The Sinner - Tess Gerritsen

At the moment I'm in a kind of reading frenzy and have proceeded to work my way through at least 6 books in a matter of weeks. I have always liked Tess Gerritsens books and had read The Surgeon and The Apprentice a year or so previously. So at long last I decided to carry on reading the rest of the stories in the series. The other novels are The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish and The Mephisto Club. I believe that a new book will be released soon called The Keepsake. I have read all of them up to Vanish which I am reading at the moment and will very soon have finished. The Sinner is a story involving the characters Detective Jane ...  Read the complete review

Every time I pick up a TESS GERRITSEN novel, I kind of wonder why I'm reading it.... but by the time I have reached the end, I always remember; it's because her novels are just sooo good and GERRITSEN is clearly an author who knows how to write a bloody good thriller. THE SINNER, the third novel to feature Detective Jane Rizzoli and Medical Examiner Maura Isles, who is obviously supposed be a fictional representation of TESS GERRITSEN from what I can make out. GERRITSEN gave up a career in medicine to look after her children and pursue her writing career and I get a strong sense from these novels that Maura Isles is very much the strong-hearted woman that TESS perhaps ...  Read the complete review

==Introduction== Having picked up this book for 25p on the charity book list at work, I thought I'd review it before returning it to the booklist for someone else to enjoy! I first heard of Tess Gerritsen when I read her book "Life Support" (also from the 25p booklist) and thoroughly enjoyed it. Following this I attempted to read her novel "Gravity", but just couldn't get into it. I thought I'd give her another go when I came across this book. It is the third in a series of six (at present) Jane Rizzoli (a detective character) novels. Having not read the first two, "The Surgeon" and "The Apprentice" I was ...  Read the complete review