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The Surgeon is a brilliantly-crafted tale of horror that's just so terrifying that you can't bear not to look. Seriously.
The story begins with a successful physician named Catherine Cordell who was nearly murdered a few years back in Savannah but lived to tell the tale because she blew her attacker away before he could finish the job. With her attacker's death, the string of grotesque torture-murders ends in Savannah, but then resurfaces in Boston. Which is just where Cordell now resides. The n ...more
The story begins with a successful physician named Catherine Cordell who was nearly murdered a few years back in Savannah but lived to tell the tale because she blew her attacker away before he could finish the job. With her attacker's death, the string of grotesque torture-murders ends in Savannah, but then resurfaces in Boston. Which is just where Cordell now resides. The n ...more
This time is actually the second time that I had read The Surgeon. The first time I had read it I found it to be a thrilling read. This time I reread it because it was chosen as the book of the month for my mystery book club and wanted to refresh my memory. Gerritsen does a great job at building a suspenseful tale that is both chilling and dark. Some of the descriptions were very graphic, and the book has a very disturbed individual as the villain so this book is not for the faint of heart. Howe
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An excellent book, different from the new series on alibi, but still very good, Isles is not in this book, but she appears in the second book in the series, The Apprentice. An excellent read, will read all the series....
My guilty pleasure is reading police novels featuring strong women detectives!
I really enjoyed this book. The only reason it took me so long to finish it is that I had to return it to the library, and then had to be put back on the wait list for it. It was hard to put down once I started reading it. I loved the characters, and how they grew even in just one book. I can't wait to read the next one.
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good book - read more with Jane Rizzoli
Nov 09, 2011
Nikki Fulton
marked it as to-read
Feb 10, 2012
Jo Ann
marked it as to-read
