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Harvest

by Tess Gerritsen (Goodreads Author), George Guidall (Narrator)

4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 · rating details · 7,850 ratings · 300 reviews

As compelling as the best of Michael Palmer, Harvest soared to the top of best-seller lists across the country. In this novel of harrowing suspense and superbly crafted plot twists, author Tess Gerritsen draws on her years of experience as a doctor and delivers an explosive debut thriller. A second-year resident selected for Boston’s Bayside Hospital’s elite cardiac transp...more

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Feb 04, 2008 Bill rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-suspense

Harvest was recommended to me by a visitor to my site. Thanks, I enjoyed it.
Oftentimes when you read a novel about the profession in which the author was, at least you'll get an in depth perspective of that area.
In this case, the medical profession. Harvest focuses on organ
transplants, and the story involves organ donation on the black market.

Interesting stuff, and a very readable and exciting story. It would
appeal to just about anyone with an interest in this. All in all, a pretty formulatic...more

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Sep 15, 2011 Yas added it · review of another edition

Shelves: american-or-canadian, authors-i-cherish, crime-fiction, great-but-still-not-a-favourite, library-not-owned, suspense-mystery-or-thriller

Paperback version: 501 pages
Genre: Horror, Medical, Crime,
Rating: *****

Brief Synopsis:

Abbie DiMatteo has just landed her dream job, a resident at Bayside Hospital training with some of the best to achieve her dream of becoming a doctor or surgeon.

However not long into the job. The problems begin. Ostrasised by staff and members of the public after choosing to give a heart to someone she considers in more need than the other who is supposed to be having the heart but only because she's from a ric...more

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Jul 14, 2010 Linda Robinson rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Maybe I'll break my rule about reading the first novel by an author I haven't read before. The first is new work, a writer getting their writing muscles warmed up, the first editorial relationship tested, working arrangements, word choices being set like a table for a fancy dinner. This first novel has no tablecloth and plastic forks; we know the set-up, the bad guys, and the outcome way too soon. There's a weird typo missed in a sentence early on that read "opened the 'chest,'" instead of "char...more

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Jun 10, 2011 Danni rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The first of Gerritsen's books I've read that was not a part of her Rizzoli and Isles series. The book featured a second year resident named Abby DiMatteo who helps steal a heart from one transplant patient to another. (Both were critical, but only the teenage boy was coding every half hour) With her job on the line, Abby was shocked when another heart appeared for the other patient within two days. And when a mysterious postop fever appears in the patient, Abby can't find the papers that prove...more

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Aug 30, 2011 Kristin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Fascinating fictional look at the black market of organ brokerage. To me, the general direction the plot would take was rather predictable, I just wasn't sure who all was involved in the illegal activity. Early on, the book focuses on two young surgeons' efforts to redirect a heart meant for a wealthy woman living at home instead to a teenager barely clinging to life in the hospital. However, once that heart is given to someone, that plotline fizzles out. The rest of the book deals with one of t...more Fascinating fictional look at the black market of organ brokerage. To me, the general direction the plot would take was rather predictable, I just wasn't sure who all was involved in the illegal activity. Early on, the book focuses on two young surgeons' efforts to redirect a heart meant for a wealthy woman living at home instead to a teenager barely clinging to life in the hospital. However, once that heart is given to someone, that plotline fizzles out. The rest of the book deals with one of the young doctors, who is asked to be a part of the cardiac transplant team, but suspects something fishy is going on when the woman is chosen for the heart over the boy and has to resort to teaming up with the other to get the heart for the boy if it is meant to be. She begins investigating the origins of another donor heart, which leads her into much danger of being found out, potentially ending her career and maybe her life.
Parallel to the plotlines at the hospital, Gerritsen also tells the story of Yakov, one of many Russian orphans who finds himself on a mysterious ship, thinking he is going to America to be adopted, yet one by one, all of the other boys get 'chosen' and disappear. Having a deformed hand and suspected psychological issues, Yakov knows he's not perfect, but all of the other boys had things wrong with them too and they got chosen, so Yakov finds a 'safe place' on the ship to hide and avoid the sadness of not being chosen, one that could save his life if he knew what was really happening to the chosen boys.
I know from reading a couple of Gerritsen's other books that she is fairly well-versed in medical terminology and philosophy, but there was one glaring theoretical inaccuracy in the book that proved it was all fiction to me. The rich woman is an AB positive blood type, and thus when her husband puts out some money to move her up the list, she becomes eligible for an AB+ heart, which is where the conflict with the teenager arises, as he is also an AB+. Since this man has proven to be corrupt enough to bribe his wife's way to the top of the list, why did she only get matched with an AB+ heart? AB+ is a universal recipient, they can get any blood type organ, and with AB being a rare type, surely there were more hearts of A, O, or even B blood type available, but yet all his money can get him is the rare AB+ heart that comes along? Just doesn't quite add up for me.(less)

