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The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles #9)
by
Tess Gerritsen (Goodreads Author)
Every crime scene tells a story. Some keep you awake at night. Others haunt your dreams. The grisly display homicide cop Jane Rizzoli finds in Boston’s Chinatown will do both.
In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female’s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, her head nearly severed. Two...more
In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female’s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, her head nearly severed. Two...more
Hardcover, 315 pages
Published
July 5th 2011
by Random House Publishing Group
(first published January 1st 2011)
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Tess Gerritsen writes excellent, complex and well-plotted mysteries with a police-procedural bent which are right up my alley. This is no exception. While part of a series, this book could work as a stand-alone although you would miss some of the past events that drive character interactions. The only thing keeping this book from really hitting five stars for me is that there is just a little coolness to the writing style. I don't feel the characters' emotions quite as deeply as I would like. Th...more
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I have been a fan of Tess Gerritsen since I met her at a book signing about 10 years ago. I truly believe that she is one of the best thriller writers.
After a woman is found murdered in the Chinatown section of Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli follows the trail of the killer, leading her to an atrocious massacre from 19 years prior. As she puts clues of the current case together, Jane soon learns about the mysterious disappearance of several teenag...more
I have been a fan of Tess Gerritsen since I met her at a book signing about 10 years ago. I truly believe that she is one of the best thriller writers.
After a woman is found murdered in the Chinatown section of Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli follows the trail of the killer, leading her to an atrocious massacre from 19 years prior. As she puts clues of the current case together, Jane soon learns about the mysterious disappearance of several teenag...more
Tess has once again written a compelling mystery and woven all the threads in a beautiful tale. I felt Rat (who we met in the previous book, ICE COLD) played an important role in this story.
My favorite Rizzoli & Isles novel is The Keepsake (book 7 in the series); my second favorite in the series is ICE COLD (book 8). I think The Silent Girl ties with Vanish (book 5) as my 3rd favorite :-) Body Double is a good one too... Oh Hell, they are all so damn good because TESS GERRITSEN is AMAZING!!!...more
My favorite Rizzoli & Isles novel is The Keepsake (book 7 in the series); my second favorite in the series is ICE COLD (book 8). I think The Silent Girl ties with Vanish (book 5) as my 3rd favorite :-) Body Double is a good one too... Oh Hell, they are all so damn good because TESS GERRITSEN is AMAZING!!!...more
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Murder scenes can crawl under your skin and resonate with you for a long time after the fact... In Tess Gerritsen's The Silent Girl, Detective Jane Rizzoli of the Boston Police Department's Homicide Unit and Doctor Maura Isles, Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, are called to investigate one crime scene in the deep shadows of Boston's Chinatown. This crime scene reveals anther and eventually unravels a nineteen year old cold case murder that left five people dead. The...more
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This is the first book I read from this particular series, though not the first I read by Gerritsen. Though I liked this one, I must say I like her other books a lot more (gravity, bloodstream come to mind). I think the Asian myths part of this book is interesting and something I have not read anything about before. I liked the atmosphere that was created, that the path the detectives were on was clearly different than what they were used to and the cultural differences were in the way of them f...more
This is the first (and will be the only) book I have read from this series. After reading it, I'm confused as to why the series is popular or was turned into a TV show. The two main characters of the series, Rizzoli & Isles, are anything but. The story trudges along without either one playing a major role. Apart from lacking a central 'detective' (or two) to root for (or be entertained/intrigued/engaged by), the book also fails to offer much more than a convoluted story. Gerritsen's central...more
All day I have been watching the girl.
What an impressive opening line…the best crime starts with a great hook, and this one drags you straight in by the hair.
When a hand is found in a Chinatown alley in downtown Boston, Geritsen’s brilliant detective Jane Rizzoli climbs to a nearby rooftop and finds the hand’s owner – a woman whose throat has been slashed so deeply that her head is severed. The murder of this woman with no ID links to a horrifying murder suicide that happened nineteen years earl...more
What an impressive opening line…the best crime starts with a great hook, and this one drags you straight in by the hair.
