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Last to Die
Author: Tess Gerritsen
3 children from different families, living in different cities, and who are strange to each other, survive the massacre of their families and are put under the care of foster parents. Two years later their foster families are killed, but again the (now) teenagers are the only survivors. With no one else to look after them, they are sent to Evensong, a special school for traumatized children – if you read The Killing Place, this is the school Dr. Maura Isles puts Julian “Rat” Perkins (and his dog Bear) after their ordeal on that book – and which is remote and supposed to be absolutely safe.
Detectives Jane Rizzoli and Barry Frost are investigating one of the massacres and start to uncover and pursue the connection between the 3 cases, while Dr. Isles is at Evensong spending a couple of weeks with Julian. With the 3 teens at the same place, weird things start to happen and soon it becomes clear that their lives are at risk and the school is not safe anymore, and the closer Jane gets to the truth, the faster the killer has to act.
The Killing Place (UK) / Ice Cold (US)
Author: Tess Gerritsen
While attending a pathologist’s conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Dr. Maura Isles impulsively (and due to personal problems back home with her lover-priest Daniel Brophy) goes on a road trip with her new friends. Caught up by a huge snow storm, they get stranded in the middle of nowhere, a place called Kingdom Come, where it seems all residents left abruptly for some mysterious reason.
When she doesn’t turn up in Boston, Jane Rizzoli, together with her husband Gabriel Dean and tormented soul Daniel Brophy, fly to Wyoming to search for her.
The Silent Girl
Author: Tess Gerritsen
First of all, I like Tess Gerritsen’s books very much, in particular the ones with Detective Jane Rizzoli and Dr. Maura Isles, a forensic pathologist whom I usually compare and put at the same level as Kay Scarpeta (Patricia Cornwell’s character).
The Silent Girl, though, disappointed me. I read the book until the end, but only because I don’t like to leave a story unfinished, and also because I was hoping it would get better, which it didn’t.
A body is found in Boston’s Chinatown, which brings Rizzoli to the investigation and Maura Isles to do the autopsy – and she finds two non-human hair strands in the clothes of the victim. This murder is soon connected to a tragedy that occurred 17 years ago, also there in Chinatown. Read the rest of this entry