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Jun 13, 2009 Michael rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Robin Cook fans, medical thriller fans

Recommended to Michael by: Saw friends high recommendation.

Shelves: mystery, reviewed

This is a story of medical malpractice and greed.
Dr. Abby DiMatteo is caring for a young woman, unresponsive after a head on collision. Other members of the staff know that she will not recover and begin talking about transplanting her organs.

After the patient's husband agrees to the transplanting, a fellow MD, Dr. Vivian Voss speaks of a 17 year old boy in desperate need of a heart transplant. When Abby chechs for a cross match, she finds that her boyfirend, Dr. Mark Hodell, who is a key surgeo...more

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Jan 09, 2009 Karenshaff rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Totally captivating story...Tess Gerritson tells a good medical thriller story time and again, being a physician herself makes the descriptions seem so real. I have read lots of her books, and each time, they keep me reading and I have to force myself to stop and turn out the light at night. Good read.

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Oct 16, 2011 Andrea Larson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This very suspenseful medical thriller involves Dr. Abbey Di Matteo, a second year surgical resident, who finds herself embroiled in a horrific web of "donor to the highest bidder." She finds that the donors aren't really donors either but orphans from Russia whose hearts are harvested and sold by the Russian Mafia to the tightly knit transplant team.

As Abbey digs deeper into the situation, she's being framed for murdering one of her patients, trailed by a mysterious van, intestines left in her...more

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Oct 01, 2011 Sarah rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was absolutely fabulous. I was looking for something gritty when i went to the book store and the people were suggesting stuff and i decided to take this book. Then i started reading it and it was even better then what i had hoped for. For all those people who like their medical dramas, ie. ER, chicago hope, grey's anatomy, this book is 10 times better then those shows will ever be, even when they are in their peak air times. This book is down right dirty. Surgeons using words like 'cu...more

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Jun 20, 2011 Rhonda rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: modern-fiction

I thought this book made things pretty simple to guess where they were going. In the beginning we are introduced to some poor Russian (Latvian) street kids and they are "purchased" by a man and woman, two questionable characters, with a story about taking the kids to America for adoption. Please raise your hand if you didn't buy that story either.
The real key was wondering exactly how the title would be worked in: what exactly are we harvesting? When we are introduced to Dr. Abby DiMatteo, who...more

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Jun 26, 2011 Kathleen Hagen added it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-audio-books, 2011-mysteries

Harvest, by Tess Gerritsen, a-minus, narrated by George Guidall, produced by Simon and Schuster, downloaded from audible.com.

This is Tess Gerritsen’s first medical thriller. Very good. Abbie is a young woman on the fast track at a Boston hospital to be a brilliant surgeon. She’s smart and has worked hard. She is involved with another doctor, a thoracic surgeon, who brings her one night to a secret meeting of the transplant organs team. They induct her into their circle. She is flattered. These a...more

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Feb 08, 2013 Ezgi Neşe rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book is the first one that I have read entirely in English.
-Except mangas-
The main character is Abigail DiMatteo.
Second-year resident, surgeon.
She lives with her boyfriend, Mark, who is a surgeon on the transplant team.