When a hand is found in a Chinatown alley in downtown Boston, Geritsen’s brilliant detective Jane Rizzoli climbs to a nearby rooftop and finds the hand’s owner – a woman whose throat has been slashed so deeply that her head is severed. The murder of this woman with no ID links to a horrifying murder suicide that happened nineteen years earl...more
First of all, how excited was I to receive an early reviewer book my first time signing up? VERY! My introduction to Tess Gerritsen was about a year ago with The Sinner. I thoroughly enjoyed that book, not realizing it was the second book in the series. Since then, I've been meaning to go back and start from one. Now, with this book, I'm kicking myself for my procrastination. Relationships that were only inklings in the Sinner are confirmed here, so I feel like it is my own fault I got spoilers...more
4.0 out of 5 stars - Ninth book in the series doesn't disappoint.
After being so let down with Ice Cold, I was a bit hesitant to resume this series but this book was much better! It had the pace and excitement of Tess Gerritsen's previous thrillers and caught my interest right away.
Although the story starts with the discovery of a dead woman on a rooftop in present day Boston, the book deals primarily with a mass murder in Chinatown there that was ruled a murder-suicide 19 years previously. In a...more
After being so let down with Ice Cold, I was a bit hesitant to resume this series but this book was much better! It had the pace and excitement of Tess Gerritsen's previous thrillers and caught my interest right away.
Although the story starts with the discovery of a dead woman on a rooftop in present day Boston, the book deals primarily with a mass murder in Chinatown there that was ruled a murder-suicide 19 years previously. In a...more
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Overall Rating 4.75
Character Rating 4.50
Thriller Rating 5.00
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NOTE: Silent Girl reminded me of why I fell in love with the Rizzoli and Isles series in the first place. If you love a good thriller then this book should be on your list to read!
What I Loved: The Chinese history and tradition used in this book was amazing. It added depth and character to an already richly woven thriller that had you guessing for a...more
Overall Rating 4.75
Character Rating 4.50
Thriller Rating 5.00
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NOTE: Silent Girl reminded me of why I fell in love with the Rizzoli and Isles series in the first place. If you love a good thriller then this book should be on your list to read!
What I Loved: The Chinese history and tradition used in this book was amazing. It added depth and character to an already richly woven thriller that had you guessing for a...more
If you are like me then you are a huge Tess Gerritsen Fan and have or been dying to get your hands on her latest The Silent Girl - I know I have. It's been months since I first put my name on the waiting list at the library but it has finally arrived and I read it in one day :). The Silent Girl features three different time periods. The first is Nineteen years ago , when it was said that a Chinese cook named Mr. Wu went on a killing spree in a Chinatown restaurant and murdered five people and th...more
I think I've read all of Tess Gerritsen's books, and this may be her best yet. By using her Asian heritage and more over-the-top humor and risks, she's produced a book that has almost a graphic novel feel, but sits well on her Rizzoli & Isles shelf at the same time.
After finding a dead woman with a severed hand on the roof of a building, Rizzoli & Isles find themselves following an invisible killer out of Chinese folklore--and an equally invisible and implacable hero from the same source...more
After finding a dead woman with a severed hand on the roof of a building, Rizzoli & Isles find themselves following an invisible killer out of Chinese folklore--and an equally invisible and implacable hero from the same source...more
A severed hand is found in Boston’s Chinatown and soon afterwards, Detective Jane Rizzoli finds the rest of the woman on a rooftop. The victim is dressed in all black and her head has been cut so severely that her head is nearly separated from her body. Two silver hairs are the only clues found at the scene, hairs that are nearly impossible to identify.
Soon though, Rizzoli and Maura Isles make a link to a nineteen year old crime, when five people died in a shooting in a restaurant in Chinatown....more
Soon though, Rizzoli and Maura Isles make a link to a nineteen year old crime, when five people died in a shooting in a restaurant in Chinatown....more
The fifth star may be a tiny bit over the top due to the fact that the book I read just previous was such a stinker but Gerritsen has yet to disappoint and this is no exception. Essentially a mystery or suspense novel I find Gerritsen to be well written and well crafted. Kept me guessing right up to the end. I actually guessed the outcome correctly but discarded my conclusion in favor of another only to be surprised at the finish. And she didn't cheat and blatantly mislead the reader down a merr...more
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This is a great mystery that had me guessing all through the book. I love Rizzoli and Isles, whether separately or together. This is more focused on Rizzoli.
