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"If you love CSI........"
Reviewed by Merrilee Heffernan
Posted July 7, 2002

If CSI is your favorite TV program and Patricia Cornwall one your favorite authors, then this is the book for you. The detail in the crime scenes is intense and very detailed. If you are interested in how a crime is studied step-by-step, then this is it. The main character, Jane Read more...

"Fantastic reading experience"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted July 15, 2002

THE SURGEON aka Walter Hoyt has been in prison for over a year but the Boston police detective who put him away still bears the emotional and physical scars he inflicted on her at their last meeting. She is not confident in her abilities anymore and she uses three Read more...

"Accurately detailed crime thriller"
Reviewed by Tami Sutton
Posted August 25, 2002

Being the only female detective in the Boston P.D. homicide unit made Jane Rizzoli constantly in the spotlight. She felt she had to maintain a certain air of authority and stay calm and in control at all times. Unfortunately, that is going to be a tough assignment now that someone Read more...

Summary

It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death. The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city's streets. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. At least that's what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks. Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her? literally and figuratively?she is determined to finally end Hoyt's awful influence . . . even if it means receiving more resistance from her all-male homicide squad. But Rizzoli isn't counting on the U.S. government's sudden interest. Or on meeting Special Agent Gabriel Dean, who knows more than he will tell. Most of all, she isn't counting on becoming a target herself, once Hoyt is suddenly free, joining his mysterious blood brother in a vicious vendetta. . . . Filled with superbly created characters?and the medical and police procedural details that are her trademark?The Apprentice is Tess Gerritsen at her brilliant best. Set in a stunning world where evil is easy to learn and hard to end, this is a thriller by a master who could teach other authors a thing or two.