Life Support - Tess Gerritsen

Dr Toby Harper is a doctor in the ER of Springer Hospital, she's fairly happy with her lot in life although as with us all there are things she would change if she could. Toby works the night shift and on the night it all goes wrong everything is normal until the police being in an elderly man who is naked and confused. When Toby is called out to a major emergency elsewhere in the ER the elderly man somehow escapes and walks out into the freezing night, still naked and sure to die if not found quickly. The appearance and subsequent disappearance of the elderly man draws Toby into a crisis that she could never have imagined in a million years. As she becomes ...  Read the complete review

I read this book a while ago, having never heard of Tess Gerritsen, and not even really being a fan of the genre she writes in. I suppose you could file it under medical crime thriller, if you wanted, and while crime and thriller regularly appear in my list of favourite books, I have never ventured into the medical side of reading. Gerritsen is a doctor herself, and so I was expecting a book full of jargon and whole sections that would go completely above my head. However, what she presents us with is very much a medical crime thriller for the layman, with no overwhelmingly long and descriptive medical passages. Life Support essentially deals with an illegal ...  Read the complete review

Tess Gerritsen is one of my favourite authors she can somehow manage to pull you into the story and you can't wait to turn the page to find out what will happen next. I normally stick to the Maura Isles and Jane Rizzoli series of books. However I was in my local charity shop and I found Life Support, I couldn't resist after reading the back cover. Just to note that if you aren't interested in medical/surgical matters than you probably won't like this novel as it it a Medical Thriller. The plot is as follows... Dr Toby Harper is working the night shift in the ER at Springer Hospital when a man is admitted with a possible infection in his ...  Read the complete review

One of the first TESS GERITSEN medical thrillers ever to be published (I understand she wrote a few Mills 'n' Boon type novels under a pseudonym), LIFE SUPPORT is an interesting and heady mix of conspiracy and E/R drama that starts at a fast pace and barely lets up for even a second all the way to the end. Toby Harper is a night-shift E/R doc who comes across a couple of seemingly related cases of an advanced viral infection of the brain but faces a stonewall when she tries to investigate how her two patients are connected. Before long, her personal life is also in turmoil when she is accused of harming her elderly, alzheimers suffering mother but pleas that she is being ...  Read the complete review