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The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles #6)
by
Tess Gerritsen (Goodreads Author)
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tess Gerritsen'sThe Silent Girl.
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.
PECCAVI
The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman’s brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It’s a chilling Christ...more
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.
PECCAVI
The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman’s brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It’s a chilling Christ...more
ebook, 286 pages
Published
September 21st 2006
by Random House, Inc./Random House Publishing Group
(first published January 1st 2006)
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The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman's brutal murder: "I HAVE SINNED". It'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'Donnell - Maura's professional nemesis and member of a secret society called "The Mephisto Club."
On tony Beacon Hill, the club's acolytes devote themselves to the analysis of evil: Can it be explained by science? D...more
The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman's brutal murder: "I HAVE SINNED". It'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'Donnell - Maura's professional nemesis and member of a secret society called "The Mephisto Club."
On tony Beacon Hill, the club's acolytes devote themselves to the analysis of evil: Can it be explained by science? D...more
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!
Many others have outlined the plot of THE MEPHISTO CLUB, so let me just say a few things: this is a great storyline, original, and handled deftly. The action-adventure is non-stop throughout the book, and although you know, basically from the beginning of the story, who t...more
Many others have outlined the plot of THE MEPHISTO CLUB, so let me just say a few things: this is a great storyline, original, and handled deftly. The action-adventure is non-stop throughout the book, and although you know, basically from the beginning of the story, who t...more
My first Tess Gerritsen book and I will definitely read her again. This was the latest book in a series she did surrounding a detective and medical examiner in Boston. This one dealt with a gruesome murder and the possibility of some "other worldly" forces at play. Definitely moved very well and kept my interest peaked, although did not have the kick I was expecting at the end, possibly due to lack of character development of a few key players.
Hair raisin. I was scared and spooked reading this.... Great.
While novels in the typical mystery genre usually don’t appeal to me, I decided to give Tess Gerritsen’s book “The Mephisto Club” a try. I had heard good things about the novel and the premise intrigued me. Detective Rizzoli and M.E. Isles, who seemed to be reoccurring characters, are pulled into a disturbing series of murders, all in which the victims are viciously mutilated. Certain aspects of the crimes lead the police to believe they have religious overtones, ones pertaining to Satan in part...more
Gaidīju ko vairāk. Ko smalkāku un elegantāku. Robusti sieviešu tēli - tādā ziņā, ka nav smalkuma raksturam, šķita kā iztēstas, bet ne noslīpētas. Sižets klasisks detektīvs, ar diezgan paredzamu galu. nekā pārsteidzoša vai pat nervus kutinoša. Vispār radās iespaids, ka grāmatas notikumi noris varbūt 80tajos, bet ne 21. gadsimtā.
Stāsts par dēmoniem mūsu vidū, kas nav cilvēki savos šausmu darbos. Brutālu, sātanisku slepkavību izmeklēšana. Galvenās detektīves attieksme un traumētā psihe ir absolūti...more
Stāsts par dēmoniem mūsu vidū, kas nav cilvēki savos šausmu darbos. Brutālu, sātanisku slepkavību izmeklēšana. Galvenās detektīves attieksme un traumētā psihe ir absolūti...more
Dec 24, 2012
Susan
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3 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
Rizzoli & Isles series fans
The Mephisto Club is the 6th book of the Rizzoli & Isles mystery series by Tess Gerritsen, set in modern-day Boston, Massachusetts. Jane Rizzoli is a police homicide detective; Maura Isles is the medical examiner.
Violent murders including dismemberment, torture and ritualistic symbolism prevent Jane and Maura from enjoying the Christmas holidays with family and friends. Instead they must work with The Mephisto Club, a group of researchers who believe in a race of evil non-humans, to identify...more
Violent murders including dismemberment, torture and ritualistic symbolism prevent Jane and Maura from enjoying the Christmas holidays with family and friends. Instead they must work with The Mephisto Club, a group of researchers who believe in a race of evil non-humans, to identify...more
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May 08, 2010
Alisha
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5 of 5 stars
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I think I should start out by mentioning that anything about demons or the Devil just scares the hell out of me. I'm not a particularly religious person, but was just traumatized by my viewing of The Exorcist when I was about twelve years old. So, yeah, I'm a wimp when it comes to that sort of stuff. However, I am inexplicably drawn towards the subject probably because I like to be scared sometimes (when it's daytime, of course). So, The Mephisto Club was right up my alley with Rizzoli and Isles...more
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I love this Isles/Rizzoli series and find each one a page-turner.
