Tess Gerritsen has 48 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 26 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 122 ratings. The most-rated is I Know a Secret.
La Reine des morts
Summary
Que venait faire sœur Camille dans la chapelle désaffectée de l'abbaye de Graystones, au milieu de la nuit ? Sur la pierre glacée, aux côtés de son corps sans vie, gît une autre nonne à l'agonie : une sanglante tragédie peu familière en ces lieux consacrés... Faut-il y voir la main d'un adorateur du Malin ? Ou bien chercher plus profondément dans le passé des victimes ? Celui de la novice, Camille, semble en effet receler plus d'un secret... Dépêchées sur place, l'inspecteur Jane Rizzoli et celle que la police de Boston a surnommée " La Reine des Morts ", la légiste Maura Isles, contemplent le carnage. L'une et l'autre se plongent à corps perdu dans l'enquête. Et quand apparaît dans le tableau une morte sans visage, une piste sulfureuse aux parfums de l'Inde lointaine, cette affaire de femmes prend vite une tournure bien peu catholique...
©2007 Presses de la Cité. traduit par Denis Bouchain e Dominique Haas (P)2019 Audible Studios
The Mephisto Club
Summary
Evil exists. Evil walks the streets. And evil has spawned a diabolical new disciple in this white-knuckle thriller from New York Times best-selling author Tess Gerritsen. PECCAVI. The Latin word 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 controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O'Donnell, Jane's professional nemesis and a member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club. On top of Beacon Hill, the club's acolytes devote themselves to the analysis of evil: Can it be explained by science? Does it have a physical presence? Do demons walk the earth? Drawing on a wealth of dark historical data and mysterious religious symbolism, the Mephisto scholars aim to prove a startling theory: that Satan himself exists among us. With the grisly appearance of a corpse on their doorstep, it's clear that someone, or something, is indeed prowling the city. The members of the club begin to fear the very subject of their study. Could this maniacal killer be one of their own, or have they inadvertently summoned an evil entity from the darkness? Delving deep into the most baffling and unusual case of their careers, Maura and Jane embark on a terrifying journey to the very heart of evil, where they encounter a malevolent foe more dangerous than any they have ever faced...one whose work is only just beginning.
©2006 Tess Gerritsen (P)2006 Random House, Inc.
The Apprentice
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Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles - the inspiration for the hit TNT series - continue their crime-solving streak. The best-selling author of The Surgeon returns - and so does that chilling novel’s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent...and all-too-deadly. It is a boiling hot Boston summer. 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 abduction and death. The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city’s streets. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. At least that’s what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks. Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her - literally and figuratively - she is determined to finally end Hoyt’s awful influence...even if it means receiving more resistance from her all-male homicide squad. But Rizzoli isn’t counting on the US government’s sudden interest. Or on meeting Special Agent Gabriel Dean, who knows more than he will tell. Most of all, she isn’t counting on becoming a target herself, once Hoyt is suddenly free, joining his mysterious blood brother in a vicious vendetta.... Filled with superbly created characters - and the medical and police procedural details that are her trademark - The Apprentice is Tess Gerritsen at her brilliant best. Set in a stunning world where evil is easy to learn and hard to end, this is a thriller by a master who could teach other authors a thing or two.
©2003 Tess Gerritsen (P)2003 Random House Inc., Random House Audio, a Division of Random House Inc.
The Bone Garden
Summary
Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil - human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, medical student Norris Marshall has joined the ranks of local "resurrectionists" ? those who plunder graveyards and harvest the dead for sale on the black market. But when a distinguished doctor is found murdered and mutilated on university grounds, Norris finds that trafficking in the illicit cadaver trade has made him a prime suspect. With unflagging suspense and pitch-perfect period detail, The Bone Garden deftly traces the dark mystery at its heart across time and place to a finale as ingeniously conceived as it is shocking.
©2007 Tess Gerritsen (P)2007 Random House, Inc.
Ice Cold
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In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles joins a group of friends on a spur-of-the-moment ski trip. But when their SUV stalls on a snow-choked mountain road, they’re stranded - with no help in sight. As night falls, the group seeks refuge from the blizzard in the remote village of Kingdom Come, where 12 eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Something terrible has happened in Kingdom Come: Meals sit untouched on tables, cars are still parked in garages. The town’s previous residents seem to have vanished into thin air, but footprints in the snow betray the presence of someone who still lurks in the cold darkness — someone who is watching Maura and her friends. Days later, 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, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow. As horrifying revelations come to light, Jane closes in on an enemy both powerful and merciless — and the chilling truth about Maura’s fate.
