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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The Surgeon
Tess Gerritsen
416 pages
15 hours of reading
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
It is a boiling hot summer in Boston. adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized--a sadistic demand that ends in death. The MO seems to point to Warren Hoyt, recently jailed.
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4.2
The Sinner
Tess Gerritsen
355 pages
13 hours of reading
Investigating the brutal murder of one nun and the critical injury of another within a cloistered convent, medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli stumble upon long-buried secrets that link these horrific crimes.
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4.0
Body Double
Tess Gerritsen
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles faces a chilling reality when she discovers a murder victim who is her exact double, down to intimate physical traits. The woman found shot outside Maura’s home shares not only her appearance but also her birth date and blood type, leading to a shocking revelation: she is Maura’s twin sister. This unsettling discovery propels Maura into a complex murder investigation intertwined with her own dark past. As she delves deeper, a DNA test confirms their connection, and Maura is compelled to confront the secrets of her origins. Her search for answers takes her to a seaside town in Maine, where she encounters further horrors. Meanwhile, an unidentified killer is on a nationwide rampage, and the stakes are rising. To uncover the truth about her roots and stop the ongoing violence, Maura must confront the mother she never knew—a cold and calculating figure who may hold the key to her existence and could pose a lethal threat. In a race against time, Maura must navigate a web of danger and deception to protect her life and unravel the mystery surrounding her family.
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4.2
Vanish
Tess Gerritsen
464 pages
17 hours of reading
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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4.1
The Mephisto Club
Tess Gerritsen
448 pages
16 hours of reading
When a brutal murder occurs, Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli link the victim to a club of scholars who believe that Satan lives among us.
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3.9
Keeping the dead
Tess Gerritsen
446 pages
16 hours of reading
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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4.3
The Killing Place
Tess Gerritsen
'The most bone-chilling story featuring on-going characters Rizzoli and Isles.' Daily Mail HE WATCHES Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. The people who lived in them appear to have vanished, seemingly into thin air. HE WAITS Maura Isles is driving through the area with a group of friends when they find themselves trapped in a snowstorm. They stumble into the abandoned village to take shelter. But their nightmare has only just begun. THEY DISAPPEAR Days later, Jane Rizzoli flies to Wyoming to search for her missing friend. A crashed vehicle has been found with four badly burned bodies still inside. Can one of the corpses be Maura's? Jane's hunt for the truth leads her to Kingdom Come. Where the person who was watching Maura now lies waiting for her ...
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4.1
The Silent Girl
Tess Gerritsen
448 pages
16 hours of reading
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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4.1
Last to die
Tess Gerritsen
336 pages
12 hours of reading
Visiting sixteen-year-old "Rat" Perkins at the isolated Evensong boarding school for emotionally traumatized children, Maura Isles is astonished to learn that all of his classmates, survivors of violence, are being instructed in scientific detective skills, a discovery that coincides with Jane Rizzoli's investigation into the murder of a boy's foster family.
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4.1
Die Again
Tess Gerritsen
428 pages
15 hours of reading
'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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4.2
I Know a Secret : (Rizzoli & Isles 12)
Tess Gerritsen
416 pages
15 hours of reading
When a young woman is found dead, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles are called to the scene of the murder. Though the body bears startling wounds, the actual cause of death is not immediately clear. A few days later, 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 first appear. As Rizzoli and Isles race to discover the link between the victims before the killer can strike again, a mysterious person watches from the sidelines. She has the answers they're looking for. But she knows she has to stay quiet, if she wants to stay alive . . .
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4.1
Listen To Me
Tess Gerritsen
302 pages
11 hours of reading
Rizzoli & Isles return, in the nail-biting new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles are investigating the gruesome murder of a nurse, whilst also protecting a young student from a stalker.
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4.0

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The bone garden
Tess Gerritsen
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...
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