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Title: The Surgeon by Dennis Boutsikaris, Tess Gerritsen ISBN: 0-553-71457-0 Publisher: Random House Audio Pub. Date: 21 August, 2001 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (96 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Move over Robin Cook!
Comment: Published in 1996, Tess Gerritsen's first medical/criminal suspense/thriller novel, Harvest, showed that she was going to give Robin Cook a run for his money in that particular writing genre. With the 2001 publication of The Surgeon, her 5th novel, she has pushed him aside to become the more exciting writer.
Dr. Catherine Cordell is a young, attractive, trauma surgeon who harbors a dark secret from her past in Savannah, Georgia - her rape and near mutilation and murder and then her successful killing of her attacker. Two years later, similar attacks/murders occur around her in Boston, Massachusetts. She is asked to assist the police in their investigation and then finds that she is the real object of the killer's obsession.
As a surgeon myself, I especially enjoy the detail and accuracy of the medical stuff about which Dr. Gerritsen, a former internist, writes. Her writing skills have developed with each novel, and her character development is now quite good, especially with Dr. Cordell, her surgical partner Peter Falco, the two lead detectives Thomas Moore and Jane Rizzoli, and the killer. She knows how to build to a climax, and I could not put the book down after I got halfway through. Finally, she can just flat out write a very chilling scary thriller!
A final caution - this book is not for the sqeamish or younger audience due to the graphic descriptions of female mutilation.
Rating: 4
Summary: A serial kill mutilates and slaughters female victims.
Comment: Dr. Catharine Cordell is a beautiful and brilliant emergency room doctor who narrowly escaped death after having been brutally [attacked] in Savannah, Georgia. She shot and killed her attacker and hoped that she had closed the chapter on that horrible incident.
Unfortunately, there is another killer loose in Boston, where Tess Gerritsen's new thriller, "The Surgeon" takes place. "The Surgeon" is the name given to a vicious man who stalks young women and then sadistically tortures, mutilates and murders them with a scalpel.
In some ways, this is a conventional slasher novel. The killer, a faceless presence throughout the book, is brilliantly evil and meticulous in his methodology; he also takes gory trophies to remind him of his victims. Does this sound familiar? It should, since this is the plot of dozens of novels that are written every year. Although I enjoy thrillers, I wonder why so many readers take such pleasure in books that depict women as victims. This theme has been done to death (excuse the pun) and I am surprised that Gerritsen resorted to such an overused plot device.
In spite of my qualms about the theme, "The Surgeon" held my interest. Dr. Cordell is a strong and feisty woman who has closed herself off from her emotions because of her traumatic past. She is an interesting counterpoint to Thomas Moore (one of the detectives looking for the serial killer) with whom she falls in love. Also interesting is Detective Rizzoli, a young female cop, who resents having to prove herself to her male counterparts. Rizzoli is a bitter and competitive person and she reminds me of many women who find it difficult to make it in a man's world.
"The Surgeon" is fast-paced, with plenty of dialogue and action to keep the plot moving. The ending is fairly conventional. The police work against time to catch the slasher before he kills Catharine. Although no new ground is broken here, I found myself caught up in the suspense. It is a tribute to Gerritsen's skill that she can take a plot that has been done so many times before and still make it riveting.
Rating: 5
Summary: Gerritsen is in a Class by Herself
Comment: This was the first book I read by Ms. Gerritsen, and I quickly became a fan. She is absolutely the best at medical thrillers. I love all the forensic information she divulges to her readers. Jane Rizzoli is a wonderful character and really stands out in this book. The Surgeon is a cruel, brutal killer whose mindset is just creepy. Great book!
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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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