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| The Sinner | 
 enlarge | Author: Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Bantam Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 4520
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 419
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 0553815024
EAN: 9780553815023
ASIN: 0553815024
Publication Date: January 17, 2005
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 A PLODDING READ September 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After reading 'The Surgeon & 'The Apprentice' i could'nt wait to read this book. I read the first 2 books within 2 days of buying them, but 4 days later i still havent finished this one. I just find this book slow and plodding after the excitement and fast pace of the first 2 books.
I find the character of Dr. Maura Isles as cold and miserable as the weather described in the book. Rizzoli's constant stoicism is becoming wearing and boring and the relationship between her and Korsak is beginning to mirror the one between Scarpetta and Marino in Patricia Cornwells novels.
Even so - i still think Tess Gerritsen is a brilliant writer and look forward to reading Body Double, which hopefully will make up for the dissapointment of this book.
Not amazing..but good June 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the third installment of the Rizzoli/Isles books.. I had high expectations, and the book is good, but the surgeon and the apprentice where much better! The ending was really a matter of.. "Who was that again?" - although it didnt get the blood pumping at points, it could have been much better.. but a good read none the less.
Enjoyable if not a tad unbelievable March 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the third Rizzoli and Isles book from Gerritsen and I found it more enjoyable than the previous. Gerritsens medical details are highly readable and do not make the book at all tedious like other authors seem to do. The 2 lead characters are really likeable and are a treat to read about. The plot however is a bit farfetched with the links to India and that whole side of it seems abit un necessary. But Gerritsens writing and characters and plot twists are so enjoyable its really not a problem.
 A Secret Worth Killing For January 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In a remote leper village in India Howard Redfield photographs the dead. He's afraid, and well he should be because what he photographs here will ultimately lead to his murder in Boston a year later. There are secrets that some will kill to protect.
It's snowing, Christmas is close, when Boston M.E. Maura Isles gets the call to go out and investigate the murder in a contemplative order of nuns. She finds Detective Jane Rizzoli at the scene, learns that novice Sister Camille has been brutally murdered and that aging Sister Ursala has been horribly beaten. As it turns out the killer was after Sister Ursala and had thought he'd finished her, but how could he know that the nun had a congenital birth defect, one of her carotid arteries didn't pump blood, so when he checked for a pulse, he found none.
A woman is found dead in a seedier part of town. Her face has been ripped away, her hands and feet had been severed. Maura deduces Hanson's disease, leprosy. The killer hadn't been taking trophies, after all. He'd been trying to hid the illness. From the disease they guess the victim might have been from India. Sister Ursala had worked for a couple years with a group of lepers in India. Was there a connection?
Then Howard Redfield turns up dead.
This book, one of Tess Gerritsen's best, is a thriller of the first order, a mystery full of red herrings that will keep you guessing as you burn through the pages, and there is even that special touch of romance for Rizzoli that will touch your heart, even if you're a guy.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
 A B-movie script through and through October 26, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Lacks any suspense and reality. Ridden with cliches and stereotypes. If it was a film it would be slotted in at 2am on a third rate drama channel, after Perry Mason. Don't read if you expect to be entertained. Any higher rating review must have been by the author or her friends.
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