Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of ...
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Jun 28, 2010
Raíla
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Even though I have already read and reviewed The Surgeon and The Apprentice, Tess' previous books in the series, I still feel that it's such a perkiness of mine to review any book written by this genious (I emphasize: genious!). Gerritsen, one more time, now through The Sinner, made me hook into her writing until the end, NOT letting me to put it down, despite a few flaws I found that I dare myself to point again.
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Nov 30, 2007
Lain
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Rare is the thriller that can scare me enough to leave the lights on at night, while bringing me to tears. The Sinner did both. Filled with more twists and turns than a labyrinth, The Sinner throws a curve at both Jane Rizzoli and ME Maura Isles. Jane must deal with a huge obstacle in her life as well as her relationship with Gabriel Dean, and Maura must face her own ghosts in the form of her ex-husband.
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Jul 26, 2008
Bev
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This actually comes in between "The Apprentice" and "Body Double." Explains some stuff that happens in "Body Double," but reading it out of sequence didn't matter. Still a page turner. The crime in this one is the murder of a young nun in the convent of a cloistered order and the near murder of an older nun, who remained in a coma. What is the connection between the nuns' murder and that of a faceless, hand-less and foot-less body found in an alley?
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Sep 08, 2007
LJ
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THE SINNER – G+
Tess Gerritsen – 7th book
When two Boston nuns are found brutally beaten--one fatally and one with a scintilla of life left in her--it's up to homicide detective Jane Rizzoli to find the perpetrator. Medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles has the unlucky fortune to discover that the murdered nun hid untold secrets from the rest of the aging convent. Another dead body turns up, and the investigators must rely on their clinical analysis to determine who she is and why she was m More...
Tess Gerritsen – 7th book
When two Boston nuns are found brutally beaten--one fatally and one with a scintilla of life left in her--it's up to homicide detective Jane Rizzoli to find the perpetrator. Medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles has the unlucky fortune to discover that the murdered nun hid untold secrets from the rest of the aging convent. Another dead body turns up, and the investigators must rely on their clinical analysis to determine who she is and why she was m More...
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Jan 28, 2012
Felicia
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Publisher: Bantam
Purchased: Bought on Audible
What I Loved: This one is more intense than the last two (and they were pretty darn intense). I really enjoyed the case with all of its twists and turns. I never really knew what was going to happen. I really love that in a thriller. The case really blew me away with its intensity and cleverness. I really thought it would be one person responsible and I was completely wrong.
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Purchased: Bought on Audible
What I Loved: This one is more intense than the last two (and they were pretty darn intense). I really enjoyed the case with all of its twists and turns. I never really knew what was going to happen. I really love that in a thriller. The case really blew me away with its intensity and cleverness. I really thought it would be one person responsible and I was completely wrong.
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May 03, 2011
Mrs. Foley
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Third in a series...inspired the TV show, "Rizzoli and Isles." Definitely a page turner. If I have time, I would like to continue reading in the series, but other books are calling! :)
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When two Boston nuns are found brutally beaten--one fatally and one with a scintilla of life left in her--it's up to homicide detective Jane Rizzoli to find the perpetrator. Medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles, nicknamed the Queen of the Dead, has the unlucky fortune More...
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When two Boston nuns are found brutally beaten--one fatally and one with a scintilla of life left in her--it's up to homicide detective Jane Rizzoli to find the perpetrator. Medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles, nicknamed the Queen of the Dead, has the unlucky fortune More...
Sep 13, 2009
Sharon
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Tess Gerritsen is a master of medical thrillers. I feel like I know Dr. Isles and Detective Rizzoli by now as I've read 3 or 4 of Gerritsen's books. I wasn't aware of the order of the books, and I've read newer ones before the first books in the series! I found it interesting that this book explained a lot to me of later books....for example, Jane learns that she is pregnant and she wasn't married to Gabriel. I didn't know the history!
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Aug 18, 2010
Kristy
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Okay, let me apologize to Tess Gerritsen right now. Long ago I read or skimmed THE SURGEON and didn't like it. Recently I skimmed it again and still didn't care for it. But to be sure how I felt about Gerritsen I read the follow-up THE APPRENTICE. That intrigued me more but I still wasn't sure I was a fan. So, just finished Rizzoli & Isles book 3 THE SINNER and am damned impressed. Very good story and the characters are even more compelling this time around. I confess to skimming all deta
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Nov 05, 2011
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The Blurb
Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical examiner Maura Isles’s autopsy of the dead woman yields a shocking surprise: Twenty-year- More...
The Blurb
Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical examiner Maura Isles’s autopsy of the dead woman yields a shocking surprise: Twenty-year- More...
Jun 23, 2011
Marianne
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The Sinner is the 3rd in Tess Gerritsen’s Rizzoli/Isles series. The action starts with a murder and an attempted murder in a convent of aging nuns. The murder victim is a young novice about to take her final vows, but during the autopsy Maura Isles finds that the novice has recently given birth. Another body turns up, a shooting victim without a face, hands or feet, and with some unusual nodules on the skin. Yet another body, this time in Providence, Rhode Island, shot with the same gun, brings
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Aug 23, 2010
Emily
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The third installment of Tess Gerritsen's series on Rizzoli & Isles has things heating up relationship wise for both Rizzoli & Isles. We learn verry interesting new information on both women about former love interests and the case they are dealing with is also quite intriguing.
The new case centers on the death of a nun and a serious attack against another. The murdered nun has quite a few skeletons in her closet for a 20 year old who has devoted herself to God and More...
The new case centers on the death of a nun and a serious attack against another. The murdered nun has quite a few skeletons in her closet for a 20 year old who has devoted herself to God and More...
Dec 17, 2011
Alison
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I haven't watched the television series, but after reading this book I just might start (if it hasn't already been cancelled). The characters are believable which is a good start for a mystery. One nun is murdered; another is in critical condition; and an apparently homeless women is found murdered in the bathroom floor of a restaurant closed a while ago(gruesom murder, the hands and feet have been amputated and the face - well let's just say nothing left to identify). Enter the ex-husband of
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Mar 11, 2009
Stacey
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Nov 26, 2008
Elizabeth
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Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered in the early morning hours at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the sanctuary walls of the cloistered convent, now stained with blood, lie two nuns- one dead, one critically injured- victims of an unspeakable savage attacker.
The brutal crime appears to be without motive, and the elderly nuns in residence can offer little help in the police investigation. More...
The brutal crime appears to be without motive, and the elderly nuns in residence can offer little help in the police investigation. More...
Apr 11, 2011
Boof
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The third book in the Rizzoli and Isles series, and to be honest one that I thought I wouldn’t enjoy as much as the first two. I’m not particularly keen on books that deal with religion in either a conspiracy way or cults and sects (they make me feel uncomfortable) and the title of The Sinner made me think I may be in store for something Dan Brownish which made me shiver somewhat. Not so. I am just as happy to report this is just as fantastic as the first two and not a conspiracy theory in sight
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Jun 13, 2011
Karthiga
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Aug 05, 2011
Michelle♥
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So this book took a different view point. We finally got to see more of Dr. Maura Isles and hear her voice.
This one was not as intriguing to me as the Surgeon was. I still want to continue on with the series to see where these characters go and how they develop.
Unfortunately, it was the plot that did not do it for me.
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This one was not as intriguing to me as the Surgeon was. I still want to continue on with the series to see where these characters go and how they develop.
Unfortunately, it was the plot that did not do it for me.
***Spoilers from here on out!****
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Sep 14, 2010
Akika
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My first Tess Gerritsen. I've been trying to find the first in her Rizzoli & Isles series (The Surgeon), but I haven't managed, so I gave in and read this one because it involved nuns and we all know I'm a sucker for stories with nuns. This was an interesting book, both because it was unexpected and because it was typical. There were some twists that were obvious and it didn't take me too long to cotton on to who the killer was (in that I figured it out the second or third time we saw him). The
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Feb 18, 2011
Kathy
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The crime? two nuns - one young, one old... both beaten, the young one to death, the old one to coma... why? The focus is on the young one, who had given birth (unknowingly to the other sisters) to an encephilitis baby - and she buried her in the pond... but the real reason for their deaths? the older nun had spent some time in a leper villiage in India... the India was wiped out by a US chemical company nearby, and to cover it up, someone went to the village to burn the evidence - killing a
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Aug 19, 2010
Katie
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This is one of those times that I wish goodreads had the half star option when rating a novel because this one sits somewhere between 4 and 5 stars for me. Once again I was hooked from page 1 of this novel, the third in Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli & Isles series. The crime itself was interesting, I loved that we got to see more of Maura out of the lab and learn much of her back story which was really interesting and without being spoilerish, I liked how all these little pieces of information scatte
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May 07, 2010
Loraine
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First I got to say that I read all Tess Gerritsen books , everything she writes I love them all even her earlier books are fantastic and should be made into movies .My favorite Character is Det Jane Rizzoil she is just the best character .
