Body Double

Zusatztext Praise for Tess Gerritsen and Body Double   “One of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today.” — The Providence Journal   “Crime writing at its unputdownable! nerve-tingling best.” —Harlan Coben   “Masterful . . . Gerritsen rises to her best yet.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)   “The story zips along.” — Entertainment Weekly   “Chilling suspense . . . leaves the reader breathless.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer 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 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles-the inspiration for the hit TNT series-continue their bestselling crime-solving streak. "Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best."-Harlan Coben 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 doppelgänger is in fact her twin sister. Now an already bizarre homicide investigation becomes a disturbing excursion into a past full of dark secrets and twisted truths. It is a journey that leads Maura to the mother she never knew-an icy and cunning woman who gave Maura life . . . and who just might have a plan to take it away. Don't miss Tess Gerritsen's short story "John Doe" and a special excerpt from her novel Girl Missing in the back of the book. Praise for Tess Gerritsen and Body Double "One of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today."-The Providence Journal "Masterful . . . Gerritsen rises to her best yet."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The story zips along."-Entertainment Weekly "Chilling suspense . . . leaves the reader breathless."-The Philadelphia InquirerChapter One   Pesez le matin que vous n'irez peut-être pas jusqu'au soir,   Et au soir que vous n'irez peut-être pas jusqu'au matin.   Be aware every morning that you may not last the day,   And every evening that you may not last the night.   -Engraved plaque in the catacombs of Paris   A row of skulls glared from atop a wall of intricately stacked femurs and tibias. Though it was June, and she knew the sun was shining on the streets of Paris sixty feet above her, Dr. Maura Isles felt chilled as she walked down the dim passageway, its walls lined almost to the ceiling with human remains. She was familiar, even intimate, with death, and had confronted its face countless times on her autopsy table, but she was stunned by the scale of this display, by the sheer number of bones stored in this network of tunnels beneath the City of Light. The one-kilometer tour took her through only a small section of the catacombs. Off-limits to tourists were numerous side tunnels and bone-filled chambers, their dark mouths gaping seductively behind locked gates. Here were the remains of six million Parisians who had once felt the sun on their faces, who had hungered and thirsted and loved, who had felt the beating of their own hearts in their chests, the rush of air in and out of their lungs. They could never have imagined that one day their bones would be unearthed from their cemetery resting places, a...

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• Autori: Tess Gerritsen
• Editore: Ballantine
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2013
• EAN: 9780345547712
• ISBN: 978-0-345-54771-2
• Pagine: 512
• Dimensioni: 107 mm x 190 mm x 30 mm
• Serie: Rizzoli & Isles; Rizzoli & Isles Novels; Rizzoli & Isles
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli