New Releases by Tess Gerritsen

INCLUDES A BONUS SHORT STORY BY LEE CHILD AND TESS GERRITSEN, STARRING JACK REACHER AND THE ENIGMATIC MAGGIE BIRD. . . The Summer Guests is the exhilarating and gripping new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author of The Spy Coast. ''I love this new series . . . The Summer Guests is a cracker of a mystery! I couldn''t put it down.'' SHARI LAPENA ''What a ride - The Summer Guests hooked me from the first explosive chapter. . . Immersive, compelling, utterly addictive - a masterclass in storytelling.'' ANDREA MARA THE MARTINI CLUB ISN''T OPEN TO EVERYONE . . . Maggie Bird''s ''book group'' is an unusual one - a group of retired spies living an anonymous life in the seaside town of Purity. And this summer they plan little more than ''reading'' (whilst sipping martinis), and some gentle birdwatching. But trouble is just around the corner as the summer guests arrive. For acting Police Chief Jo Thibodeau, summer brings its own problems - packed streets, bar brawls, petty theft. And now, a missing teenager down by the lake. When their good friend becomes a prime suspect in the girl''s disappearance, Maggie and her Martini Club must put down their binoculars and roll up their sleeves. Leaving Jo to deal with not only a powerful family desperate for answers, but a meddlesome group of retirees. Can Jo and the Martini Club find a way to work together, as they uncover one of the deadliest scandals their small town has ever seen? ''The Thursday Murder Club on steroids'' SAGA Magazine PRAISE FOR TESS GERRITSEN: ''I love her books. She is a big influence.'' FREIDA McFADDEN

A retired CIA operative in small-town Maine tackles the ghosts of her past in this fresh take on the spy thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she''s living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement. But when a body turns up in Maggie''s driveway, she knows it''s a message from former foes who haven''t forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends--all retirees from the CIA--to help uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why. This \"Martini Club\" of former spies may be retired, but they still have a few useful skills that they''re eager to use again, if only to spice up their rather sedate new lives. Complicating their efforts is Purity''s acting police chief, Jo Thibodeau. More accustomed to dealing with rowdy tourists than homicide, Jo is puzzled by Maggie''s reluctance to share information--and by her odd circle of friends, who seem to be a step ahead of her at every turn. As Jo''s investigation collides with the Martini Club''s maneuvers, Maggie''s hunt for answers will force her to revisit a clandestine career that spanned the globe, from Bangkok to Istanbul, from London to Malta. The ghosts of her past have returned, but with the help of her friends--and the reluctant Jo Thibodeau--Maggie might just be able to save the life she''s built.

''Gripping . . . Both women deal with personal and family issues that reveal their humanity and lend credibility to this deft thriller.'' Publishers Weekly EVIL IS ON THE PROWL A severed hand is found in an alleyway in Boston''s Chinatown. Detective Jane Rizzoli discovers the rest of the body on a nearby rooftop, the head nearly severed. The only clue Jane has is two strands of hair, but it''s enough for Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles to make a startling connection. This violent attack has its roots in an unsolved murder-suicide case from nineteen years ago. The only witness, a beautiful martial arts master, has never dared to speak. And she may never get the chance... The 13th Rizzoli and Isles thriller by Tess Gerritsen is available to pre-order now. Coming 2022.

*RIZZOLI & ISLES: NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX!* ''Suspenseful and clever - nobody is who they seem to be in this shocking and fast-paced mystery.'' KARIN SLAUGHTER The nail-biting new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Have you met Rizzoli & Isles yet? Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles are investigating a gruesome and seemingly senseless murder. The victim was a respected, much loved nurse. But she was guarding a dangerous secret - a secret that may have lead the killer straight to her door. Meanwhile, Jane''s watchful mother Angela Rizzoli is convinced there''s something strange, perhaps even dangerous, about her new neighbours across the street. The problem is, no one is listening to her. Not even her own daughter. Ignored and frustrated, and with danger mounting in her neighbourhood, Angela may be forced to take action on her own . . . ''Outstanding - inventive, scary, and funny. Listen to Me is Gerritsen at her best!'' KATHY REICHS ''Gerritsen walks that high wire between humour and suspense without ever falling off as she plays a great game of bait and switch with her readers.'' LINWOOD BARCLAY ___ Readers are raving about Listen to Me! ''Tightly woven plot, sharp characters and some laugh out loud scenes. LOVED IT'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ''Twisting and turning with an intriguing plotline and maintaining a dark undercurrent throughout'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ''This may have been my first Gerritsen book but it won''t be the last!'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ __ Praise for Tess Gerritsen: ''Tess Gerritsen''s clever plotting and medical knowledge give her thrillers that extra edge. Expect a white-knuckle ride to very dark places.'' PAULA HAWKINS ''Suspense doesn''t get smarter than this.'' LEE CHILD ''Crime-writing at its nerve-tingling best.'' HARLAN COBEN ''Baby, you are going to be up all night.'' STEPHEN KING ''Gruesome, seductive and creepily credible.'' THE TIMES ''Hair-raising, nail-biting stuff.'' GUARDIAN Sunday Times bestseller, January 2024

