Last to Die - A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

Zusatztext “One of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.”— The Providence Journal   “[Tess] Gerritsen has a knack for creating great characters and mysterious plots that seem straightforward but also dazzle with complexity and twists.”—Associated Press   “An exciting and puzzling mystery . . . [ Last to Die ] is a key book in a series that keeps getting better and better.”—Bookreporter   “Gerritsen skillfully heightens the tension right up to the suspenseful ending.”— Booklist Informationen zum Autor New York Times  bestselling author  Tess Gerritsen  earned international acclaim for her first novel of suspense,  Harvest . She introduced detective Jane Rizzoli in  The Surgeon  (2001) and Dr. Maura Isles in  The Apprentice  (2002) and has gone on to write numerous other titles in the celebrated Rizzoli & Isles series, including  The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die,  and  Die Again.  Her latest novel is the standalone thriller  Playing with Fire.  A physician, Tess Gerritsen lives in Maine. Klappentext Rizzoli & Isles • Hit series on TNT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today."-The Providence Journal For the second time in his short life, fourteen-year-old Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Orphaned once more when his foster family is murdered, the traumatized teenager has nowhere to turn-until the Boston PD puts Detective Jane Rizzoli on the case. Jane spirits Teddy to the exclusive Evensong boarding school, a sanctuary where young victims of violent crime learn vital skills of survival. But even behind locked gates, Jane fears that Evensong's benefactors aren't the only ones watching. And when she learns of two other students whose pasts bear a shocking resemblance to Teddy's, it becomes chillingly clear that a circling predator has more than one victim in mind. Joining forces with medical examiner Maura Isles, Jane races to stop an obsessed killer's twisted quest-before an unspeakable secret dooms the children's fate.Don't miss Tess Gerritsen's short story "John Doe," and a sneak peek of her novel, Girl Missing, in the back of the book. "[Tess] Gerritsen has a knack for creating great characters and mysterious plots that seem straightforward but also dazzle with complexity and twists."-Associated Press "An exciting and puzzling mystery . . . [Last to Die] is a key book in a series that keeps getting better and better."-Bookreporter "Gerritsen skillfully heightens the tension right up to the suspenseful ending."-Booklist 9780345515636|excerpt Gerritsen / THE LAST TO DIE We called him Icarus. It was not his real name, of course. My childhood on the farm taught me that you must never give a name to an animal marked for slaughter. Instead you referred to it as Pig Number One or Pig Number Two, and you always avoided looking it in the eye, to shield yourself from any glimpse of self-­awareness or personality or affection. When a beast trusts you, it takes far more resolve to slit its throat. We had no such issue with Icarus, who neither trusted us nor had any inkling of who we were. But we knew a great deal about him. We knew that he lived behind high walls in a hilltop villa on the outskirts of Rome. That he and his wife, Lucia, had two sons, ages eight and ten. That despite his immense wealth, he had simple tastes in food, and a favorite local restaurant, La Nonna, at which he dined almost every Thursday. And that he was a monster. Which was the reason we came to be in Italy that summer. The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such trivial doctrines as law or national borders. Monsters, after all, do not play by the rules, so neither can we. Not if we hope to defeat them. But when you abandon ...

Product details

• Authors: Tess Gerritsen
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2013
• EAN: 9780345515520
• ISBN: 978-0-345-51552-0
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 191 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Rizzoli & Isles; Rizzoli & Isles Novels; Rizzoli & Isles
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature