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Her lucid writing, lively dialogue, and attention to detail brought characters such as emergency room physician Catherine Cordell and homicide detective Thomas Moore vividly to life. She took me for an informative, believable, empathic, and non-psychobabble journey into the mind of the book's serial killer.

I felt warmly when reading her sensitive portrayal of a developing love between two of the characters--a beautiful piece of writing. With the exception of this portion of the book, the characters were too serious and intense; I would have appreciated more lighter interludes, perhaps even a dash of humor.

I appreciated her deft oscillation beween gradually turning up the suspense of her well-constructed plot and gradually disclosing the personalities of the characters.

I experienced a satisfying sense of closure at the end of this believable and absorbing story of evil and its defeat, of failure and ultimate success, and of the vicissitudes and satisfactions of love.

Tess Gerritsen, I rise out of my seat to applaud your virtuoso performance and hereby add to your M.D. degree a doctorate in detective and thriller writing.

Move over Robin Cook!
Published in 1996, Tess Gerritsen's first medical/criminal suspense/thriller novel, Harvest, showed that she was going to give Robin Cook a run for his money in that particular writing genre. With the 2001 publication of The Surgeon, her 5th novel, she has pushed him aside to become the more exciting writer.

Dr. Catherine Cordell is a young, attractive, trauma surgeon who harbors a dark secret from her past in Savannah, Georgia - her rape and near mutilation and murder and then her successful killing of her attacker. Two years later, similar attacks/murders occur around her in Boston, Massachusetts. She is asked to assist the police in their investigation and then finds that she is the real object of the killer's obsession.

As a surgeon myself, I especially enjoy the detail and accuracy of the medical stuff about which Dr. Gerritsen, a former internist, writes. Her writing skills have developed with each novel, and her character development is now quite good, especially with Dr. Cordell, her surgical partner Peter Falco, the two lead detectives Thomas Moore and Jane Rizzoli, and the killer. She knows how to build to a climax, and I could not put the book down after I got halfway through. Finally, she can just flat out write a very chilling scary thriller!

A final caution - this book is not for the sqeamish or younger audience due to the graphic descriptions of female mutilation.

A Very Worthwhile Read-Exciting Book!
This was the first I have read of Gerritsen's books, and it was a good one!

Catherine Cordell is a surgeon who is highly skilled in repairing broken people's bodies.

There have been some horrendous murders taking place in the city of Boston. This killer would tear women apart by carving out their female organs, stabbing them with a scalpel, and leaving some dead, and others barely alive at the scene.

With each repeated act of great violence, the monster comes closer and closer to capturing Cordell, and hurting her. The thing one, he did hurt Catherine once, and she managed to escape. But this time, she may not be so lucky. She's in this monster's obsessions all the time.