One day, a woman has a car crash. Her brain is dead but her heart and her lungs in good shape. A surgeon called Vivian Chao wants to harvest her heart and transplant it to a seventeen -year-old boy whose heart is a perfect match. They both AB positive and it isn’t a common he...more

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Sep 10, 2010 L.L. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. (spojlery w moim opisie są malutkie i niegroźne ;) )
Książka jest świetna, dawno nie czytałem nic co by mnie tak wciągnęło.
To thriller medyczny, choć takie na ogół nie są w moim stylu, ogólnie lubię klimaty katastroficzne, te ciary jak się jakiś świat kończy :D To nie jest tego rodzaju thriller medyczny, "Żniwo" to historia lekarki, która wpada na trop nielegalnego handlu organami do przeszczepów, ale czemu mi się tak podoba... hmmm, na początku jest wypadek samochodowy - kobieta wracała do domu,...more (spojlery w moim opisie są malutkie i niegroźne ;) )
Książka jest świetna, dawno nie czytałem nic co by mnie tak wciągnęło.
To thriller medyczny, choć takie na ogół nie są w moim stylu, ogólnie lubię klimaty katastroficzne, te ciary jak się jakiś świat kończy :D To nie jest tego rodzaju thriller medyczny, "Żniwo" to historia lekarki, która wpada na trop nielegalnego handlu organami do przeszczepów, ale czemu mi się tak podoba... hmmm, na początku jest wypadek samochodowy - kobieta wracała do domu, a jakiś pijany durny nastolatek pojechał pod prąd i spowodował wypadek. On oczywiście przeżył, a kobieta cóż... wylądowała w szpitalu w stanie krytycznym. Właściwie nastąpiła śmierć mózgu, więc jedynie narządy nadają się do przeszczepów. I to jest pierwsze takie niezbyt przyjemne uczucie - niby kobieta żyje jeszcze, ale praktycznie nie żyje (jeszcze kilka godzin i organy nawet zaczną obumierać, więc trzeba się spieszyć) i nie ważne, że była zupełnie niewinna, nie spodziewała się śmierci - już nic nie można zrobić, można tylko pobrać organy.
Równolegle opowiadana jest historia czwórki rosyjskich chłopców niby adoptowanych, jakiś mężczyzna i kobieta zabierają ich na statek - od razu wiadomo, że coś jest nie w porządku, bo na końcu wychodząc zabijają ich dotychczasowego opiekuna (oczywiście chłopcy o tym nie wiedzą). No a z opisu książki można się domyślić, że chłopcy nie będą adoptowani...
Dalej... siedemnastolatek potrzebuje przeszczepu serca, serce kobiety poszkodowanej w wypadku jest idealne i kiedy już ma być przeznaczone dla niego, pojawia się bogaty mężczyzna i klinika nagle decyduje się oddać serce jego żonie. To się nie podoba dwóm młodym lekarkom, działają szybko i jednak chłopiec dostaje serce. Oczywiście jedna traci pracę, a druga no prawie też. Ale mimo tego wszystkiego nagle znajduje się pasujące serce i dla tej kobiety i to właśnie budzi podejrzenia tej pozostałej lekarki. To wszystko jest też co któryś rozdział przeplatane podróżą tych czterech chłopców, więc w sumie nie wiadomo czy może to drugie serce było jednego z nich czy jeszcze nie...
Taki nastrój nieco ciężki, ale książka wciąga bardzo (przynajmniej mnie).(less)

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Nov 23, 2008 Jen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: female-author, mystery, scientific-thriller

Abby DiMatteo is a top-notch second-year resident at Bayside Hospital in Boston. Dr. Wettig, the supervisor of the residency program, is known to be a hard-nose who never compliments any of the residents, but he shows a lot of respect for Abby. In addition to the respect she is receiving from her supervisor, the organ transplant team is also showing interest in Abby. They want her to be a part of their team when she finishes her residency.

Abby is ecstatic about the attention she is receiving fro...more Abby DiMatteo is a top-notch second-year resident at Bayside Hospital in Boston. Dr. Wettig, the supervisor of the residency program, is known to be a hard-nose who never compliments any of the residents, but he shows a lot of respect for Abby. In addition to the respect she is receiving from her supervisor, the organ transplant team is also showing interest in Abby. They want her to be a part of their team when she finishes her residency.

