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Vanish (Rizzoli & Isles #5)
by
Tess Gerritsen (Goodreads Author)
A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless new thriller from the New Your Times bestselling author of Body Double.
A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney awaiting the...more
A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney awaiting the...more
ebook, 269 pages
Published
August 23rd 2005
by Random House, Inc./Random House Publishing Group
(first published January 1st 2005)
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Jul 02, 2012
Buggy
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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Opening Line: "My name is Mila, and this is my journey."
VANISH is part 5 in the Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series. I read it as a stand alone however and did just fine, so I can recommend it that way too. I’d also never heard of author Tess Gerritsen before this but will definitely be searching out more from her and this series. I loved her style of writing, the realistic characters, the suspenseful medical based plot and the fast moving thrill of this story as a whole. There were elements tha...more
VANISH is part 5 in the Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series. I read it as a stand alone however and did just fine, so I can recommend it that way too. I’d also never heard of author Tess Gerritsen before this but will definitely be searching out more from her and this series. I loved her style of writing, the realistic characters, the suspenseful medical based plot and the fast moving thrill of this story as a whole. There were elements tha...more
My name is Mila and this is my journey.
I came to this country with great expectations of making a new life for myself. The thought of going overseas to start a new life left me with great joy. I had these great thoughts in my head of having a good job then meeting a handsome man who i would fall in love with and having many friends i could trust. The truth i discovered though was one of horror beyond redemption. One were all my expections were blown apart from lies so savage it left me scared an...more
I came to this country with great expectations of making a new life for myself. The thought of going overseas to start a new life left me with great joy. I had these great thoughts in my head of having a good job then meeting a handsome man who i would fall in love with and having many friends i could trust. The truth i discovered though was one of horror beyond redemption. One were all my expections were blown apart from lies so savage it left me scared an...more
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Apr 08, 2009
Sandi
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommended to Sandi by:
Mary JL Lesch
Shelves:
mystery-thriller,
2009
Let me just start off by saying that I don't read a lot of mystery/thrillers. However, it seems to me that one of the conventions of the genre requires have some sort of cop/detective in a series of books that all stand-alone. (Unlike the fantasy genre in which all the books in a series need to be read in order.) When I'm browsing in the genre, I sometimes get confused as to who the writer is and who the detective is. In the case of "Vanish" by Tess Gerritsen, I think the story would have been b...more
Another entertaining entry in this series that focused more on Jane Rizzoli and her changing family dynamics. The plot zipped right along and I do enjoy all the characters. I listened to the audio version read by Lorelei King who did a good job.
This is one of my favorite books in the series - The Keepsake(2008), is my very favorite. Vanish is a memorable story with an intense ending. If you like Vanish, try The Siege by Stephen White. If you liked The Siege, try Vanish by Tess Gerritsen :-) They have similar storylines, both dealing with hostage situations.
In Vanish, Tess Gerritsen does an admirable job of painting a picture of the horrors of white slavery in the United States. The first focus is on the heart-wrenching story of one of the young women lured to our country under false pretenses to become imprisoned as a sexual slave. The second focus is on the two admirable protagonists from other Garritsen novels, the feisty detective Jane Rizzoli and intense medical examiner Maura Isles. The comfort provided by these familiar characters helps to o...more
This book didn't quite measure up to the previous book in this series.
Partly I think it was because the title didn't quite line up with the story as well as previous titles did. Body Double, the book before this one, nailed the main plot dead on. This title tied into the main plotline only in the vaguest way.
The blurb on the back also read as if the whole story would revolve around a very pregnant Jane Rizzoli being held hostage and the efforts of Maura Isles and Jane's husband, Gabriel, workin...more
Partly I think it was because the title didn't quite line up with the story as well as previous titles did. Body Double, the book before this one, nailed the main plot dead on. This title tied into the main plotline only in the vaguest way.
The blurb on the back also read as if the whole story would revolve around a very pregnant Jane Rizzoli being held hostage and the efforts of Maura Isles and Jane's husband, Gabriel, workin...more
Really love this One. 4 thumbs up!!! Full term pregnant n Jane still could kick some pompuous ass at the court when she came as a witness, that's when her water broke and she's admitted to the hospital and the hell broke, she became one of the hostage instead..No normal delivery baby way for Rizzoli you betcha LOL.Poor Dane had to suffer in dread outside for her wife n unborn child..I can feel his emotion n tension.. No contraction after the water broke but she began her contraction just in time...more
This is my third Tess Gerritsen book and the more I read, the more I want to read. I know that I have read these completely out of order but I still found the story very enjoyable.
