entry in Edgar® nominated author Tess Gerritsen’s New York Times bestselling thrillers.…
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen: My honest thoughts on the book’s plot, characters, and overall impact. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A briskly paced, terrifically suspenseful work that steadily builds toward a tense and terrifying climax.”—People (Page-turner of the week) Jeffrey’s Flowers for Algernon was selected as one of the 100 best mystery and thrillers of all time by Time magazine.…
Die Again by Tess Gerritsen: My honest thoughts on the book’s plot, characters, and overall impact. This time the gutsy cop, Jane Rizzoli, and the intrepid medical examiner, Maura Isles, take their skills into the nitty-gritty of hunting big game for a killer whose hunting ground of choice is the roaring wilderness. Die Again is the new almost-missing-the-beat-in-excitement third installment…
Choose Me by Tess Gerritsen: My honest thoughts on the book’s plot, characters, and overall impact. This is by Tess Gerritsen, a New York Times bestseller. Gary Braver, one of America’s best thriller writers, presents a stunning and captivating murder mystery about an extramarital fling and hidden truths. Taryn Moore, a lovely, talented young woman, ends up lifeless after a…
The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen: My honest thoughts on the book’s plot, characters, and overall impact. After giving up her job at the CIA in Seattle, Vanessa Michael Munroe deals with her past as a spy in a small town in Maine in this new twist to spy novels by New York Times best-selling author Tess Gerritsen. Maggie Bird…