Jane Rizzoli/ Maura Isles #1
Ballantine
August 2002
On Sale: July 30, 2002
Featuring: Catherine Cordell; Thomas Moore; Jane Rizzoli
368 pages ISBN: 0345447840 EAN: 9780345447845 Paperback Add to Wish List
He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into
bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors
they soon will endure. The precision of the killer's
methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine,
propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public
to name him "The Surgeon."
The cops' only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim
of a nearly identical crime. Two years ago, Dr. Catherine
Cordell fought back and killed her attacker before he could
complete his assault. Now she hides her fears of intimacy
behind a cool and elegant exterior and a well-earned
reputation as a top trauma surgeon.
Cordell's careful facade is about to crack as this new
killer recreates, with chilling accuracy, the details of
Cordell's own ordeal. With every new murder he seems to be
taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her
home. Her only comfort comes from Thomas Moore, the
detective assigned to the case. But even Moore cannot
protect Cordell from a brilliant hunter who somehow
understands--and savors--the secret fears of every woman he
kills.