Tess Gerritsen’s other notable works include, Never Say Die (1992), Keeper of the Bride (1996), Life Support (1997) and Bloodstream (1998). She is also the composer of the musical piece 'Incendio' for violin and piano, a waltz that features in the plot of her novel 'Playing With Fire'. She penned a number of essays for International Thriller Writers and Mystery Writers of America for her expert knowledge in thriller writing.

The story of the novel is set in the 1830s with a focus on grisly crime waves that took over Boston.īesides fiction writing, she has also written a screenplay for a TV movie, Adrift. Gerritsen also wrote a historical thriller, The Bone Garden (2007), alongside writing the series. The TV series is based on the first book only and its central characters. So far there are eleven novels in the series and it has been adapted into a television series as Rizzoli & Isles. The clever plot and strong female lead turned the series into an instant success. Maura Isles, a medical examiner who teams up with Rizzoli to help solve these cases with her expert medical opinion. The second novel, The Apprentice (2002) introduces Dr. The novel features the protagonist Jane Rizzoli, a homicide detective, who partners with Thomas Moore, tries to capture a killer with a medical skill set, who tortures and murders his victims. The first novel in this medical thriller series was The Surgeon which came out in 2001.

Gerritsen penned the critically acclaimed Rizzoli & Isles series. 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), The Bone Garden (2007), The Keepsake (2008), Ice Cold (2010), The Silent Girl (2011), Last To Die (2012), Die Again (2015) and Playing With Fire (2015). The novel was inspired by true events that she happened to know from a detective, about missing children’s cases in Moscow which authorities linked with the intention of harvesting their organs. Tess’s first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list.

Call After Midnight was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. In 1990, she quit medicine to write novels full-time. In 1987, her first novel, a romantic thriller Call After Midnight was published. Her first two novels remained unpublished. The story focused on a young male reflecting on a difficult relationship with his mother. She wrote the story On Choosing the Right Crack Seed for the magazine Honolulu. While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. After graduation in 1979, Tess Gerritsen started her career of a physician in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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