Abby is ecstatic about the attention she is receiving from the transplant team, and even more excited when her boyfriend Mark, who is also on the transplant team, asks her to marry him. But all the wonderfulness starts to fade after Abby helps a teenage boy get the heart transplant that is rightfully his over a 40-year-old woman who's husband is wealthy and wants to "pay" for the heart. The teenage boy is saved but the cost may be Abby's life.

I'll just start this review by saying Tess Gerritesen knows how to write a thriller! Even though she writes the story so that the reader can make connections early on, the approach doesn't deter from the anticipation or excitement at all. It is kind of like watching a scary movie where someone enters a dark room with eerie music playing. You KNOW something is going to jump out at the person, but you still jump out of your seat when it happens. That is what this book easily compares to.

The concept of buying and selling organs in this book is nothing short of terrifying. Gerritsen writes in such a way as to evoke a tremendous amount of emotion from the reader: fear, horror, anger, mortification.

Gerritsen also has a gift when it comes to characterization. I absolutely fell in love with Yakov, a young Russian orphan who was so smart and had so much curiosity. He yearned for companionship, looking for it where ever he could find it.

And Abby is another great female character. She is faced with multiple lawsuits that the wealthy husband is arranging with all his money. She is a resident; she has no money to even begin to try to fight them, but she feels that she must do something. I found myself identifying with her frustration over the fact that money is the controlling factor, not what is RIGHT. Abby isn't a superwoman, she doesn't have the super powers to trump the evils of money. And sadly, everything doesn't turn out happily ever after. But it turns out believable, which in the end makes the book that much more frightening.

I listened to this book on audio. This was a Recorded Books version, read by George Guidall. One of the elements of Guidall's reading that stood out for me was how his pace increased with action that was taking place in the plot. I find myself doing that when I read myself, so I appreciated his tendency to do the same thing. While I enjoy Guidall's readings and I think he did a very nice job on this book, I also think his sound is a little too old for the characters that this book centered on. And I'm also a little curious why they chose a male reader over a female reader for this particular book. But, as with In Big Trouble, these factors aren't enough for me not to highly recommend it. I had a great experience listening to this audiobook.(less)

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Sep 22, 2010 Laylah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller

Reading this book makes me feel like my neck being squeezed. The pressure keeps building page by page. Now I'm nearing suffocation. But it's a good suffocation. I don't know. Maybe I'm experiencing literary erotic aphyxiation. While dying to be released of this torture, I still want more. Gerritsen doesn't hold back on grusome. Abby was deliberately/wrongfully accused of mentally unstable. I suspect she would actually be so for real after the ordeal she suffers at the end of the book. The villai...more

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Oct 26, 2011 Sandy Vaughan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: listened

By Tess Gerritsen
Narrated by George Guidall
Length:12 hrs and 30 mins
Release Date:04-22-11

You should know that my dad was an Army doctor and I have probably spent almost as much time in them as out! We were both mystery lovers so this had to be one of my Audible.com choices.

It got my husband and I a bit confused with some of the scene changes and who is or isn't there but that is kind of the fun of a mystery. Will it all come together in the end? While we figured out who was what and why, there w...more

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Sep 14, 2011 Elizabeth rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller, medical-thriller

I thoroughly enjoyed "Harvest."

When I first started it, I thought this was the medical version of Grisham's "The Firm." And yes, there were some similarities in some ways. But it also it is also strong in it's own right. The story is about black market organ donations and the rich buying the organs needed for medical procedures.

I felt like Gerritsen revealed the layers of plot carefully and kept me interested all the way through. While yes, parts of this plot may be considered predictable, I kep...more

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Jul 22, 2012 Susan Kattwinkel rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

An idealist young cardiac fellow gets caught up in a pay-for-organs scheme. The Russian (or some foreign) mob is involved and it gets very action movie by the middle. Meh. It takes place in Boston, but there's almost no evocation of that city. It could have been anywhere. There's a subplot (or parallel plot) involving a young boy named Yakov who, along with his friends, thinks he's being taken to America for adoption but is really being sold for his organs. That plot was actually quite compellin...more

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Jun 17, 2013 Jovy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the second time I'm reading this book. This was actually the first Tess Gerritsen novel that I read. I was still in college (1996) when I read this and it was one of the best books. It was also my first medical thriller book and I've been collecting them ever since.