Tess Gerritsen uses Chinese mythology as the basis for her story. Almost twenty years ago, there was a shooting that killed five people in a restaurant in Boston's Chinatown. Someone is now sending messages to the relatives of the dead, saying the truth has not been told. It was not a murder/suicide committed by the cook. Tied into this is t...more
Tess Gerritsen uses Chinese mythology as the basis for her story. Almost twenty years ago, there was a shooting that killed five people in a restaurant in Boston's Chinatown. Someone is now sending messages to the relatives of the dead, saying the truth has not been told. It was not a murder/suicide committed by the cook. Tied into this is t...more
I discovered Tess Gerritsen's wonderful Rizzoli and Isles series last year with the excellent novel Ice Cold. Then of course I started reading the earlier novels so it was a pleasure to go forward with The Silent Girl. In this outing Gerritsen visits her Chinese roots and sets the story in Boston's Chinatown. As I live in an area, Vancouver, that has a huge Chinese population and a legendary Chinatown that is both intriguing and mysterious I was ready for the mysteries of Boston's Chinatown.
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my absolute, absolute, absolute favourite of tess's! (and this has nothing to do with my asian heritage)
feeling a love i cant quite put into words right now. this book, for me, contained just the right elements - the suspense, the twists, the action.. everything. tess added just enough clues in the story (hidden in the details - just as i like it) for you to play whodunnit, but threw in twists to throw you off your game, only to serve with an ending that i did not anticipate.
also, the tension?...more
feeling a love i cant quite put into words right now. this book, for me, contained just the right elements - the suspense, the twists, the action.. everything. tess added just enough clues in the story (hidden in the details - just as i like it) for you to play whodunnit, but threw in twists to throw you off your game, only to serve with an ending that i did not anticipate.
also, the tension?...more
Jul 19, 2011
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The Silent Girl, by Tess Gerritsen, b-plus, narrated by Tanya Edy, produced by Brilliance Audio, downloaded from audible.com.
This is the latest in the Jane Risoli and Maura Isles series. The main issue in this case involves Jane being called to a crime scene where tourists on a Chinatown Ghost tour found a real severed hand. Soon they found the rest of the body. A series of events leads Jane and her fellow officers to re-open a 19-year-old tragedy where four people were killed in a Chinese resta...more
This is the latest in the Jane Risoli and Maura Isles series. The main issue in this case involves Jane being called to a crime scene where tourists on a Chinatown Ghost tour found a real severed hand. Soon they found the rest of the body. A series of events leads Jane and her fellow officers to re-open a 19-year-old tragedy where four people were killed in a Chinese resta...more
Just in time for the return of the TNT series "Rizzoli & Isles," July is the release date for Tess Gerritsen's newest novel in that series. I love the TV series but hadn't read one of the books for quite some time.
Gerritsen's Acknowledgments notes that this story is more personal than her others, drawing as she did on her mother's background growing up in China. We learn Chinese legends and culture in a story that is wonderfully mysterious and gripping. Jane's team is joined by a Chinese pol...more
Gerritsen's Acknowledgments notes that this story is more personal than her others, drawing as she did on her mother's background growing up in China. We learn Chinese legends and culture in a story that is wonderfully mysterious and gripping. Jane's team is joined by a Chinese pol...more
In "The Silent Girl", Tess Gerritsen delivers another tale of mystery, murder, and mayham, starring TV-famous Jane Rizzoli--detective with a heart--and Maura Isles, a medical examiner who searches only for truth (a contendor for Patricia Cornwall's early caricature of Kay Scarpetta, now abandoned for a darker, more depressing person I barely recognize). The story is told through the eyes of both the people solving the crime and the person suspected of committing it. This book, though, comes with...more
Jul 29, 2011
Linda Branham Greenwell
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Tess Gerritsen not only lives up to her reputation for well-crafted novels but outdoes herself in "The Silent Girl" with the a carefully researched storyline situated in Chinese folktales and culture. Gerritsen reveals her hand slowly with the kind of expert pacing that ensures one will want to read "just one more chapter."
