Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles Series

This series focuses on two strong women, detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles, who collaborate on solving crimes in Boston. Their friendship and professional relationship evolve as they confront dark and complex cases. The series is known for its suspense, drama, and well-developed characters who struggle with their personal issues. Each installment brings new crimes and challenges that test their skills and resolve.

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1
The Surgeon
Tess Gerritsen
416 pages
15 hours of reading
4.2(1300)Add rating
Today they will find her body. I know how it will happen. I can picture, quite vividly, the sequence of events that will lead to the discovery... In Boston, there's a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on his victims before finishing them off. His surgical skills lead police to suspect he is a physician - a physician who, instead of saving lives, takes them. But as homicide detective Thomas Moore and his partner Jane Rizzoli begin their investigation, they make a startling discovery. Closely linked to these killings is Catherine Cordell, a beautiful medic with a mysterious past. Two years ago she was subjected to a horrifying rape and attempted murder but shot her attacker dead. Now she is being targeted by this new killer who appears to know all about her past, her work at the Pilgrim Medical Center, and where she lives. The man she believes she killed seems to be stalking her once again, and this time he knows exactly where to find her...
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The Apprentice
Tess Gerritsen
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Although serial killer Warren Hoyt is behind bars, a copycat acolyte continues his diabolical legacy of murders performed with twisted medical techniques, and Detective Jane Rizzoli races against time to stop the vicious crime spree. By the author of The Surgeon. Reprint.
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Tod Sünde
Tess Gerritsen
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Body double
Tess Gerritsen
464 pages
17 hours of reading
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As a pathologist in downtown Boston, Maura Isles has seen more than her fair share of corpses. But never before has the body been her mirror image. A DNA test confirms the dead woman is indeed Maura's twin and begins a disturbing journey into a past full of dark and deadly secrets.
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Vanish
Tess Gerritsen
464 pages
17 hours of reading
4.1(55340)Add rating
The Beautiful Woman Appears To Be Just Another Corpse In The Morgue. But When Medical Examiner Maura Isles Looks Down At The Body, She Gets The Fright Of Her Life. The Corpse Opens Its Eyes. Now Very Much Alive, The Woman Is Rushed To The Hospital, Where She Murders A Security Guard And Seizes Hostages, One Of Whom Is The Heavily Pregnant Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli. But Who Is This Woman, And What Does She Want? Only Jane Can Solve The Mystery If She Survives The Night.
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The Mephisto Club
Tess Gerritsen
496 pages
18 hours of reading
3.8(553)Add rating
Can you really see evil when you look into someone's eyes?In a rundown house, a woman has been dismembered in an act of carnage that leaves veteran cops in shock. Drawn on the wall, in blood, are ancient symbols, and a mirror-image word in Latin
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Keeping the dead
Tess Gerritsen
446 pages
16 hours of reading
4.3(661)Add rating
When a perfectly preserved "mummy" is discovered in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum and an archaeologist turns up missing, medical examiner Maura Isles and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli have precious little time to derail the Archaeology Killer before he adds another chilling piece to his monstrous collection.
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The killing place
Tess Gerritsen
336 pages
12 hours of reading
4.1(749)Add rating
In Kingdom Come, Wyoming, 12 identical houses stand dark & abandoned; the occupants have vanished. Maura Isles has joined a fellow pathologist and his friends on a drive to a ski lodge. When police find a crashed vehicle with four burned bodies inside, they assume that the dead woman is Maura, and her death was accidental. But was it?
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The Silent Girl
Tess Gerritsen
448 pages
16 hours of reading
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Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli is already at the crime scene when medical examiner Maura Isles arrives on the Chinatown rooftop. Rizzoli's gut says they're on the trail of a twisted predator and when a monkey hair is found on the body, other clues point Rizzoli and Isles in the direction of the fable of the Monkey King.
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Last to Die
Tess Gerritsen
442 pages
16 hours of reading
4.3(491)Add rating
'Suspense doesn't get much smarter than this' Lee Child'Crime-writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best' Harlan CobenMurder.Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles find themselves locked inside a high- security boarding school along with the students. But now there has been a murder within the grounds.
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Die Again
Tess Gerritsen
428 pages
15 hours of reading
4.2(19908)Add rating
'Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best' HARLAN COBEN THE VICTIMS In Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles investigate a bizarre murder. A man has been found gutted and hanging in his home. When the remains of another victim are found, it is clear that this murderer has been at work for years, and not just in Boston. THE KILLER Five years ago, a group of travellers set off on an African safari. None of them was seen again - apart from one woman who stumbled out of the bush weeks later, barely alive. The only woman to have seen the killer's face. THE SURVIVOR Has the 'safari killer' resurfaced in Boston? Jane is sent to Africa to find the one link between the two cases - the only survivor. And convince her to face death once again...
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I Know a Secret
Tess Gerritsen
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When a young woman is found dead, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles are called to the scene. The body bears stratling wounds, though the actual cause of death is a mystery. The another body is discovered - a seemingly unrelated crime, but the lack of an obvious cause of death shows they have more in common than it would at first appear. As Rizzoli and Isles race to discover the link between the victims before the killer strikes again, a young woman watches from the sidelines. She has the answers they're looking for. But she has to stay quiet, if she wants to stay alive ...
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Rizzoli & Isles: Listen to Me
Tess Gerritsen
336 pages
12 hours of reading
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Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by all her neighbors, lies in her own home, brutally bludgeoned. But anything can happen behind closed doors, and Sofia seemed to have plenty of secrets in her last days, making covert phone calls to old contacts and traceless burner phones. When a connection is made between Sofia and the victim of a hit-and-run months earlier, the case grows even more blurry. What exactly was Sofia involved in? One thing is clear: the killer will do anything it takes to keep their secret safe. Meanwhile, Angela Rizzoli hasn't had a decent night's sleep in all the years since her daughter's become a homicide detective. Maybe the apple didn't fall too far from the tree. Nothing in her neighborhood gets by Angela--definitely not the strange neighbors who have just moved in across the street. In a sleepy town like Angela's, there is no such thing as coincidence, if only Jane would listen. Instead, she writes off Angela's concerns as the result of an overactive imagination. But Angela's convinced there's a real wolf in her vicinity, and her cries might now fall on deaf ears. As old sins cast long shadows, Jane and Maura will have to race to discover the truth before the darkness consumes them
The bone garden
Tess Gerritsen
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A gruesome secret is about to be unearthed... When a human skull is dug up in a garden near Boston, Dr Maura Isles is called in to investigate. She quickly discovers that the skeleton - that of a young woman - has been buried for over a hundred years. But who was the woman? And how did she die? It is the 1930s, and an impoverished medical student, Norris Marshall, is forced to procure corpses in order to further his studies in human anatomy. It's a gruesome livelihood that will bring him into contact with a terrifying serial killer who slips from ballrooms to graveyards and into autopsy suites. And who is far, far closer than Norris could ever imagine...