Back Cover Blurb:
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 psychiatrist who's made her name defending serial murderers.
But there are other clues left at the rundown house that make the police wonder if this slaying was part of a satanic ritual. Drawn on the wall, in blood, are ancient sym...more
Back Cover Blurb:
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 psychiatrist who's made her name defending serial murderers.
But there are other clues left at the rundown house that make the police wonder if this slaying was part of a satanic ritual. Drawn on the wall, in blood, are ancient sym...more
My daughter was reading the latest Gerritsen book (on my to-read list!) and kept mentioning The Mephisto Club and how much she loved it. Apparently, the club plays a role in the new book. Since it had been several years since I read it, I downloaded an electronic copy of The Mephisto Club from the library, then spent the next couple of days DEVOURING it! I had forgotten how good this book is!!
Gerritsen has a knack for describing characters and plots without extraneous "fluff". In this book a tr...more
Gerritsen has a knack for describing characters and plots without extraneous "fluff". In this book a tr...more
This book was given to me and I love it though I don't know what my exact thoughts are on the main characters are. Initially I didn't know that this book was part of a series, which most of you know that I am a super die hard lover of book series. When I read various reviews over at Amazon, I've got mixed reviews. Most of them suggested that if reading a book from this series is your first time, stay away from The Mephisto Club. I should have trusted those suggestions, but this book was a gift s...more
I am currently reading The Book of Jubilees because of the references Gerritsen uses in The Mephisto Club, which proved the most riveting work I've read by her. I've also requested The Book of Enoch for the same reason. 'Jubilees' and 'Enoch' were purportedly written two Centuries BC. They had been deemed apocryphal by early Christians and both works were thought to have been lost, until 'Enoch' (translated from Greek) surfaced in the 16th Century. More copies - written in Aramaic - found in 194...more
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This serial murder story had some strengths in building tension and throwing some surprising twists and turns, but it ultimately came off a bit contrived and overly baroque in its spectre of Satanic evils. The ball gets rolling with a gruesome murder in which the woman victim is dismembered and the scene reveals Satanic symbols and the message in Latin: �I have sinned�. The next murder brings Boston PD detective Jane Rizzoli and forensic pathologist Maura Isles into contact with a shadowy intern...more
The Mephisto Club is about the darker side of religion; the symbology, and the myths. I found it both fascinating and creepy. Dominic Saul, who is clearly different from everyone right from the beginning, goes to live with his aunt, uncle, and cousins after his father passes away. Sin is the theme of the story, so we see Rizzoli's parents' marriage falling apart. Dr Isles' relationship with the priest Father Brophy, and of course, all the grotesque murders of Lily Saul's childhood friends. I did...more
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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 story. But, I am going to assume that these side stories are progressing through the many books in the series. The story basically follows a detective and medical examiner as they progress through an horr...more
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Such a strange book to be reading on this night of all nights. I spent most of last night watching events unfold in Boston on my TV and computer, and tonight I watch what is,hopefully, the culmination of those events. Now I finish this night reading a book about evil loose in Boston. I'm not sure if Ms Gerritsen has gone off the tracks with this one,others are probably better judges of that. The plot of evil having a face and a history is kind of up my "urban fantasy" alley. I've also always bee...more
The subject matter of this novel was disturbing for me, but also a compelling read - a page turner! On Christmas Eve a decapitated body is found with other body parts scattered around in what looks like a satanic ritual. As Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli investigate the murder, they discover that the severed left hand does not match up to the arm. Then another murder of a policewoman bring them in contact with an organization called the Mephisto Club who are a gro...more
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Jul 04, 2012
Rob
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5 of 5 stars
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This was my first book by this author. I was intrigued by it when I read the back and the plot centered around the existence of Satan and about secret societies. I picked this out of the "books to share" cabinet at work not realizing the book was connected to one of my favorite TV shows, Rizolli and Isles. It was difficult to separate the faces of Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander (Jane Rizolli and Maura Isles respectively) from my reading but the story was really good. I liked the pacing of the...more
The Mephisto Club is the 6th of Tess Gerritsen’s Rizzoli/Isles series. On Christmas Eve, Rizzoli and Isles are called to a horrific murder scene where the female victim has been decapitated and dismembered. During the autopsy, however, they realise there must be more than one victim as the left hand does not match the arm. And a call has been made from the victim’s phone to Dr Joyce O’Donnell, the neuropsychiatrist who has made a career of defending serial killers. Before they can discover to wh...more
Sep 14, 2012
Ana T.