A corpse suddenly comes to life in the cold storage of the Medical Examiner's office and is rushed into hospital. Meanwhile Jane Rizzoli, a Homicide Detective with Boston Police Department, is in the hospital giving birth to her first child. A hostage situation brakes out and the story suddenly becomes very mysterious....more
A corpse suddenly comes to life in the cold storage of the Medical Examiner's office and is rushed into hospital. Meanwhile Jane Rizzoli, a Homicide Detective with Boston Police Department, is in the hospital giving birth to her first child. A hostage situation brakes out and the story suddenly becomes very mysterious....more
I have fallen in love with Tess Gerritsen's writing. This is the fifth in the series and I haven't been disappointed once and that is saying something.
The book opens in a court room with Jane Rizzoli on the witness stand. A week past her due date and very uncomfortable (as only a woman past her due date can be ... ask me both kids were two weeks late!). Through the sequence the defendant acts in contempt of court and the bailiff tries to escort him out and during the scuffle Rizzoli successfully...more
The book opens in a court room with Jane Rizzoli on the witness stand. A week past her due date and very uncomfortable (as only a woman past her due date can be ... ask me both kids were two weeks late!). Through the sequence the defendant acts in contempt of court and the bailiff tries to escort him out and during the scuffle Rizzoli successfully...more
I tend to read Tess Gerritsen books when I feel a reading slump coming on. They're just the perfect books to curb them since they're quick books that have you turning pages at an alarming speed. Anyway, that's why I picked up Vanish. I've been in final project hell and needed something that I would get into right away. While Vanish wasn't my favorite in the Rizzoli and Isles series, it definitely didn't disappoint.
Vanish doesn't so much start off with a bang, but rather a creepy and effective be...more
Vanish doesn't so much start off with a bang, but rather a creepy and effective be...more
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Tess Gerritsen- Vanish (Ballantine Books 2006) 4 Stars
Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is almost finished a day like every other, when suddenly her life changes in one moment. Hearing banging on the door to a cooler in the morgue she opens it to find that the Jane Doe, who had been brought in earlier in the day, was not indeed dead. After rushing the woman to the hospital she is shocked when the woman calmly takes control of the hospital and holds several people hostage, including a pregnant...more
Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is almost finished a day like every other, when suddenly her life changes in one moment. Hearing banging on the door to a cooler in the morgue she opens it to find that the Jane Doe, who had been brought in earlier in the day, was not indeed dead. After rushing the woman to the hospital she is shocked when the woman calmly takes control of the hospital and holds several people hostage, including a pregnant...more
The novel ‘Vanish’ by Tess Gerritsen is simply another proof that she is a wonderful author. Her prose is flawless, and her ability to keep her audience at the edge of their seats is something to be applauded for. Tess, the author, often writes about medical mysteries. I read her novel ‘The Surgeon’, and then I read ‘Vanish’. Her understanding of the medical field can be seen by how well she injects her knowledge into her works. The result is that she does sound very knowledgeable and trustworth...more
Vanish is the fifth of Tess Gerritsen’s Rizzoli/Isles series. The story starts with Maura Isles discovering a female in a body bag, an apparent drowning victim, who isn’t dead. Transferred to the hospital, the woman becomes violent, shoots a security guard and takes hostages. Jane Rizzoli, about to give birth, happens to be in the wrong place and becomes one of the hostages. Her husband, FBI Agent Gabriel Dean, her Boston PD colleagues and Maura Isles spare no effort trying to track down the wom...more
Sep 03, 2010
Ѽ Cher Ѽ
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
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Well to be honest, this genre is not my cup of tea! Never have been, never will be! So understand my first impression when I was dared to read one book from Tess Gerritsen.
Vanish is the 5th book of the Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series. However it was my 1st read of this genre, of this author, of this series.
The story starts off with a dead female corpse delivered to Dr Maura Isles's (Medical examiner) office. On a second visit to her morge, Maura discover that the female corpse brought in ear...more
Vanish is the 5th book of the Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series. However it was my 1st read of this genre, of this author, of this series.
The story starts off with a dead female corpse delivered to Dr Maura Isles's (Medical examiner) office. On a second visit to her morge, Maura discover that the female corpse brought in ear...more
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This was a great and fast paced read. It kept my heart-racing from the first page.