Rizzoli & Isles return, in the nail-biting, new Sunday Times bestselling thriller from Tess Gerritsen. The murder of Sofia Suarez is both gruesome and seemingly senseless. Why would anyone target a respected nurse who was well-liked by her friends and her neighbours? As Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles investigate the baffling case, they discover that Sofia was guarding a dangerous secret -- a secret that may have led the killer straight to her door. Meanwhile, Jane''s watchful mother Angela Rizzoli is conducting an investigation of her own. She may be a grandmother, not a police detective, but she''s savvy enough to know there''s something very strange, perhaps even dangerous, about the new neighbours across the street. The problem is, no one believes her, not even her own daughter. Immersed in the hunt for Sofia''s killer, Jane and Maura are too busy to pay attention to Angela''s fears. With no one listening to her, and danger mounting in her neighbourhood, Angela just may be forced to take action on her own...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are back—and they’re going into the wild to find a killer. Die Again is the latest heart-pounding thriller in Tess Gerritsen’s bestselling series, the inspiration behind TNT’s hit show Rizzoli & Isles. When Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are summoned to a crime scene, they find a killing worthy of the most ferocious beast—right down to the claw marks on the corpse. But only the most sinister human hands could have left renowned big-game hunter and taxidermist Leon Gott gruesomely displayed like the once-proud animals whose heads adorn his walls. Did Gott unwittingly awaken a predator more dangerous than any he’s ever hunted? Maura fears that this isn’t the killer’s first slaughter, and that it won’t be the last. After linking the crime to a series of unsolved homicides in wilderness areas across the country, she wonders if the answers might actually be found in a remote corner of Africa. Six years earlier, a group of tourists on safari fell prey to a killer in their midst. Marooned deep in the bush of Botswana, with no means of communication and nothing but a rifle-toting guide for protection, the terrified tourists desperately hoped for rescue before their worst instincts—or the wild animals prowling in the shadows—could tear them apart. But the deadliest predator was already among them, and within a week, he walked away with the blood of all but one of them on his hands. Now this killer has chosen Boston as his new hunting ground, and Rizzoli and Isles must find a way to lure him out of the shadows and into a cage. Even if it means dangling the bait no hunter can resist: the one victim who got away. Advance praise for Die Again “With Die Again, Tess Gerritsen proves that she is still at the top of her game. I love this fantastically gripping story and can’t wait for more.”—Karin Slaughter “Tess Gerritsen always delivers, and this is Gerritsen at her dark, addictive best. What gives Die Again its peculiar charge is the idea, never far from the surface, that we humans are predatory animals like any other. Perhaps we should not be so surprised to find hunters among us.”—William Landay “Animal instinct turns savage—and man is an animal. A Rizzoli and Isles thriller is a guaranteed great read, but this time out Gerritsen really brings on the scary!”—Sandra Brown “Tess Gerritsen once again proves her masterful dominance in stories delving into the criminal mind and forensic sciences. Die Again left me breathless as Rizzoli and Isles investigate a horrific murder, one with ties to an unsolved massacre in years past. Here is a story both harrowing and as intellectually sharp as a dagger’s edge. I dare you to try to stop reading this once you’ve started.”—James Rollins “Harrowing! Seamlessly melding the gritty streets of Boston with the golden plains of Africa, Tess Gerritsen sets up a cunning predator who’s spent years perfecting his game. Now enter Rizzoli and Isles, two of Boston’s best determined to catch one of the world’s worst in a battle of wits where only the strong can survive. This is Tess Gerritsen at her finest!”—Lisa Gardner

''Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best'' HARLAN COBEN THE VICTIMS In Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles investigate a bizarre murder. A man has been found gutted and hanging in his home. When the remains of another victim are found, it is clear that this murderer has been at work for years, and not just in Boston. THE KILLER Five years ago, a group of travellers set off on an African safari. None of them was seen again âe\" apart from one woman who stumbled out of the bush weeks later, barely alive. The only woman to have seen the killerâe(tm)s face. THE SURVIVOR Has the âe~safari killerâe(tm) resurfaced in Boston? Jane is sent to Africa to find the one link between the two cases âe\" the only survivor. And convince her to face death once again...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, her stunning first thriller! Previously published as Peggy Sue Got Murdered “Gerritsen has a knack for creating great characters and mysterious plots that seem straightforward but also dazzle with complexity and twists.”—Associated Press A beautiful young woman’s corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak is an unidentified body that betrays no secrets—except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets, using a deadly drug to do his dirty work. The police are skeptical. The mayor won’t listen. One of the town’s most prominent citizens, with a missing daughter of his own, is also Kat’s chief suspect. As the death toll rises, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is close enough to touch her. “[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.”—Chicago Tribune

A RINGING PHONE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT NEVER BRINGS WELCOME NEWS... A ringing phone in the middle of the night shakes newlywed Sarah Fontaine awake. Expecting her husband''s call from London, she hears instead an unfamiliar voice. Nick O''Hara — from the U.S. State Department — is calling with devastating news: Sarah''s husband has died in a hotel fire...in Berlin. Convinced her husband is still alive, Sarah forces a confrontation with Nick that finds them crisscrossing Europe on a desperate search for Geoffrey. Trying to stay one heartbeat ahead of a dangerous killer, they become quarry in the clandestine world of international espionage, risking everything for answers that may prove fatal. Includes the bonus story In Their Footsteps.

Razor-edge suspense in this original eBook short story from “one of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today” (The Providence Journal) It should have been a night to remember, but Maura Isles can’t recall a thing. Maura is longing to ditch a ritzy cocktail party, along with her four-inch heels, when a handsome, charming stranger appears. But somewhere between sipping a fresh glass of champagne and waking up the next day on her sofa lies a black hole of forgotten time. As Boston’s medical examiner, Maura regularly teams up with police detective Jane Rizzoli on homicide investigations, and Jane’s latest case makes Maura’s blood run cold. A brutally murdered man has been found in a city park with Maura’s address tucked in his pocket. Maura IDs the victim as the charmer she met at the party. Her alarm turns to terror when she learns the murdered man was a predator with victims of his own. Fearing she may be guilty of a lethal crime she can’t recall, Maura races to recover the missing hours that hold the truth—and that hide a shocking secret. Includes an excerpt from Tess Gerritsen’s Rizzoli & Isles novel Last to Die.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Rizzoli & Isles now a series on TNT In the murky shadows of Boston’s Chinatown lies a severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed in black, her head nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair—not human—cling to her body. They are homicide cop Jane Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make the startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel. Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead. One woman connected to that massacre is still alive—a mysterious martial arts master who is now the target of someone, or something, deeply and relentlessly evil. Cracking a crime with bone-chilling echoes of an ancient Chinese legend, Rizzoli and Isles must outwit an unseen enemy with centuries of cunning—and a swift, avenging blade. Don’t miss Tess Gerritsen’s short story “Freaks” in the back of the eBook.

"Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned; meals remain untouched on dining room tables; cars are still parked in garages; the human occupants have vanished, seemingly into thin air. This is the unsettling place where Maura Isles finds herself trapped during a snowstorm. In Wyoming to attend a conference, she has joined a fellow pathologist and his friends on a drive to a backwoods ski lodge. When a wrong turn leaves their Jeep stranded in deep snow, they stumble down a private road into the valley of Kingdom Come, where they take shelter - and disappear. Days later, Jane Rizzoli, her husband Gabriel, and Father Daniel Brophy fly to Wyoming to search for their missing friend. But when police find a crashed vehicle with four badly burned bodies still inside - and Maura''s suitcase - authorities assume that the dead woman is Maura, and that her death was accidental. But was it?"

Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news that Maura''s charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, Wyoming, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow.

