The Surgeon

by Tess Gerritsen

eBook, 368 pages

Published May 15, 2009 by Ballantine Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-345-44943-6

(12 reviews)

He slips into homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, about to awaken to a living nightmare. The precision of his methods suggests that he is a deranged man of medicine, prompting the Boston newspapers to dub him “The Surgeon.” Led by Detectives Thomas Moore and Jane Rizzoli, the cops must consult the victim of a nearly identical crime: Two years ago, Dr. Catherine Cordell fought back and filled an attacker before he could complete his assault. Now this new killer is re-creating, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell’s ordeal. With every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home. And neither Moore nor Rizzoli can protect Cordell from a ruthless hunter who somehow understands—and savors—the secret fears of every woman he kills.

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3 stars

Good weekend read. I liked the plot and the characters and while I thought there were several leaps of logic and a few flaws, it was well written and I came away feeling like I actually learned something. The author clearly did a lot of research but the medical jargon and the police technicalities didn't bog it down at all, if anything it made the story more believable.

I didn't find the story particularly gory, or even suspenseful. And sometimes the author seemed to focus on certain things a bit too much, particularly in regards to characterisation. (Rizzoli's opinion of herself, for example.) But that did not detract from the reading. I am looking forward to reading the follow up book "The Apprentice" by the same author.