I think this is the most disturbing of all of the series that I've read so far. Nothing is more heartbreaking and devastating than to read about sex-trafficking. It is one of the most awful things that occur in this country and countries all over the world. It makes me sick to my stomach to even think about it. Reading about it wasn't my favorite thing but the story was so intriguing that it kept me going. I wanted...more
I think this is the most disturbing of all of the series that I've read so far. Nothing is more heartbreaking and devastating than to read about sex-trafficking. It is one of the most awful things that occur in this country and countries all over the world. It makes me sick to my stomach to even think about it. Reading about it wasn't my favorite thing but the story was so intriguing that it kept me going. I wanted...more
I seldom attempt to epitomize a book in my reviews. This is for two reasons. The first is that most books have a short summary on the back cover (something I seldom if ever read) and to re-write it would be a waste of time; and the second reason is: to add to it may rob the reader of some of the book’s fascination. Instead I try to explain why I enjoyed (or didn’t) a book and give just enough general information or impression to stimulate a potential reader one way or another.
Vanish by Tess Gerr...more
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Vanish:
The story that parallels the main narrative is really engaging and interesting here. I wish it had been given more time. The main narrative is a bit of a throw away and is nowhere near as good. It appears to be a vehicle for the secondary plot. Leave your series behind Ms. Gerritsen and write more books that stand on their own. Oh wait no, sorry, that would mean fewer guaranteed sales. My bad.
The Series:
This entire series is very nice. The writing is clean and precise. The economy of lang...more
The story that parallels the main narrative is really engaging and interesting here. I wish it had been given more time. The main narrative is a bit of a throw away and is nowhere near as good. It appears to be a vehicle for the secondary plot. Leave your series behind Ms. Gerritsen and write more books that stand on their own. Oh wait no, sorry, that would mean fewer guaranteed sales. My bad.
The Series:
This entire series is very nice. The writing is clean and precise. The economy of lang...more
We’re slowly knocking off the whole Rizzoli & Isles series, our pleasure only heightened by our fondness for the concurrently running TV series, which has the effect of bringing mind “video” to our reading. There’s an awful lot going on in this fifth entry in the series, with a dark tone being set with an opening prologue about some poor Russian girls being sold (via Mexico) into American sex slavery. Meanwhile, overdue, pregnant, Boston PD Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli is testifying in co...more
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Rizzoli & Isles installment number 5 does not disappoint! I think I enjoyed this one even more than Body Double. I would totally be digging into the next one already, but our roads are horrible so there aren't any impromptu trips to the library in my near future.
This thriller includes the scary labor/delivery experience Detective Rizzoli goes through to get her beautiful baby born. A mysterious hostage taker has Jane and others corralled into a waiting room at the hospital while everyone tri...more
This thriller includes the scary labor/delivery experience Detective Rizzoli goes through to get her beautiful baby born. A mysterious hostage taker has Jane and others corralled into a waiting room at the hospital while everyone tri...more
#5 in the Rizzoli and Isles series is a page-turning thriller. A seemingly dead body is found at a Boston marina floating in the water. Before medical examiner Maura Isles has a chance to do the autopsy, the victim opens her eyes. She is rushed to the hospital; and while visiting her later, Maura witnesses her kill a security guard with his gun and escapes her room with Maura as hostage. They work their way down to the Diagnostic Imaging center and the victim lets Maura go unexpectedly. Inside t...more
In my quest to finish the Rizzoli and Isles series, I was eager to pick up the fifth installment. However, I have to say this is my least favourite of the series - which I find disappointing as I was very excited by the premise of a hostage taking with Jane in labour.
The hostage taking scenes were well written and very suspenseful but I found the story after that was a bit hard to get into. It was very politically based, which is never my cup of tea. The flashback scenes starring Mila's charact...more
The hostage taking scenes were well written and very suspenseful but I found the story after that was a bit hard to get into. It was very politically based, which is never my cup of tea. The flashback scenes starring Mila's charact...more
This is another one of those books I'd like to give 3 1/2 stars rather than 4 but can't because of goodreads rating system. I always seem to skim chunks of Gerritsen's books rather than reading all the way through and this is unusual for me - but apparently not when it comes to Tess Gerritsen. Either there's too many autopsies described in WAY too much detail or, in this case, just an element of the case I have no interest in at all and in fact turned out to have very little bearing on the solut...more
You know those books that start with great promise, but then get worse and worse? The type of book that you feel obliged to finish, simply because you have to, not because you want to? Well this is what I felt about 'Vanish' by Tess Gerritsen.