This book thought me the channels taken for organ donors. We have always been thought about organ donation but the term harvest was never used in my school in the Philippines.

I've always seen the world in rosé-colored glasses...more

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Aug 06, 2012 Terri Lynn rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, mystery-suspense-thrillers

I can't believe I read this in less than 24 hours. All 344 pages! This story was so good and so fast-paced, I couldn't stop.

Tess Gerritsen, like another favorite of mine Robin Cook, is a physician so writing a medical mystery comes natural to her.

Dr. Abby DiMatteo is a second year resident at Boston's Bayside Hospital. After 4 years of college and 4 years of medical school, she is finally getting to do what she longed to do since losing her beloved little brother as a child- surgery. She is al...more I can't believe I read this in less than 24 hours. All 344 pages! This story was so good and so fast-paced, I couldn't stop.

Tess Gerritsen, like another favorite of mine Robin Cook, is a physician so writing a medical mystery comes natural to her.

Dr. Abby DiMatteo is a second year resident at Boston's Bayside Hospital. After 4 years of college and 4 years of medical school, she is finally getting to do what she longed to do since losing her beloved little brother as a child- surgery. She is also living with forty-something surgeon Mark Hodell who also works at Bayside.

I really liked the character of Abby. She is the kind of person you'd like to have as your doctor and your friend. Ditto for Dr.Vivian Chao . Dr. Chao works in the 5th year residency with clinic patients who are uninsured and while she's not the openly warm and fuzzy type, you can see her heart for the poor and uninsured. She is smart as a whip and has very fast hands in surgery. These two women are great characters.

Problems erupt when a woman who is AB positive is left brain dead after an accident where a drunken idiot crashes head on into her while driving down the wrong side of the road. The heart really should go to the person at the top of the transplant list which is a teen boy under Dr. Chao's care. Instead, a rich and vindictive SOB named Victor Voss tries to purchase the heart right out from under the boy for his dying 46 year old wife Nina Voss (the only person on the planet who can stand him and not that much!).

The hospital admin is going along with the sale . Vivian is watching the boy code over and over. Finally, she transfers him to Mass General. She sends Abby to the husband of the woman who the heart is being harvested from to sign a directed donation giving the heart to the boy. The man signs and then Abby is sent in an ambulance to courier the heart to the other hospital. The hospital director tries to get the ambulance back but she gets there and the heart is implanted and the boy is saved.

Meanwhile, the hospital administrator, the transplant director, the lawyer, and the head of the residency program are royally pissed and Abby must face them. Vivian has been fired but since she has already done her residency, she can just get a job in a practice. Abby is just a second year resident and barely manages to hold on to her job.

A furious Victor Voss wants to see heads roll. The main head he wants to see roll is Abby's and as the 14th richest man in America, he can afford to see it happen. First, he has a Russian boy murdered for his heart for Nina then takes out in a reign of terror after Abby. When Abby finds her fiance Mark is involved and the Russian Mafia are transporting orphans to murder to harvest for body parts, she hooks up with the detective investigating her- Detective Katzka- for the ride of her life. (less)

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Jul 06, 2011 Thom Swennes rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Harvest is a great read! The book gives the reader a view of transplant surgery with a twist as only Tess Gerritsen can. If she practiced medicine as well as she can write a really great story then the medical world has lost a treasure. Her knowledge of medicine and the hospital OR makes her stories all the more believable. Harvest is the story of Dr. Abby DiMatteo, a second year surgical resident. Her decision to do what her heart tells her gets her into more trouble than she (or the reader) co...more

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Apr 08, 2011 Norm rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I finally got around to reading Tess Gerritsen's early books, and I can see why her career took off after Harvest. She.just.writes.smart.

Her medical knowledge notwithstanding, Gerritsen's characters are engaging and strong, and you root for them as she tortures them just for fun. When things are bad, don't worry, they'll get worse. And just when you think you have the twists and turns figured out, everything unravels.