A beautiful and mysterious woman is murdered on the roof of a building in Chinatown - her hand is severed and her throat was slashed. This murder leads them to a 19 year old...more
A beautiful and mysterious woman is murdered on the roof of a building in Chinatown - her hand is severed and her throat was slashed. This murder leads them to a 19 year old...more
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Blurb From Goodreads
Every crime scene tells a story. Some keep you awake at night. Others haunt your dreams. The grisly display homicide cop Jane Rizzoli finds in Boston’s Chinatown will do both.
In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female’s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, her head nearly severed. Two strands of silver hair—not human—cling to her body. They are Rizzoli’s only c...more
Blurb From Goodreads
Every crime scene tells a story. Some keep you awake at night. Others haunt your dreams. The grisly display homicide cop Jane Rizzoli finds in Boston’s Chinatown will do both.
In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female’s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, her head nearly severed. Two strands of silver hair—not human—cling to her body. They are Rizzoli’s only c...more
I've read all of Tess Gerritsen's other books and probably enjoyed this one better than some of her other, current releases, especially within this series of Rizzoli & Isles.
Total side note here: the T.V. show is a totally different story compared to the books! (Isn't it always?) So if you enjoy the t.v. show but haven't read the books- I don't think they can compare and probably vice versa because I cannot watch the t.v. show since I've read the books! anyway....
The last book I had read of...more
Total side note here: the T.V. show is a totally different story compared to the books! (Isn't it always?) So if you enjoy the t.v. show but haven't read the books- I don't think they can compare and probably vice versa because I cannot watch the t.v. show since I've read the books! anyway....
The last book I had read of...more
A human hand is found during a ghost tour in Chinatown. On the roof of a building is the rest of the body of a woman with no I.D. and a gun lying nearby, a gun she had possibly used to kill her attacker. The investigation leads to a murder-suicide that took place nineteen years ago at the Red Phoenix restaurant in Chinatown. One thin thread connecting the murders is the disappearance of two young girls. Maura Isles meanwhile is entertaining “Rat,” a young boy who had saved her life in a previous...more
Wow! I'm not a fan of books that reuse characters over and over, but Gerritsen does it beautifully. Reading as many books as I do, it's hard to be surprised and not 'guess' who the bad guys are. This story has a lot of twists and turns and just when I thought I could figure out the mystery...it twists again. I'm in awe of authors who can weave many threads in a story and tie it all together in a neat bow at the end. Gerritsen does this time after time.
Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli & Isles books are an entertaining read. They are all fluff with absolutely no substance and they are quick and fast. That's really the most positive aspects of her novels. The Silent Girl is an okay novel. My problem with this one was that it wasn't all that interesting to me. I wasn't consumed by having to know what happened. There was very little interaction between Jane and Maura; in fact Maura barely shows up in this book. For those of you who are fans of the tv...more
This review will be posted on my blog on August 27th.
I haven't really read any of Gerritsen's long stories in the Rizzoli and Isles series so I wasn't too familiar with her work. However, I wasn't disappointed with this book. It's very well written. It has the perfect balance of description and moving along with the plotline so the story never really gets boring. There is also a nice balance between police detective work and forensic evidence from Dr. Isles to wrap up the mystery neatly and ni...more
I haven't really read any of Gerritsen's long stories in the Rizzoli and Isles series so I wasn't too familiar with her work. However, I wasn't disappointed with this book. It's very well written. It has the perfect balance of description and moving along with the plotline so the story never really gets boring. There is also a nice balance between police detective work and forensic evidence from Dr. Isles to wrap up the mystery neatly and ni...more
The latest installment of Tess Geritsen Rizolli and Isles series finds Rizolli investigating the murder of a Jane Doe and Dr. Isles finds herself on the outs with the police force after testifying against a police officer who brutally beat a cop killer to death. The Jane Doe, found on a rooftop after her severed hand was found in the alley below, appeared to be tied to a gruesome murder-suicide from nearly two decades before, and Rizolli finds herself looking into the past to solve a current mur...more
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| this book was verry good. | 9 | 44 | May 11, 2013 01:01pm | |
| The Mystery, Crim...: May/June 2012: The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen | 26 | 143 | Aug 14, 2012 11:06am | |
| Jane vs. Maura's POV | 35 | 68 | Dec 11, 2011 05:01pm |
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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“With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.”
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