Presumed Guilty, Whistleblower & Never Say Die

by Tess Gerritsen

3 Novels in 1 Hardcover 0739403001: MIRA; 1st such Ed. (1999) (Hardcover) Three Complete Presumed Guilty Whistleblower Never Say Die by Tess Gerritsen

Genres: Fiction

566 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

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, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay, "Adrift", which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.

Tess's first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Her suspense novels since then have been: Life Support (1997), Bloodstream (1998), Gravity (1999), The Surgeon (2001), The Apprentice (2002), The Sinner (2003), Body Double (2004), Vanish (2005), The Mephisto Club (2006), and The Bone Garden (2007). Her books have been translated into 31 languages, and more than 15 million copies have been sold around the world.

As well as being a New York Times bestselling author, she has also been a #1 bestseller in both Germany and the UK. She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award (for Vanish) and the Rita Award (for The Surgeon.) Critics around the world have praised her novels as "Pulse-pounding fun" (Philadelphia Inquirer), "Scary and brilliant" (Toronto Globe and Mail), and "Polished, riveting prose" (Chicago Tribune). Publisher Weekly has dubbed her the "medical suspense queen".

Now retired from medicine, she writes full time. She lives in Maine.

Reviews

[Y · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sought these out because I'd read all of Gerritsen's medical thrillers and the Isles/Rizzoli series and enjoyed those. Unfortunately, these...aren't quite up to par.

True, I'm really not a good judge when it comes to romances, because I just plain don't like them. Romances that are romances and nothing else can sometimes be okay, since that's the main focus, but "______-romance" (fill in the blank with suspense, thriller, etc.) usually don't fare as well, because on the one side, you need to be focusing on the action and intrigue on the suspense side of things, while the romance part almost always feels forced in. Anyway.


Presumed Guilty - probably my "favorite" of the three, though nothing really special. Mystery, whodunit-type fare, the guy and the gal coming together wasn't too bad.

Whistleblower - The story itself isn't too bad: guy on the run because he knows a maverick group of the government is developing bacterial warfare components and he's not evil enough to hang out with them. Random woman finds him, helps him, gets mixed up in it all, they fall in love. It wouldn't be so bad if the two weren't so goddamned obnoxious "He doesn't really love me; after this he'll leave me, wah wah wah". Shut the fuck up. Basically, would've been better without the romance.

Never Say Die - The most action packed, but pissed me off the most, because dying is exactly what happens to lots and lots of side characters who don't deserve it. Naturally, the two leads get off scot-free, even though it was their goddamned nosing around that got so many people killed.