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    <![CDATA[For a considerable time Tess Gerritsen has been producing some of the most challenging -- and disturbing -- crime novels being written today. A speciality, of course, is her preparedness to go further than most authors would dare to -- male or female -- and with <em>The Mephisto Club</em>, she once more seems prepared to face the reader and say: if you can take it, I can dish it out. While Gerritsen has found new things to say in the genre of the serial killer novel, what really distinguishes her work is the brilliant characterisation of her twin heroines, medical examiner Dr Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli. Both protagonists feature in this latest novel, and while it might not crank up the tension to the same degree as the remarkable <em>Vanish</em>, it will be a rare reader indeed who will be able to put this one down.<br/><br/>Christmas in Boston brings horror rather than good cheer when a woman's body is found dismembered in a crime scene that leaves even hardened cops queasy. Doctor Maura Isles is assigned to the case, but soon another brutal murder takes place: a woman has been mutilated and murdered on Beacon Hill, near the home of the director of the Mephisto Club. This is a clandestine society whose subject is the study of evil -- and its agenda is to confront it in its most unadulterated forms. As Detective Jane Rizzoli becomes involved, it's quickly apparent that both women (no strangers to the bloodiest extremes of human cruelty) are up against something which is close to a distillation of the purest evil.<br/><br/>This isn't quite Tess Gerritsen on her very best form, but it's still more compelling and audacious than most thrillers being written today. The legions of Tess Gerritsen fans need not hesitate.  --<em>Barry Forshaw</em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this Isles/Rizzoli series and find each one a page-turner.<br/><br/>Back Cover Blurb:<br/>In a rundown house, a woman has been dismembered in an act of carnage that leaves veteran cops in shock.  The last person called from the dead girl's phone: Dr Joyce O'Donnell, a celebrity psychiatris...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81505153">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[  This was my first Tess Gerritsen book.  And even though this book was 6th in a series, I didn't feel lost (all that much) while reading it. The one aspect that may have been impacted was the side stories that surrounded the two main characters.  To me, they seemed somewhat irrelevant to the main s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66206377">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book I've read (or in this case, listened to) from this series.  I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt by giving it 4 stars rather than 3, since I was on the borderline of how to rate it, and I suspect I would have gotten into the book much faster if I had been familiar with the c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49361684">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Tess Gerritsen's thrillers. They have a great, balanced combination of the investigations tackled by detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles, and their personal lives.<br/><br/><em>Mephisto Club</em> pits the two against another serial killer, introduces them to the dark, intellectua...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41245567">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[For a considerable time Tess Gerritsen has been producing some of the most challenging -- and disturbing -- crime novels being written today. A speciality, of course, is her preparedness to go further than most authors would dare to -- male or female -- and with <em>The Mephisto Club</em>, she once more seems prepared to face the reader and say: if you can take it, I can dish it out. While Gerritsen has found new things to say in the genre of the serial killer novel, what really distinguishes her work is the brilliant characterisation of her twin heroines, medical examiner Dr Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli. Both protagonists feature in this latest novel, and while it might not crank up the tension to the same degree as the remarkable <em>Vanish</em>, it will be a rare reader indeed who will be able to put this one down.<br/><br/>Christmas in Boston brings horror rather than good cheer when a woman's body is found dismembered in a crime scene that leaves even hardened cops queasy. Doctor Maura Isles is assigned to the case, but soon another brutal murder takes place: a woman has been mutilated and murdered on Beacon Hill, near the home of the director of the Mephisto Club. This is a clandestine society whose subject is the study of evil -- and its agenda is to confront it in its most unadulterated forms. As Detective Jane Rizzoli becomes involved, it's quickly apparent that both women (no strangers to the bloodiest extremes of human cruelty) are up against something which is close to a distillation of the purest evil.<br/><br/>This isn't quite Tess Gerritsen on her very best form, but it's still more compelling and audacious than most thrillers being written today. The legions of Tess Gerritsen fans need not hesitate.  --<em>Barry Forshaw</em>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Evil exists. Evil walks the streets. And evil has spawned a diabolical new disciple in this white-knuckle thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.<br/><br/><em>PECCAVI</em> The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman&#8217;s brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It&#8217;s a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O&#8217;Donnell&#8211;Jane&#8217;s professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club.<br/><br/>On top of Beacon Hill, the club&#8217;s acolytes devote themselves to the analysis of evil: Can it be explained by science? Does it have a physical presence? Do demons walk the earth? Drawing on a wealth of dark historical data and mysterious religious symbolism, the Mephisto scholars aim to prove a startling theory: that Satan himself exists among us.<br/><br/>With the grisly appearance of a corpse on their doorstep, it&#8217;s clear that someone&#8211;or something&#8211;is indeed prowling the city. The members of the club begin to fear the very subject of their study. Could this maniacal killer be one of their own&#8211;or have they inadvertently summoned an evil entity from the darkness?<br/><br/>Delving deep into the most baffling and unusual case of their careers, Maura and Jane embark on a terrifying journey to the very heart of evil, where they encounter a malevolent foe more dangerous than any they have ever faced . . . one whose work is only just beginning.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It amazes me that Tess Gerritsen is able to write such awesome thrillers, time after time. And yet she does, proving that she is, quite simply, at the top of her game--and at the top of the psychological thriller/mystery genre! <br/><br/>Many others have outlined the plot of THE MEPHISTO CLUB, so ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21686147">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw Tess Gerritsen speak at the SF Writer's Conference and wanted to see how she practiced what she preached. The Mephisto Club was chosen pretty much at Random. The woman definitely has some Steven King to her. It was a great read, a cop story in the mystery-thriller spectrum. Her descriptions we...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18546557">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was ok... I read a few of Tess Gerritsen's other books in this series back in high school before kind of drifting away from the series, but the premise of this one caught my eye. It's not bad, but somehow I never felt the sense of suspense or threat that I did in &quot;The Surgeon,&quot; w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7566655">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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