I’m well aware the message this book was trying to put across was all to do with a “woman in a man’s world”, and I can feel for Rizzoli, it would be hard to be taken seriously in a homicide department in 2001 as a woman… But!!! It was not necessary for her to act as though every single man she encountered was an enemy, needing to be destroyed and put in his place. Rizzoli wasn’t the worst I have come across, but she still got on my nerves.

This always seems to happen to me, but I just can’t seem to get on with female detectives in these kinds of series.

While not a particularly twisty turny story, there are plenty of characters in this novel to keep you guessing on who the real killer is. That certainly made it a little hard for me to read because I have this slight fear of our insides and all descriptions of it, but I was too intrigued as to who the killer was, to put it down. There’s no escaping the terror in this one.Īs for the crime, this one is certainly unique… and gruesome! If you’re like me, and don’t like the thought of surgery or human anatomy, then this will certainly be a struggle to read as it contains many in-depth scenes where we’re walked through what’s happening on the inside of the body. The horror of each murder and plot reveal really grabs you by the throat and give you goosebumps. It felt so real, you completely lost yourselves in the characters worlds. I loved the setting for this, it felt so retro with its mention of floppy disks, pagers, and cassette tapes! This whole book was really well described and brought to life. This, on the other hand, had a great mix of action and downtime. Sometimes, these crime novels can burst with excitement for one second, and then fizzle out until the last few pages, or, completely the opposite of that, be total non-stop action, but feel really over the top and unrealistic. I found it difficult to put it down once I had picked it up! I loved the crime and mysterious criminal and I loved the pace of it all. This novel is certainly very captivating. Trigger warning: this book is heavily focused on sexual assault and rape. Now the man she believes she killed seems to be stalking her once again, and this time he knows exactly where to find her…

Two years ago she was subjected to a horrifying rape and shot her attacker dead. Closely linked to these killings is Catherine Cordell, a beautiful doctor with a mysterious past. His surgical skills lead police to suspect he is a physician – a physician who, instead of saving lives, takes them.īut as homicide detective Thomas Moore and his partner Jane Rizzoli begin their investigation, they make a startling discovery. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on them before finishing them off.

The surgeon tess