©2010 Tess Gerritsen (P)2010 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Last to Die
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While visiting Julian “Rat” Perkins, the 16-year-old boy with whom she survived a terrible ordeal, Maura Isles is startled to learn that all the students at Evensong are survivors of violence. Isolated in the Maine wilderness, the boarding school teaches its students the science and investigative skills needed for a high-level crime fighting career. Meanwhile in Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli investigates the murder of Teddy Clock’s foster family, a slaughter that only Teddy survived. When Teddy is also threatened, Rizzoli hides him at Evensong. But she and Maura discover that even the secluded school cannot shut out a gathering threat, and that the key to the murders is within its gates.
©2012 Tess Gerritsen (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Le Martyre des innocents
Summary
Deux meurtres. Deux macabres mises en scène. Un seul tueur ? Région de Boston, pendant les fêtes de fin d'année. Une productrice de films d'horreur est retrouvée morte dans son appartement, les yeux arrachés et posés dans sa paume. Quelques jours plus tard, un corps, la poitrine percée de trois flèches, est découvert sur une jetée. Les deux crimes, qui semblent s'inspirer du martyrologe chrétien, sont-ils liés ? L'inspectrice Jane Rizzoli et la légiste Maura Isles mènent l'enquête. De nouveau, elles devront composer avec Amalthea Lank, la tueuse en série qui n'est autre que la mère biologique de Maura. Rongée par un cancer au pénitencier où elle purge sa peine, celle-ci tente en effet de manipuler une dernière fois sa fille, insinuant qu'elle détient un secret en lien avec les deux affaires...
©2019 Presses de la Cité. Traduit par Nathalie Serval (P)2019 Audible Studios
The Mephisto Club
Summary
Evil exists. Evil walks the streets. And evil has spawned a diabolical new disciple in this white-knuckle thriller from New York Times best-selling author Tess Gerritsen. Pececcavi: The Latin word 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 controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O'Donnell-Jane's professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club. On top of Beacon Hill, the club's acolytes devote themselves to the analysis of evil: Can it be explained by science? Does it have a physical presence? Do demons walk the Earth? Drawing on a wealth of dark historical data and mysterious religious symbolism, the Mephisto scholars aim to prove a startling theory: that Satan himself exists among us. With the grisly appearance of a corpse on their doorstep, it's clear that someone - or something - is indeed prowling the city. The members of the club begin to fear the very subject of their study. Could this maniacal killer be one of their own - or have they inadvertently summoned an evil entity from the darkness? Delving deep into the most baffling and unusual case of their careers, Maura and Jane embark on a terrifying journey to the very heart of evil, where they encounter a malevolent foe more dangerous than any they have ever faced... one whose work is only just beginning.
©2006 Tess Gerritsen (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Keeper of the Bride
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After Nina Cormier was jilted at the altar, the empty church exploded. Then someone tried to run Nina off the road, and she realized someone wanted her dead--but who? That's what Detective Sam Navarro needs to find out...fast. With a nightmare unfolding around them, Sam and Nina decipher the stunning truth. Now they're at the mercy of a brilliant madman who plays for keeps.
©1996 Tess Gerritsen (P)2009 Audible, Inc.
Girl Missing
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THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY.She's young. She's beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Cat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a notebook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. THE NEXT BODY IS A WARNING.When a second victim is discovered, Cat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the city streets: a shadowy madman without mercy or apparent motive. The police are sceptical. The mayor won't listen. And Cat's chief suspect is one of the city's most prominent citizens. THE FINAL BODY...MIGHT BE HERS.With the death toll rising, Cat races to expose a deadly conspiracy and the brutal killer at its heart - a killer who will stalk her from the dangerous streets of the inner city to the corridors of power. Because he's closer than she ever dreamt. And every move she makes could be her very last.
