With every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home.

Now she hides her fears of intimacy behind a cool and elegant exterior and a well-earned reputation as a top trauma surgeon.Ĭordell's careful facade is about to crack as this new killer recreates, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell's own ordeal.

Catherine Cordell fought back and killed her attacker before he could complete his assault. The cops' only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim of a nearly identical crime. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him 'The Surgeon.' He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. To stop the massacre and uncover the twisted truth about her own roots, Maura must probe her first living subject the mother that she never knew… and icy and cunning woman who could be responsible for giving Maura life – and who just may have a plan to take it away.In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil-and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again.

But perhaps more frightening, and unknown murder is at large on a cross country killing spree. Searching for answers, Maura is drawn to a seaside town in Maine where other horrifying surprises await. And when a DNA test confirms that Maura’s mysterious doppelganger is in fact her twin sister, an already bizarre murder investigation becomes a disturbing and dangerous excursion into a past full of dark secrets. For the stunned Maura, an only child, there can be just one explanation. Even more chilling is the discovery that they share the same birth date and blood type. Yet there can be no denying the mind–reeling evidence before her shocked eyes and those of her colleagues, including Detective Jane Rizzoli: the woman found shot to death outside Maura’s home is the mirror image of Maura, down to the most intimate physical nuances. Because never before has the lifeless body on the medical examiner’s table been her own. But never before has her blood run cold, and never has the grim expression “dead ringer” rung so terrifyingly true. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more then her share of corpses every day – many of them victims of violent murder. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. Maura Isles literally meets her match – and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations– in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner.ĭr. “Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best.”-Harlan Cobenīoston medical examiner Dr.

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