The woman breaks loose, and a hostage situation develops. When pregnant detective Jane Rizzoli's water breaks while she's in court, she ends up going to the same hospital. Forcibly restrained and sent to the hospital, the young woman continues fighting against her restraints as the authorities try to determine who she is. As she enters, one of the bodies rises up and begins getting violent. Pathologist Maura Isles is doing her routine work at the morgue when she hears a strange sound coming from the cooler where bodies are stored prior to dissection. While not completely perfect, this book is definitely at the top of my Gerritsen chart. I finished Vanish in a day, mainly because of the nearly flawless combination of plot, prose, and character. While Gerritsen has always been able to keep me reading, I've been able to put the book down to do other things occasionally. Tess Gerritsen just keeps churning out the extremely readable Jane Rizzoli/Maura Isles series of thrillers, and Vanish is her best one yet. 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.Click here to read reviewer Angela McQuay's take on Vanish. 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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