In The Sinner Jane has to try and find the person who killed 2 nuns in there cloistered convent. Is this a random killing or something more sinister . Jane is puzzled by this murder who would want to kill a nun . After hearing the autopsy findings f More...
In The Sinner Jane has to try and find the person who killed 2 nuns in there cloistered convent. Is this a random killing or something more sinister . Jane is puzzled by this murder who would want to kill a nun . After hearing the autopsy findings f More...
Oct 29, 2011
Alice
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The Sinner:
Very nice set up with a disappointing ending.
The Series:
This entire series is very nice. The writing is clean and precise. The economy of language is extremely welcome for what is arguably a throw away, airport read. Occasional plots are good enough to raise Ms. Gerritsen's writing a step above the previously mentioned class.
Bottom line: If this is your entire literary diet, you will be lacking some much needed nourishment, but as an ent More...
Very nice set up with a disappointing ending.
The Series:
This entire series is very nice. The writing is clean and precise. The economy of language is extremely welcome for what is arguably a throw away, airport read. Occasional plots are good enough to raise Ms. Gerritsen's writing a step above the previously mentioned class.
Bottom line: If this is your entire literary diet, you will be lacking some much needed nourishment, but as an ent More...
Jan 03, 2012
Beth
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I've come to the conclusion that you simply have to read these books as being totally separate from the television series. Each is good in its own way, but other than some character traits, the characters in the book are totally different to those in the series. And as long as you keep the two straight in your head, you're fine. :)
This one was good, as were the first two. It took me a while to see what was coming, but once one scene began happening, I figured it out immediately. I have More...
This one was good, as were the first two. It took me a while to see what was coming, but once one scene began happening, I figured it out immediately. I have More...
Oct 29, 2010
Zanahoria (Taly)
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As I advance through the saga, I find an interesting M.O. Each installement is focused on a different character, usually introducing the one that'll be the leading one in the next book. The narrative follows one person, jumping sometimes, for a short while, to a secondary character, who later gets to be lead.
It's unusual, and even more strange, is the fact that Rizzoli is always the pull, the center, even when barely getting screen time (I'm thinking of the first volume particularly). More...
It's unusual, and even more strange, is the fact that Rizzoli is always the pull, the center, even when barely getting screen time (I'm thinking of the first volume particularly). More...
Sep 28, 2009
Jennifer
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I have read a lot of Tess Gerritsen's books and they are similar to Patricia Cornwell's--lots of dead bodies, autopsies, and CSI-type scenarios. I was in the mood for a thriller and this one was pretty good. Not as action-packed as I would have liked, but definitely a good story and an interesting premise: 2 nuns found beaten, one dead and one barely alive, and it's discovered on autopsy that the younger nun had recently given birth. Now there's an interesting twist! Two other murder victims
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Jan 16, 2012
Sandra
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I've still never seen the television series, & I've wondered when Isles would come into the book series. In this , the 3rd book in the series, Isles becomes an important part of the series. In book 2, she was casually seen from time to time, but in 
, you get to know her character in much greater depth. You learn a lot more about Rizzoli as well. I always say that I love a good series, so on I go to book 4, 
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, you get to know her character in much greater depth. You learn a lot more about Rizzoli as well. I always say that I love a good series, so on I go to book 4, .
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Sep 04, 2010
Sheila
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Another exciting, well-written mystery/thriller from this talented author. It's rather different from the first two in the series, which were unputdownable serial-killer thrillers, but this one is just as good in its own way, a whodunit in which the police investigation into some horrific murders is nicely balanced with romance and a closer look into Rizzoli's and Isles' personal lives. There is explicit violence, along with some grisly descriptions, in these books, so they're not for the squeam
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Sep 14, 2010
Alison
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Sep 02, 2011
Jerry
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We’ve read now five of Gerritsen’s popular Rizzoli & Isles series (“Sinner” is #3 in the set), and have enjoyed them all. As we fill in a few we missed and finish the set (nine total at the moment), we had to wonder if entertainment values would increase or decline with the images of TV stars Angie Harmon & Sasha Alexander running around in one’s head, as we really enjoy that TV show, with protagonists quite true to the book’s characters. The good news is that those mind pictures only added to
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