The Mephisto Club - Tess Gerritsen

The Mephisto Club is a story involving the following two characters, Medical Examiner Dr Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli. These characters have appeared in quite a few other novels by Tess Gerritsen. After reading the other books in the series you become quite attached to the characters and can't wait to start the next book. Keeping the Dead is the next in the series and I should be hopefully starting that one soon. The story begins with the brutal murder of a young woman and at the murder scene are the words "I HAVE SINNED" in Latin, the killer used the victims own blood to write these words on the wall. Horrified at what they see before ...  Read the complete review

One of my more recent discoveries, I first came across her work late last year, is Tess Geritsen and, though I was a bit sceptical at first, over the course of her novels featuring Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, this writer has managed to win me over into becoming one of her biggest fans! With each successive book the plots get tighter, the action and suspense more intense and the characters slowly start to evolve as we get to know more about their private lives away from the job! Maura Isles is fighting her attraction to Priest, Father Brody, whilst Rizzoli attempts to come to terms with the pressures of being a mum. They are brought ...  Read the complete review

In recent times Gerritsen's books have become somewhat longer and this is no exception, at 473 pages long. But I found that reading it I was surprised to reach the end since it was a really gripping storyline, written with Gerritsens usual eye for the detail in both the sections dealing with human anatomy and the case itself. The main characters are Maura Isles the local pathologist and Jane Rizzoli. Both women are strong and independant who seem to have a friendship which due to their jobs they rarely allow out of their professional lives. Once again they are brought together by a murder in Boston, a woman is found violently murdered, her head and hand ...  Read the complete review