©2009 Tess Gerritsen (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
The Keepsake
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For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum. Now its sudden rediscovery by museum staff is both a major coup and an attention-grabbing mystery. Dubbed "Madam X," the mummy - to all appearances, an ancient Egyptian artifact - seems a ghoulish godsend for the financially struggling institution. But medical examiner Maura Isles soon discovers a macabre message hidden within the corpse - horrifying proof that this "centuries-old" relic is instead a modern-day murder victim. To Maura and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, the forensic evidence is unmistakable, its implications terrifying. And when the grisly remains of yet another woman are found in the hidden recesses of the museum, it becomes chillingly clear that a maniac is at large - and is now taunting them. Archaeologist Josephine Pulcillo's blood runs cold when the killer's cryptic missives are discovered, and her darkest dread becomes real when the carefully preserved corpse of yet a third victim is left in her car like a gruesome offering - or perhaps a ghastly promise of what's to come. The twisted killer's familiarity with post-mortem rituals suggests to Maura and Jane that he may have scientific expertise in common with Josephine. Only Josephine knows that her stalker shares a knowledge even more personally terrifying: details of a dark secret she had thought forever buried. Now Maura must summon her own dusty knowledge of ancient death traditions to unravel his twisted endgame. And when Josephine vanishes, Maura and Jane have precious little time to derail the Archaeology Killer before he adds another chilling piece to his monstrous collection.
©2008 Tess Gerritsen (P)2008 Random House
Kirurgen
Summary
Han vet exakt var det gör ont... Han smyger in i deras hem om natten och går ljudlöst in i sovrum där kvinnor sover, omedvetna om den fasa de snart kommer att få uppleva. Mördarens utstuderade tillvägagångssätt antyder att han är inte bara groteskt perverterad utan också läkare, och det får såväl Bostons tidningar som allmänheten att döpa honom till "Kirurgen". Men när mordutredarna Thomas Moore och Jane Rizzoli inleder sina efterforskningar upptäcker de något överrumplande. För synbarligen finns ett starkt samband mellan morden och Catherine Cordell, en attraktiv läkare med ett mystiskt förflutet. För två år sedan utsattes hon för en brutal våldtäkt och var nära att dö, men lyckades skjuta ihjäl sin angripare. Ändå verkar det som om mannen hon dödade på nytt är ute efter henne. Och den här gången tycks han veta exakt var han kan hitta henne...
©2017 Jentas (P)2017 Jentas
Never Say Die
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Twenty years after her father's plane crashes in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland is finally tracking his last moves. She recognizes the danger, but her search for the truth is the only thing that matters. Willy knows she can't proceed without the help of ex-army officer Guy Barnard, who knows the mysterious land well. But in a place where truth has many faces, she suspects even Guy has hidden motives. What she couldn't have prepared for are the shocking secrets and the undeniable attraction.
©1992 Tess Gerritsen (P)2015 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Den tysta flickan
Summary
Ondskan är på jakt. I de mörka skuggorna i en av Chinatowns gränder i Boston hittas en hand. På taket till det igenbommade huset intill ligger en kvinnas avhuggna huvud. Och på hennes kropp hittas två silvervita hårstrån som inte är mänskliga. De är kriminalinspektör Jane Rizzolis enda ledtrådar, men de räcker för att hon och rättsläkaren doktor Maura Isles ska göra en kuslig upptäck: att det brutala mordet har ett makabert förspel. För nitton år sedan slutade en ohygglig massaker på en kinesrestaurang med att fem människor dog. Av dem som stod massakerns offer nära lever bara en enda kvinna en outgrundlig kampsportmästare som har en hemlighet hon inte vågar avslöja. En hemlighet som lever och andas i stadens skuggor. En hemlighet som kanske inte ens är mänsklig.
©2020 Jentas (P)2020 Jentas
Syndaren
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Innanför kapellets väggar, nu nedfläckade av blod, ligger två nunnor - en död, en allvarligt skadad - båda offer för ett skoningslöst, brutalt övergrepp. Det barbariska brottet verkar sakna motiv, och de äldre nunnorna i klostret är inte till mycket hjälp i polisutredningen. Men rättsläkaren Maura Isles obduktion av den döda kvinnan ger ett chockerande resultat: Den 20-åriga syster Camille födde ett barn innan hon mördades. Det makabra fallet tar en ny, häpnadsväckande vändning när en annan kvinna hittas mördad i en övergiven byggnad, med kroppen lemlästad till oigenkännlighet. Tilsammans med kriminalassistent Jane Rizzoli försöker Maura Isles lösa de grymma morden. Vem är far till unga Camilles barn? Kommer syster Ursula att överleva och minnas överfallet? Vem är den stympade kvinnan? Isles och Rizzoli är snart en hänsynslös galning på spåret.
