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Tess Gerritsen
Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D.
While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was published. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay, "Adrift", which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.
Now retired from medicine, she writes full time. She lives in Maine.
Full Series List in Order
The Martini Club
1 - The Spy Coast (Nov-2023)2 - The Summer Guests (Mar-2025)
Maura Isles and Jane Rizzoli
1 - The Surgeon (Sep-2001)2 - The Apprentice (Aug-2002)
3 - The Sinner (Aug-2003)
4 - Body Double (Aug-2004)
5 - Vanish (Aug-2005)
6 - The Mephisto Club (Sep-2006)
7 - The Keepsake // Keeping the Dead (Sep-2008)
8 - Ice Cold // The Killing Place (Jul-2010)
8.5 - Freaks (Jun-2011)
9 - The Silent Girl (Jul-2011)
9.5 - John Doe (Jul-2012)
10 - Last to Die (Sep-2012)
11 - Die Again (Jan-2015)
12 - I Know a Secret (Aug-2017)
13 - Listen To Me (Jul-2022)
Tavistock Family
1 - In Their Footsteps (Jun-1994)2 - Thief of Hearts (Jun-1995)
Multi-Author Series List
Her Protector
Keeper of the Bride (Feb-1996)Book List in Order: 34 titles
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Call After Midnight
- Nov-1987
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Sarah was a hunted woman Alone in Europe, on the trail of her missing husband, Sarah Fontaine had walked straight into a nest of spies, counterspies and cold-blooded assassins. They would stop at nothing to find the man she'd known as Geoffrey...
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Under the Knife
- Apr-1990
- / Romantic Suspense
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Malpractice ... or murder? Dr. Kate Chesne knew that no surgery was ever routine, but when a colleague and friend perished on the operating table during a simple gallbladder extraction, her very profession was threatened. Had she misread an EKG .....
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Never Say Die
- Mar-1992
- / Romantic Suspense
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Friend...or foe? Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland was taking a trip through hell. Saigon was teeming, hot and dangerous. But her search for the truth about that fateful flig...
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Whistleblower
- Sep-1992
- / Romantic Suspense
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He emerged from the mist . . . . . right in front of Cathy Weaver's car--running from would-be killers who were rapidly closing in. One look at his fog-shrouded form told Cathy this sexy stranger needed her help. Victor Holland's story sounde...
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Presumed Guilty
- Aug-1993
- / Romantic Suspense
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Someone was sleeping in her bed.... But he wasn't really sleeping. He was dead. Miranda Wood hoped it was just a bad dream, but the man had been stabbed with her knife, in her house. And worst of all, he wasn't a stranger. So the nig...
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In Their Footsteps
- Jun-1994
- / Romantic Suspense
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Old sins cast long shadows.... Paris, the City of Lights, illuminated a twenty-year-old scandal that Beryl Tavistock's reserved British family had long kept in the dark. Instantly, she was caught in a whirlwind of events that would bring the scand...
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Peggy Sue Got Murdered // Girl Missing
- Aug-1994
- / Romantic Suspense
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IF YOU KNEW PEGGY SUE... M.J. Novak, a wisecracking, streetwise medical examiner, thinks she's seen it all. Then a red-haired woman named Peggy Sue mysteriously dies--the first victim of what may be an epidemic. M.J.'s only clue is a matchbook cle...
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Thief of Hearts
- Jun-1995
- / Romantic Suspense
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He was a gentleman. . . In tuxedo and bow tie, Jordan Tavistock was the unlikeliest burglar. But when a chum asked him to steal back some X-rated love letters from her ex-lover's estate, he had no choice but to oblige. He never expected to get cau...
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Keeper of the Bride
- Feb-1996
- / Romantic Suspense
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She was a beautiful bride Or she would have been, had the groom bothered to show up. And then, at the exact moment Nina Cormier would have said 'I do,' the empty church exploded -- sending a loud message that someone was after the bride-to...
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Life Support
- Sep-1997
- / Medical Thriller
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The overnight ER rotation at Springer Hospital suits Dr. Toby Harper just fine--until its calm is shattered by a man Toby admits one quiet night. Delirious and in critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain, he barely responds to ...
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Bloodstream
- Aug-1998
- / Medical Thriller
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Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the 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 d...
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The Surgeon
- Sep-2001
- / Medical Thriller
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He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, about to awake to a living nightmare. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers to n...
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The Apprentice
- Aug-2002
- / Medical Thriller
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It is a boiling hot summer in Boston. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized--a sadistic demand that ends in death. The pattern suggests one man: serial killer ...
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The Sinner
- Aug-2003
- / Medical Thriller
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Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns -- one dead, one critically injured -- victims...
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Body Double
- Aug-2004
- / Medical Thriller
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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 doppelganger is in fact her twin sister. Now an already bi...
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The Mephisto Club
- Sep-2006
- / Medical Thriller
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PECCAVI The Latin phrase is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman's brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It's a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to the s...
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The Bone Garden
- Sep-2007
- / Suspense
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Unknown bones, untold secrets, and unsolved crimes from the distant past cast ominous shadows on the present in the dazzling new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discove...
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The Keepsake // Keeping the Dead
- Sep-2008
- / Medical Thriller
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For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum. Dubbed "Madam X," the recently rediscovered mummy is, to all appearances, an ancient Egyptian artifact. But medical examiner Maura Is...
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Ice Cold // The Killing Place
- Jul-2010
- / Medical Thriller
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A spur-of-the-moment ski trip becomes a bone-chilling nightmare when a wrong turn leaves Boston medical examiner Maura Isles marooned -- far from home and help -- in the snowbound Wyoming mountains. Seeking shelter from the cold, she and her travelin...
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The Silent Girl
- Jul-2011
- / Medical Thriller
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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 severed from her body. Two strands of silver hair -- not human --...
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Last to Die
- Sep-2012
- / Medical Thriller
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For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Two years ago, he barely escaped when his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at fourteen, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family's ma...
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Playing with Fire
- Nov-2015
- / Thriller
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In a shadowy antiques shop in Rome, violinist Julia Ansdell happens upon a curious piece of music -- the Incendio waltz -- and is immediately entranced by its unusual composition. Full of passion, torment, and chilling beauty, and seemingly unknown t...
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I Know a Secret
- Aug-2017
- / Mystery
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Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles -- the inspiration for the smash hit TNT series -- continue their bestselling crime-solving streak, as they pursue a shadowy psychopath keeping secrets and taking lives. Two separate homicides, at different locations, ...
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The Shape of Night
- Oct-2019
- / Horror
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A woman trying to outrun her past is drawn to a coastal village in Maine -- and to a string of unsolved murders -- in this novel of romance and psychological suspense from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. After an unspeakable trag...
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Listen To Me
- Jul-2022
- / Police Procedural
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Rizzoli & Isles are back! From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, this “shocking and fast-paced” (Karin Slaughter) thriller has Jane and Maura investigating a brutal murder with dire imp...
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The Spy Coast
- Nov-2023
- / Thriller
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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 ...
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The Summer Guests
- Mar-2025
- / Thriller
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Teaser Blurb… The second novel in the Martini Club series, The Summer Guests is an exhilarating and gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Prepare to meet THE SUMMER GUESTS Just don’t trust any of them . . ....
Award-Winning Books by Tess Gerritsen
2004 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Mystery
Gravity
1999 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Suspense Novel
Never Say Die
1993 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Harlequin Intrigue
The Surgeon
2001 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Suspense Novel
2002 Rita Award -- Romantic Suspense
Vanish
2005 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Suspense Novel
2006 Nero Wolfe Award -- Novel