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- ISBN: 9780739350065 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0739350064 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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remote - Publisher: [Santa Ana, Calif.] : Books on Tape, 2004.
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| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 11:04:13. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kathe Mazur. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 159127 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Psychological fiction. Mystery fiction. Audiobooks. |
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- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2005 February/March
Don't plan to do anything once you start listening to Tess Gerritsen's riveting story of serial murder. Narrator Kathe Mazur captures the listener from the first terrible moments when a girl is lured to a remote wooded area and left entombed alive in a pit. Mazur doesn't let go until the final claustrophobic struggle of a kidnapped pregnant woman imprisoned in a coffin-like box. Another strand of the tightly constructed plot concerns Boston Medical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles. Adopted in infancy, Isles discovers that she had an identical twin sister, a schizophrenic woman in prison for a double homicide could be her mother, and her family lineage might include a line of psychopaths. Gerritsen's intriguing, original plot and Kathe Mazur's powerful performance are unforgettable. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2004 July #1
Last seen in The Sinner (2003), medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles has just returned from a trip to France to encounter a grisly discovery. A woman has been found shot to death in front of her home, and the woman is a dead ringer for Maura. The woman, whose name is Anna Leoni, turns out to be Maura's twin; both were given up for adoption 40 years ago. The mystery deepens when Officer Rick Ballard shows up and tells Maura and Detective Jane Rizzoli that Anna was on the run from an abusive boyfriend and under police protection. But that still doesn't answer the question of what led Anna to Maura's door, and that question leads Maura to trace her sister's steps to an old house in Maine. Things get even more perplexing when decades-old human bones are found nearby. The human remains lead Maura to her birth mother, Amalthea Lank, who is now in jail for the brutal murder of two women. Maura is unsure whether and how her mother is connected to Anna's death, and she's confused by her growing feelings for Rick, who may have been in love with her sister. Gerritsen's latest taut thriller is sure to appeal to fans who have followed Rizzoli and Isle's previous adventures. ((Reviewed July 2004)) Copyright 2004 Booklist Reviews. - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews - Audio And Video Online Reviews 1991-2018
Dr. Maura Iles, a Boston medical examiner, returns from a Paris vacation to a grisly scene. The dead body of a woman who looks exactly like Iles is found in a car outside the medical examiner's home. Detective Jane Rizzoli learns that the victim is in fact Iles' identical twin. The case takes another bizarre twist with the discovery of the twins' incarcerated mother. Narrator Mazur has the characters down perfectly, especially in her portrayal of Rizzoli, who speaks in an authentic Boston accent. Fans of Gerritsen's previous thrillers will enjoy Mazur's energetic reading of this exciting tale. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2004 June #1
Doc Gerritsen rises to her best yet, skirting neatly around the cliché plotting usually tied to serial killers.Once again Boston Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli plays second fiddle to "Queen of the Dead" Medical Examiner Maura Isles (The Sinner, 2003), who gets to open up all the vics-unless they look just like her. After a week's vacation in Paris, Maura returns to Boston to find flashing police cruisers in front of her house. As she gets out of her car and approaches the police, her neighbors and friendly cops stare at her aghast. They've just seen her dead, shot through the head in a car in front of her next door neighbor's house. Even Maura is astounded to see her own body as a vic. Who is this dead woman? Gerritsen spins out the answer slowly, but we'll tell you that she's Maura's unbeknownst twin sister-both were orphans, adopted at birth by separate families-but also part of a grisly adoption racket that involves the serial murders of pregnant women all around the country. The story turns on Maura's perhaps real mother, a fake schizophrenic locked up in a mental hospital for murder, who tells Maura she's slated to die the same way her sister did. Meanwhile, Maura is pursued by a handsome cop who has heavy family problems. Pregnant Jane Rizzoli, who buddies with Maura to help find answers to her dilemma, is close to term-and one wonders if she too may be slated for death. To tell more would be a disservice. Gerritsen leaves out her great arias on the poetry of the inner organs and the sweet hell of death that so ennobles The Sinner, but she keeps such a tight rein on her inspired plot that we don't miss them.Gerritsen always does well on the charts, but this masterful outing should rocket her into the top bracket of suspense writers. Copyright Kirkus 2004 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2004 April #1
Shockingly, the woman sitting in a car in Boston medical examiner Maura Isles's driveway is a dead ringer for Isles herself. She's certainly dead, and she's the identical twin Isles never knew she had. With a six-city author tour. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2004 June #3
Pregnant women play key roles in this bone-chilling fourth novel in Gerritsen's edgy, suspenseful series of thrillers featuring Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli. Both of the usually gritty crime fighters are uncharacteristically vulnerable. Rizzoli is carrying her first child, and Isles-divorced and alone at age 40 and suddenly, unsettlingly aware of her biological clock-is experiencing decidedly unspiritual feelings for her priest. As the novel begins, Isles-an adopted child who never knew the identity of her birth parents-is confronted by the corpse of a murdered woman who is apparently her identical twin. Another detective, Rick Ballard, comes forward to say that he knew the victim and is certain her killer is a powerful pharmaceutical baron known to have stalked her. Isles falls for the handsome Ballard, but she isn't convinced by his theory, and she launches an investigation into her sister's past, following the trail to a state correctional facility and a schizophrenic inmate who may be her mother. This opens the cobwebbed pages of a nightmarish family album and leads Isles to a remote cabin in Maine where the long-dead body of a pregnant woman is discovered buried in the woods. The killer, Isles discovers, has been murdering pregnant women for decades, making periodic sweeps of the country. Meanwhile, brief scenes chronicle the diabolical kidnapping of an affluent pregnant housewife who is kept buried in a crude coffin. An electric series of startling twists, the revelation of ghoulishly practical motives and a nail-biting finale make this Gerritsen's best to date. Agent, Meg Ruley. 6-city author tour. (Aug.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
