
from The New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Surgeon And The Apprentice Comes A Chilling New Novel Of Suspense Featuring Boston Medical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles, On The Deadly Trail Of An Anonymous Madman Who S Committed An Unholy Crime.... the Sinner 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 Unspeakably Savage Attacker. Tess Gerritsen Left A Successful Practice As An Internist To Raise Her Children And Concentrate On Her Writing. She Gained Nationwide Acclaim For Her First Novel Of Medical Suspense, The New York Times Bestseller Harvest. She Is Also The Author Of The Bestsellers Life Support, Bloodstream, Gravity, And The Surgeon And The Apprentice. Tess Gerritsen Lives In Maine. publishers Weekly a Grisly Murder At A Convent Baffles Medical Examiner Maura Isles And Det. Jane Rizzoli At The Start Of This Assured, Richly Shaded Seventh Novel From Bestseller Gerritsen (the Apprentice; The Surgeon, Etc.). The Popular Duo Are Called To Boston's Graystones Abbey When Two Nuns Are Discovered In An Abandoned Chapel, One Dead And The Other Near Death, Both Brutally Bludgeoned. Red Herrings Are Everywhere: Isles's Discovery That One Of The Murdered Nuns Had Recently Given Birth (followed Shortly By The Discovery Of The Baby's Body In A Pond Near The Convent); The Murder Of A Homeless Derelict With Her Face And Extremities Removed By Her Killer; And The Lurking Menace Of A Multinational Chemical Company. Complicating Matters Further Is The Sudden Arrival Of Isles's Ex-husband, Victor, A Celebrity Humanitarian With His Own Suspicious Connection To The Case, And Rizzoli's Old Flame, Fbi Agent Gabriel Dean, Who's Responsible For The Baby Now Growing In Rizzoli's Belly.
Page Count:
0
Publication Date:
2007-01-01
ISBN-10:
0739303392
ISBN-13:
9780739303399
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