In this harrowing medical thriller filled with suspense and brilliantly crafted twists, Tess Gerritsen—the author of the acclaimed Rizzoli & Isles series that inspired the hit television show—delivers a pulse-pounding tale that “will make your heart skip a beat” (USA TODAY). For Dr. Abby DiMatteo, the long road to Boston’s Bayside Hospital has been anything but easy. Now, immersed in the grinding fatigue of her second year as a surgical resident, she’s elated when the hospital’s elite cardiac transplant team taps her as a potential recruit. But Abby soon makes an anguished, crucial decision that jeopardizes her entire career. A car crash victim’s healthy heart is ready to be harvested; it is immediately cross-matched to a wealthy private patient, Nina Voss. Abby hatches a bold plan to make sure that the transplant goes instead to a dying seventeen-year-old boy who is also a perfect match. The repercussions are powerful and swift and Abby is shaken but unrepentant—until she meets the frail, tormented Nina. Then a new heart for Nina Voss suddenly appears, her transplant is completed, and Abby makes a terrible discovery: Nina’s heart has not come through the proper channels. Defying Bayside Hospital’s demands for silence, Abby plunges into an investigation that reveals an intricate, and murderous, chain of deceptions. Every move Abby makes spawns a vicious backlash and, in a ship anchored in the stagnant waters of Boston Harbor, a final, grisly discovery lies waiting…

Tess Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism in this “intricate thriller” (People) as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak—before it destroys everything she loves. Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the small resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the distractions of the big city and the lingering memory of his father’s death. But with the first snap of winter comes shocking news that puts her practice on the line: a teenage boy under her care has committed an appalling act of violence. And as Claire and all of Tranquility soon discover, it is just the start of a chain of lethal outbursts among the town’s teenagers. As the rash of disturbing behavior grows, Claire uncovers a horrifying secret: this is not the first time it has happened. Twice a century, the children of Tranquility lash out with deadly violence. Claire suspects that there is a biological cause for the epidemic, and she fears that the placid Locust Lake may conceal an insidious danger. As she races to save Tranquility—and her son—from harm, Claire discovers an even greater threat: a shocking conspiracy to manipulate nature and cause innocents to slaughter.

Dr Toby Harper''s quiet night is disrupted when a severely ill man stumbles into ER. She suspects a viral brain infection. But shortly after trying to treat him, he disappears without a trace. When a second person is admitted with the same symptoms, she starts to trace the deadly infection backwards. And begins to suspect foul play.

Vietnamese edition of The Bone Garden. After her recent divorce, Julia Hamill moved into an old house, where she discovered after a day of hard digging, that it was probably built on a graveyard... Vietnamese translation by Phuong Tuyen. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

After the shocking discovery of a murder victim preserved as a mummy in the basement of Boston''s Crispin Museum, Maura Isles joins forces with detective Jane Rizzoli in an investigation that uncovers similar crimes.

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the hit TNT series—continue their bestselling crime-solving streak. • A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless thriller. A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes. Very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes hostages . . . one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli. Who is this violent, desperate soul, and what does she want? As the tense hours tick by, Maura joins forces with Jane’s husband, FBI agent Gabriel Dean, to track down the mysterious killer’s identity. When federal agents suddenly appear on the scene, Maura and Gabriel realize that they are dealing with a case that goes far deeper than just an ordinary hostage crisis. Only Jane, trapped with the armed madwoman, holds the key to the mystery. And only she can solve it–if she survives the night. This ebook edition contains a special preview of Tess Gerritsen’s I Know a Secret.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the hit TNT series—continue their bestselling crime-solving streak. “Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best.”—Harlan Coben Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms the startling fact: the mysterious doppelgänger is in fact her twin sister. Now an already bizarre homicide investigation becomes a disturbing excursion into a past full of dark secrets and twisted truths. It is a journey that leads Maura to the mother she never knew—an icy and cunning woman who gave Maura life . . . and who just might have a plan to take it away. This ebook edition contains a special preview of Tess Gerritsen’s I Know a Secret. Praise for Tess Gerritsen and Body Double “One of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.”—The Providence Journal “Masterful . . . Gerritsen rises to her best yet.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “The story zips along.”—Entertainment Weekly “Chilling suspense . . . leaves the reader breathless.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

Dr. Catherine Cordell, recovering from a brutal attack and hiding her fear behind a mask of professionalism, is the only one who can stop a psychotic killer known as "The Surgeon," due to his horrific methods of murder, before he kills again. Reissue.

Stolen Memories by Jayne Ann Krentz\Tess Gerritsen\Stella Cameron released on Jan 25, 2002 is available now for purchase.

M.J. Novak, a streetwise medical examiner, thinks she''s seen it all. Then a red-haired women named Peggy Sue mysteriously dies, the first victim of what may be an epidemic. Her only clue is a telephone number scrawled inside the matchbook in the girls'' lifeless hand. Could M.J. be at risk too?