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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It seems I can't stay away from Rizzoli and Isles for too long so last week I grabbed book 6 - The Mephisto Club. As usual we start with a scene that will only make sense later and then we find Jane and Maura investigating a grotesque murder where the victim was decapitated. The manner in which the head is posed suggests a ritual of some kind and the severed hand found on the scene turns out not to belong to that body,
Then a cop is found murdered in the gardens of the owner of the mysterious Mep...more
Then a cop is found murdered in the gardens of the owner of the mysterious Mep...more
A mediocre page-turner, but entertaining, nonetheless. If I had a rating between a 3 and a 3+, that's probably where I would rate it. The Mephisto Club refers to a small group of people who are "devil chasers." They believe in the metaphysical "reality" of "lost angels," humans who have lost their way and return to do the Devil's work. When a policewoman is murdered on the property of Anthony Sansone, the Club's leader, on an evening when the Club is meeting, they believe it is a message to thei...more
This is a series that has almost become a diamond in the rough. I remember, the first book did not really strike me as great, but it was good enough for me to want to read the second one. Ever since, this series has really caught my attention. The setting has been mostly Boston, but this book travels to upstate New York. The Binghamton area, Lourdes Hospital, Norwich and even Syracuse are mentioned. Jane and Maura are tracking an evil force. With the unwanted assistance of the Mephisto Club, the...more
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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 characters at the start.
The book did a good job of being very creepy, and I'm not usually susceptible to that sort of atmosphere. Outside of that, the writing was good but not intrusive. I was able to e...more
The book did a good job of being very creepy, and I'm not usually susceptible to that sort of atmosphere. Outside of that, the writing was good but not intrusive. I was able to e...more
Good battles evil in this book. Rizzoli and Isles tackle a brutal murder of a dismembered young woman. A spare hand is left at the murder scene. During the course of their investigation, they become aware of The Mephisto Club, an elite, secretive group with lots of political clout.
The thriller takes place in the US and abroad as Lily Saul lives a life on the run. She's terrified to stay in one place too long, afraid that someone or something will find her. She jumps at shadows and with good reas...more
The thriller takes place in the US and abroad as Lily Saul lives a life on the run. She's terrified to stay in one place too long, afraid that someone or something will find her. She jumps at shadows and with good reas...more
The Mephisto Club, the sixth in the Jane Rizzoli/Maura Isles series (after Vanish), contains Tess Gerritsen's trademark lurid writing, grisly medical/forensic details, and chilling suspense. This time, as a satanically driven killer tortures and dismembers his victims, an esoteric cult considers the existence of a gene for evil. It's not a tale for the faint of heart; metaphysical inquiries into demonology and evil are matched, page by page, by grisly details. The only major criticism comes from
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How do we explain the horrific? The serial killer? The Mephisto Club is a murder mystery and is also a wonderful discussion of evil incarnate. Does it exist? In what form? Or is it simply superstition based upon the unknown? The story is told in three different perspectives and in two timelines, which can be confusing but, in my opinion, is worth the effort. It's certainly a testament to Ms. Gerritsen for being able to pull it off so well. The bigger discussion is woven through the mystery that...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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“I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”
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