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| The Mephisto Club | 
 enlarge | Author: Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Bantam Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 8132
Media: Paperback
Pages: 496
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.7
ISBN: 0553817809
EAN: 9780553817805
ASIN: 0553817809
Publication Date: August 27, 2007
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For a considerable time Tess Gerritsen has been producing some of the most challenging -- and disturbing -- crime novels being written today. A speciality, of course, is her preparedness to go further than most authors would dare to -- male or female -- and with The Mephisto Club, she once more seems prepared to face the reader and say: if you can take it, I can dish it out. While Gerritsen has found new things to say in the genre of the serial killer novel, what really distinguishes her work is the brilliant characterisation of her twin heroines, medical examiner Dr Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli. Both protagonists feature in this latest novel, and while it might not crank up the tension to the same degree as the remarkable Vanish, it will be a rare reader indeed who will be able to put this one down. