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Title: The Surgeon by TESS GERRITSEN ISBN: 0-345-44784-0 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (101 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Startling and satisfying!
Comment: This was the first book by Tess Gerritsen that I had ever read, and it hooked me into her novels immediately. She is a medical suspense author like no other, and "The Surgeon" is a thoughtfully-woven tale that reveals her artistic skill in creating tension and unrelenting anxiety within the reader.
Dr. Catherine Cordell is the cool-headed surgeon, but she is also a former rape victim. As a string of rapes remarkably similar to her own begin to occur, she is startled. They are happening closeby, and detective Thomas Moore singles her out as the only possible connection. The only difference between Cordell and these new rape victims...she is the only one surviving.
As the story continues, we realize that the killer is now stalking Cordell's movements. Moore becomes her guardian, and later in the story, something more. However, until the killer is found, neither can rest...
The climactic ending leaves you gripping your seat and holding your breath. I salute Ms. Gerritsen for knowing how to formulate the medical thriller with such dexterity, wit, and sincerity.
Rating: 5
Summary: Defeating evil: a thriller for our post-Sept.-11th world
Comment: I've read all but one of Tess Gerritsen's books and The Surgeon is my favorite. Page 1 pulled me into the worlds of the characters and their actions where I willingly remained until the last page, despite experiencing occasional knots in my stomach.
Her lucid writing, lively dialogue, and attention to detail brought characters such as emergency room physician Catherine Cordell and homicide detective Thomas Moore vividly to life. She took me for an informative, believable, empathic, and non-psychobabble journey into the mind of the book's serial killer.
I felt warmly when reading her sensitive portrayal of a developing love between two of the characters--a beautiful piece of writing. With the exception of this portion of the book, the characters were too serious and intense; I would have appreciated more lighter interludes, perhaps even a dash of humor.
I appreciated her deft oscillation beween gradually turning up the suspense of her well-constructed plot and gradually disclosing the personalities of the characters.
I experienced a satisfying sense of closure at the end of this believable and absorbing story of evil and its defeat, of failure and ultimate success, and of the vicissitudes and satisfactions of love.
Tess Gerritsen, I rise out of my seat to applaud your virtuoso performance and hereby add to your M.D. degree a doctorate in detective and thriller writing.
Rating: 5
Summary: an intelligently written medical thriller/police procedural
Comment: 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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Title: The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen ISBN: 0345447867 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Harvest by Tess Gerritsen ISBN: 067155302X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Life Support by Tess Gerritsen ISBN: 0671553046 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Sinner by TESS GERRITSEN ISBN: 0345458915 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen ISBN: 0671016768 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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