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Listen to me : a novel

Gerritsen, Tess (author.).

Summary: "Rizzoli & Isles is back! From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, the most harrowing installment has Jane and Maura investigating a brutal murder with dire implications, and this time, with Jane's intrepid mother, Angela, looking into a mystery of her own. "Suspense doesn't get any smarter than this." -LEE CHILD, on the Rizzoli & Isles series Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by all her neighbors, lies in her own home, brutally bludgeoned. But anything can happen behind closed doors, and Sofia seemed to have plenty of secrets in her last days, making covert phone calls to old contacts and traceless burner phones. When a connection is made between Sofia and the victim of a hit-and-run months earlier, the case grows even more blurry. What exactly was Sofia involved in? One thing is clear: the killer will do anything it takes to keep their secret safe. Meanwhile, Angela Rizzoli hasn't had a decent night's sleep in all the years since her daughter's become a homicide detective. Maybe the apple didn't fall too far from the tree. Nothing in her neighborhood gets by Angela-definitely not the strange neighbors who have just moved in across the street. In a sleepy town like Angela's, there is no such thing as coincidence, if only Jane would listen. Instead, she writes off Angela's concerns as the result of an overactive imagination. But Angela's convinced there's a real wolf in her vicinity, and her cries might now fall on deaf ears. As old sins cast long shadows, Jane and Maura will have to race to discover the truth before the darkness consumes them"--

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  • ISBN: 9780593497135
  • ISBN: 0593497147
  • ISBN: 9780593497142
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2022]

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Subject: Rizzoli, Jane -- Detective (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Isles, Maura -- (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Police -- Massachusetts -- Fiction
Women detectives -- Fiction
Homicide -- Fiction
Medical examiners (Law) -- Fiction
Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction
Isles, Maura -- (Fictitious character)
Rizzoli, Jane -- Detective (Fictitious character)
Homicide
Medical examiners (Law)
Police
Women detectives
Massachusetts
Massachusetts -- Boston
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)

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  • Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2022 June #1
    Has it really been five years since the last Rizzoli and Isles novel? Fans who have been eagerly awaiting a new installment in the ever-popular series can breathe easy: this one is worth the wait. A woman has been murdered. At first, detective Jane Rizzoli and forensic pathologist Maura Isles are stumped. Who would kill a respected and widely liked nurse? Soon they discover the victim might not be entirely whom she seemed to be, and the investigation gets really hot, really quickly. Meanwhile, Rizzoli's mother, Angela, has some concerns about her new neighbors, but with her daughter otherwise occupied, Angela might have to investigate these newcomers all by herself. Gerritsen juggles both storylines adroitly, leaving one at a tantalizing moment to move on to the other. Result: all-night reading sessions to get the book finished. The interplay between the two lead characters is as entertaining as always, and the writing feels effortless. A fine entry in this popular series.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The latest Rizzoli and Isles novel in the long-running series will draw fans back with gusto. Copyright 2022 Booklist Reviews.
  • Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2022 May #2
    The snoop is the star as Rizzoli and Isles make their 13th appearance together. A hit-and-run driver injures young Amy Antrim in downtown Boston, and Sofia Suarez, a middle-aged critical care nurse, is bludgeoned to death. Amy's father, a doctor, had worked with Sofia, but otherwise the two events appear unconnected. Boston PD Homicide detectives Jane Rizzoli and her partner, Barry Frost, investigate the murder, and medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles dissects poor Sofia's corpse for clues. And a teenage girl goes missing for the fourth time. Will she return on her own, or has something horrible happened to her? As Jane tries to work, she's pestered by her mom, Angela, the neighborhood snoop. Angela knows everybody's business and is friends with most of her neighbors. Her mantra is, "if you see something, say something," and she sees a new couple that has moved in close by, pulled the shades down, even installed bars on the windows. She wants her daughter to investigate, but Jane is busy dealing with real crime. Yet something fishy is going on over there, perhaps a woman being held captive and abused. The characters are certainly colorful. Isles escapes her daily view of death by playing piano and doing it to perfection. A colleague is surprised that she "chose cadavers over Chopin." Jane is miffed that her good friend Maura had never mentioned her musical pastime, but music "was her safe space, where death did not intrude." Meanwhile, a self-proclaimed former SEAL pumps iron in his front window, the better to impress the women. Angela gossips with her Scrabble friends and mildly resents the snotty wordsmith who has a master's in English. For her part, Angela has "a life degree in motherhood." She knows that the way to get men to help her is to offer them zucchini bread, and she knows how to tactfully fend off a neighbor's unwelcome advances. Gerritsen combines her knowledge of medicine and police procedure with an intricate plot, clever twists, and strong women. Solid entertainment by one of the best. Copyright Kirkus 2022 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved.
  • Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2022 May #5

    The case of Sofia Suarez, a widowed nurse found bludgeoned to death in her home, drives bestseller Gerritsen's engrossing 13th mystery featuring Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles (after 2017's I Know a Secret). The inoffensive Sofia appears to have had a blameless past, but why was she, as Jane and Maura discover, making surreptitious calls to burner phones in the days before her death? Following leads painstakingly gathered from police reports and interviews with people who knew Sofia, Jane eventually links her murder to a cold case several states away. Meanwhile, Jane's mother, Angela, is worried about changes she sees in the neighborhood in which Jane grew up. Angela can't understand why the parents of a missing teenage girl seem so unconcerned or why the new couple across the street never seem to leave the house. The tension rises as Angela's vigilance leads her to draw false conclusions and puts her in personal danger. Gerritsen smoothly shifts between her complex plotlines as the action builds to a surprising conclusion. Newcomers will find this entry easily accessible. Agent: Meg Ruley, Jane Rotrosen Agency. (July)

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