©2018 Jentas (P)2018 Jentas
Souvenirer
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Mumien blir ett fall för kriminalinspektör Jane Rizzoli från mordroteln. Och när sedan ännu en ohyggligt bevarad rest av en mördad kvinna hittas undangömd i museets källare står det klart att en seriemördare går lös en mördare som vill bevara sina offer som souvenirer med hjälp av forntida konserveringstekniker. Medan Rizzoli och Isles metodiskt försöker spåra mördaren är det bara en enda människa som anar sanningen, egyptologen Josephine Pulcillo vid Crispinmuseet. Men inte ens insikten om att det tycks vara hon som är utsedd till mördarens nästa offer kan förmå henne att avslöja de mörka hemligheter i sitt eget förflutna som är det enda som skulle kunna identifiera monstret som pressen har döpt till Arkeologmördaren.
©2019 Jentas (P)2019 Jentas
Thief of Hearts
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Reformed cat burglar Clea Rice has witnessed enough crimes to put her on the straight and narrow. But little does she suspect that her search for justice will land her in the arms of wealthy English gentleman Jordan Tavistock. As their attraction grows, so does the danger. Now their biggest concern isn't whether a proper gentleman and a cat burglar can find happiness....It's whether they'll survive long enough to find out.
©2008 Tess Gerritsen (P)2008 Audible, Inc.
The Sinner
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Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered in the early morning hours at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the sanctuary walls of the cloistered convent, now stained with blood, lie two nuns: one dead, one critically injured ? victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, and the elderly nuns in residence can offer little help in the police investigation. But medical examiner Maura Isles' autopsy of the dead woman yields a shocking surprise: twenty-year-old Sister Camille, the order's sole novice, gave birth before she was murdered. Then the disturbing case takes a stunning new turn when another woman is found murdered in an abandoned building, her body mutilated beyond recognition. Together, Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli uncover an ancient horror that connects these terrible slaughters. As long-buried secrets come to light, Maura Isles finds herself drawn inexorably toward the heart of an investigation that strikes closer and closer to home ? and toward a dawning revelation about the killer's identity too shattering to consider.
©2003 Tess Gerritsen (P)2003 Random House Inc., Random House Audio, a Division of Random House Inc.
Kall som is
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Han väntar. Han iakttar. De försvinner. Rättsläkaren Maura Isles från Boston har rest till Wyoming för att delta i en konferens för patologer. Hon träffar en bekant från studentåren som föreslår att hon följer med på en skidutflykt med några vänner och hon tackar ja. Men när deras bil kör fast på en bergsväg i snöstormen blir de strandsatta utan möjlighet att tillkalla hjälp. Natten faller och de söker sin tillflykt till den undangömda lilla byn Kingdom Come, där tolv kusligt identiska hus står mörka och övergivna. Någonting fruktansvärt har hänt i Kingdom Come. Måltider står orörda på borden, bilarna står kvar i garagen. Byns invånare tycks ha försvunnit i tomma intet, men fotspår i snön avslöjar att någon finns kvar. Någon som döljer sig i det iskalla mörkret - och iakttar Maura och hennes vänner. Flera dagar senare nås kriminalinspektör Jane Rizzoli i Boston av den hemska nyheten att Mauras förkolnade kropp har hittats i en bergsravin. Chockad och fylld av sorg beslutar sig Jane för att ta reda på vad som hänt hennes vän. Utredningen slungar Jane rätt in i Kingdom Comes makabra historia - och leder henne till att upptäcka det ohyggliga som ligger begravt under snön.
©2020 Jentas (P)2020 Jentas
Body Double
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Boston medical examiner Dr. 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 best-selling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner. Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. 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. But never before has her blood run cold, and never has the grim expression "dead ringer" rung so terrifyingly true. Because never before has the lifeless body on the medical examiner's table been her own. 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. Even more chilling is the discovery that they share the same birth date and blood type. For the stunned Maura, an only child, there can be just one explanation. 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. Searching for answers, Maura is drawn to a seaside town in Maine where other horrifying surprises await. But perhaps more frightening, an unknown murderer is at large on a cross-country killing spree. 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...an icy and cunning woman who could be responsible for giving Maura life and who just may have a plan to take it away.
©2004 Tess Gerritsen (P)2004 Random House Audio, a Division of Random House, Inc.