Tess gerritsen body double pdf5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Unlike the other novels - with the exception of The Surgeon - this one seemed to focus more on Maura Isles than it did on Jane Rizzoli, even though the latter is supposed to be the main character. Secrets that would very much leave her dead. When DNA confirms it, Maura sets out to learn more about her twin sister, leading her to a family with dark secrets. It's the face she wakes up to every morning - Anna Jessop could be her twin sister. While Maura has never met Anna before, her face is nevertheless familiar. Slumped in a car, a bullet hole against her head, sits Anna Jessop. That is until, the victim is revealed to her. She doesn't know why people are acting so surprised to see her standing before them. Someone was shot and killed in front of her house. Even her friend Father Brophy seems taken aback by the sight of her. ![]() Her friends stare at her as if she's a ghost. Maura Isles returns from France to find a crime scene near her neighborhood. While it took me longer to read than I expected - mostly due to other reasons - the book was hard to put down the moment I picked it up (and if i wanted to do any writing, I had to force myself to put it down). She has the power to suck you into the story and not let go. With Body Double, being the fourth book in the series, I've come to accept the romantic aspect. The Sinner nearly killed me because of the triangle that was introduced and Rizzoli's defiance against falling in love with Agent Dean. With The Apprentice, my gut told me that I was reading the chick lit version a mystery - but I ignored the romance and stuck to the plot (which made it enjoyable). The romantic aspect of the story nearly killed it for me - echoing Harlequin romance. When I first picked up The Surgeon - mostly because Amazon recommended that I should read it - I didn't know if I could make it through. an icy and cunning woman who could be responsible for giving Maura life–and who just may have a plan to take it away. 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. But perhaps more frightening, an unknown murderer 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 doppelgänger 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 than 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 theNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe SurgeonandThe Sinner.
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