Tess Gerritsen

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Tess Gerritsen | A group of retired spies in Maine teams up with the local police chief
March 17, 2025
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SANDI SHILHANEK | Meet Tess Gerritsen and Lisa Gardner
July 18, 2010
Saturday I should have stayed home and cleaned my house especially since I’m leaving next Sunday for my first RWA (need I say how  Read More...

Tess Gerritsen | Turning Real Life Into Fiction
July 13, 2010
As a thriller writer, I'm always searching for the idea that sends a chill slithering up my spine. A decade ago, I felt just  Read More...

Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D.

While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction and in 1987, her first novel, Call After Midnight, was published. It was just the first of 32 suspense novels that she’s written over a 36-year writing career.  She also wrote a screenplay, "Adrift," which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.

Tess's first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Her novels have hit bestseller lists ever since.  Among her titles are Gravity, The Surgeon, Vanish, Listen to Me, and The Spy Coast. Her books have been translated into 40 languages, and more than 40 million copies have been sold around the world.

Her series of novels featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the hit TNT television series "Rizzoli & Isles," starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander.

Now retired from medicine, she writes full time. She lives in Maine.

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