I didn't give this a perfect score because I thought one plot line was a bit ob...more

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Jan 05, 2013 Diana rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime

I was looking for something to read over the festive season, something easy. This is certainly easy but I did find myself skipping some of the medical descriptions, although I did feel she knew what she was talking about. I have not read any of her other books but I have read some other medical thrillers. The relationship between Abby and Mark didn't quite ring true and she appeared to overcome her scruples as soon as someone mentioned would she not have done anything to save her brother? But as...more

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Jun 09, 2012 Erin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: digital, thriller, sciencey, mystery

It was quite good. But it didn't capture me like her other books do.

I've also noticed a very trending theme in Tess' books.
All her main women have black hair. (Abby, Vivian, Jane, and Maura)
She loves Russians. (This is now the second plot that involves Russians)

The plot of this one like I said was good though. I do think there was too many switching between characters (including, I swear I remember a scene with two characters that later had no bearing on the story at all... or I could just be w...more

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Jan 21, 2013 Maria Grazia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: biblioteca, narrativa-nordamericana, thriller

Tipico medical thriller imperniato sul traffico internazionale di organi, come sempre alimentato dall'avidità umana, tra ricchi che pensano che il denaro possa pagare la vita e medici, tipicamente americani, facili prede di un sistema che li riempie di soldi dopo che per studiare si sono indebitati fino al collo.
I personaggi sono abbastanza stereotipati, tranne in piccolo orfano russo Jacov, che emerge per la sua mente limpida e la capacità di distinguere il bene dal male, fino ad ergersi a vero...more

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Jun 11, 2012 Sally Pearce rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2012

I LOVED this book! Unlike Gerritsen's Rizzoli and Isles series, this one taps into her medical background to create a story about transplant surgery and some of the terrible things that can go wrong. Her main character, Abby, is a resident in the transplant unit. What a closed society! As you read along, you begin to see why. Gerritsen has done a great job of keeping the reader on the edge of her seat. I dare you to put it down for long!

I believe this was her first book. The writing was excellen...more

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Mar 24, 2012 Edward Fajardo rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Tess Gerritsen had me instantly hooked to Harvest, a medical thriller about an intern, Dr. Abby DiMatteo, who discovers that something is not right with Bayside Hospital's organ transplant program. She investigates and unravels the intricate conspiracy of who is involved in this underground network. Although I found the plot to be generally predictable, there were enough plot twists to keep the storyline unique. Besides, it was Gerritsen's writing style that kept me captivated and engrossed as t...more

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Mar 09, 2009 LJ rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary_post_1945, female_author, boston, medical_thriller, mystery, suspense

HARVEST (Med. Thriller-Abby DiMatteo-Boston-Cont) - Ex
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From Fantastic Fiction: At Bayside Hospital, Dr. Abby DiMatteo's career is in serious jeopardy when it is discovered that she helped divert a donor heart to a dying teenager. When a new heart for the intended recipient, a wealthy woman, suddenly appears, Abby questions its origin. Now every move she makes creates a furious backlash, and nothing can prepare her for the grisly final reckoning.

What a great first novel...more

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Feb 20, 2013 Hadia Salahuddin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a first for me, picking up a book on a mere whim since I have never heard of the author before(kicks myself for my ignorance). Where do I start from, this book had me from chewing on my fingernails to my fingers so its safe to say it was one hell of a ride reading this. I love it when there is a female heroine who saves the day, gives me sort of an ego boost ha ha. What an articulate piece of writing, CANT wait to read more from Tess, she is a genius. And also made me realize where Greys...more

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Jul 21, 2012 Marianne rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Harvest is the 9th stand-alone novel by Tess Gerritsen, and is the first of her medical thrillers. Set in Boston, it tells the story of second year surgical resident, Abby DiMatteo, who, in the process of facilitating a heart transplant for a 17-year-old boy, stumbles upon a possible cash-for-organs scheme operating at her hospital, Bayside. But her discovery seems to have upset certain people and she soon finds herself the defendant in several malpractice suits, suspected of euthanasing a patie...more

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Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D.

While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was published. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller...more

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“God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.” — 16 people liked it

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