The Keepsake

Zusatztext “A frighteningly effective stunner from one of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.”— Providence Journal “Disturbing and intensely mesmerizing . . . It’s shudder inducing!”— Romantic Times “An intricate plot that will keep readers guessing.”— Publishers Weekly “Wraps readers in a web of evil that is hard to shake . . . Once you pick up this novel! there’s a good chance you won’t be good for much else till you’ve reached its satisfying conclusion.”— Nashville Scene “ The Keepsake reads at a reckless pace! drawing the reader into a twisted world of well-preserved vengeance.”— Madison County Times “Dark! creepy and a great read.”— Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star “ The Keepsake is a superb suspense novel! with twists galore . . . a beautifully constructed suspense novel with a great story.”— Toronto Globe and Mail 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, most recently 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 Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles-the inspiration for the hit TNT series-continue their bestselling crime-solving streak. 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 Isles discovers a macabre message hidden within the corpse-horrifying proof that this "centuries-old" relic is instead a modern-day murder victim. When the grisly remains of two other women are found, it becomes clear to Maura and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli that a maniac is at large. Now Maura and Jane must unravel a murderer's twisted endgame before the Archaeology Killer adds another chilling artifact to his monstrous collection. Leseprobe Chapter One He is coming for me. I feel it in my bones. I sniff it in the air, as recognizable as the scent of hot sand and savory spices and the sweat of a hundred men toiling in the sun. These are the smells of Egypt’s western desert, and they are still vivid to me, although that country is nearly half a globe away from the dark bedroom where I now lie. Fifteen years have passed since I walked that desert, but when I close my eyes, in an instant I am there again, standing at the edge of the tent camp, looking toward the Libyan border and the sunset. The wind moaned like a woman when it swept down the wadi. I still hear the thuds of pickaxes and the scrape of shovels, can picture the army of Egyptian diggers, busy as ants as they swarmed the excavation site, hauling their gufa baskets filled with soil. It seemed to me then, when I stood in that desert fifteen years ago, as if I were an actress in a film about someone else’s adventure. Not mine. Certainly it was not an adventure that a quiet girl from Indio, California, ever expected to live. The lights of a passing car glimmer through my closed eyelids. When I open my eyes, Egypt vanishes. No longer am I standing in the desert gazing at a sky smeared by sunset the color of bruises. Instead I am once again half a world away, lying in my dark San Diego bedroom. I climb out of bed and walk barefoot to the window to look out at the street. It is a tired neighborhood of stucco tract homes built in the 1950s, before the American dream me...

Product details

• Authors: Tess Gerritsen
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.03.2016
• EAN: 9781101887417
• ISBN: 978-1-101-88741-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 190 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Rizzoli & Isles; Rizzoli & Isles
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage