Thursday, February 11, 2021

Tess Gerritsen

Ballantine Books

“He slips into homes at night and walks silently into bed rooms where women lie sleeping, about to awaken to a living nightmare. The precision of his methods suggests that he is a deranged man of medicine, prompting the Boston newspapers to dub him ‘The Surgeon.’ Led by Detectives Thomas Moore and Jane Rizzoli, the cops must consult the victim of a nearly identical crime: Two years ago, Dr. Catherine Cordell fought back and killed an attacker before he could complete his assault. Now this new killer is re-creating, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell’s ordeal. With every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home. And neither Moore nor Rizzoli can protect Cordell from ruthless hunter who somehow understands – and savors – the secret fears of every woman he kills."

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According to the author, in her “The origins of Rizzoli and Isles", Rizzoli “When she first walked on to the pages of The Surgeon I didn’t even realize that Jane was a heroine. Det. Thomas Moore was the protagonist in that story, and Jane was merely his annoying partner, a plain and scruffy woman with a huge chip on her shoulder. I saw no reason to make her likeable because I was going to kill her by the end of the book."

I have finished all the Rizzoli and Isles books, up to the latest book in the series, I Know A Secret. I didn’t particularly like it. However, I decided to read the series all over again, since so many people recommended Gerritsen’s book, especially The Surgeon.

While reading, I wondered why Rizzoli was such a misfit and so annoying and annoyed most of the time. She was not the Jane Rizzoli I read in the other books in the series. Because she was supposed to be killed in the end of The Surgeon. From the beginning to the end, she was not any important character in this book. The Surgeon, however, was more or less a romance novel about Thomas Moore and Catherine Cordell.

The Rizzoli and Isles series actually began with The Apprentice, I think. I have reserved the book. Have to wait for like two months. I’ll know if it is true when finish The Apprentice.