The book grips at the start. A young woman, apparently dead, is fished from the cold waters of a Boston marina. But, after she's discovered to be alive in the morgue refrigerator, she's rushed to a local hospital, where she subsequently recovers sufficientl...more
The book grips at the start. A young woman, apparently dead, is fished from the cold waters of a Boston marina. But, after she's discovered to be alive in the morgue refrigerator, she's rushed to a local hospital, where she subsequently recovers sufficientl...more
A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless new thriller from the New Your Times bestselling author of Body Double.
A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down as the body, she gets t...more
A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down as the body, she gets t...more
A premissa deste 5º livro da saga de aventuras de Jane Rizzoli e Maura Isles parecia promissora: depois de ter sido declarado o seu óbito, uma mulher acorda na morgue; no hospital para onde tinha sido encaminhada, mata um segurança e faz 6 reféns, entre eles Rizzoli que se encontra em pleno trabalho de parto.
O livro mantém o ritmo acelerado a que a autora nos habituou nos outros livros ao mesmo tempo que nos prende a cada página com os elementos que introduz na história. Também Rizzoli continua...more
O livro mantém o ritmo acelerado a que a autora nos habituou nos outros livros ao mesmo tempo que nos prende a cada página com os elementos que introduz na história. Também Rizzoli continua...more
It is a rare occasion when I find a book so hard to put down that I fake stomach flu so that I can continue to read it.
Of course, a claim like this demands some form of context. After reading Body Double, the novel in the series prior to Vanish, right before returning to school after a long spring break, I was desperate to download Vanish to my Kindle. Although, I forced myself to refrain; I have a tendency to consume Gerritsen's books whole whenever I have even the most remote of access to the...more
Of course, a claim like this demands some form of context. After reading Body Double, the novel in the series prior to Vanish, right before returning to school after a long spring break, I was desperate to download Vanish to my Kindle. Although, I forced myself to refrain; I have a tendency to consume Gerritsen's books whole whenever I have even the most remote of access to the...more
Vanished by Tess Gerritsen is not only a good book but a very interesting one as well.
This is the story of Mila a russian girl who finds out that coming to America is not at all like her favorite movie "pretty woman" .Mila finds herself hunted by the very people who made her a prostitute and who will stop at nothing to see her and her friend dead . Mila knows something ,something that could destroy the life of a very prominent person . When Detective Rizzoli goes to the hospital to have her bab...more
This is the story of Mila a russian girl who finds out that coming to America is not at all like her favorite movie "pretty woman" .Mila finds herself hunted by the very people who made her a prostitute and who will stop at nothing to see her and her friend dead . Mila knows something ,something that could destroy the life of a very prominent person . When Detective Rizzoli goes to the hospital to have her bab...more
This is my first encounter with the increasingly popular author Tess Gerritsen and her series of books featuring Detective Jane Rizzoli and Dr. Maura Isles. The series of novels have been developed into a TV series called Rizzoli & Isles which I have been following; so when a member of the family offered to lend me one of Gerritsen's novels I thought why not?
As I know from experience, the book is always different from the movie/TV show and it was no different here. In Vanish, Detective Rizzo...more
As I know from experience, the book is always different from the movie/TV show and it was no different here. In Vanish, Detective Rizzo...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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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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“My name is Mila, and this is my journey.
There are so many places where I could begin the story. I could start in the town where I grew up, in Kryvicy, on the banks of the Servac River, in the district of Miadziel. I could begin when I was eight years old, on the day my mother died, or when I was twelve, and my father fell beneath the wheels of the neighbour’s truck. But I think I should begin my story here, in the Mexican desert, so far from my home in Belarus. This is where I lost my innocence. This is where my dreams died.”
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There are so many places where I could begin the story. I could start in the town where I grew up, in Kryvicy, on the banks of the Servac River, in the district of Miadziel. I could begin when I was eight years old, on the day my mother died, or when I was twelve, and my father fell beneath the wheels of the neighbour’s truck. But I think I should begin my story here, in the Mexican desert, so far from my home in Belarus. This is where I lost my innocence. This is where my dreams died.”
“She pressed her fingers to the woman’s neck and felt icy skin.
Bending close to the lips, she waited for the whisper of a breath, the faintest puff of air against her cheek.
The corpse opened its eyes.”
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Bending close to the lips, she waited for the whisper of a breath, the faintest puff of air against her cheek.
The corpse opened its eyes.”
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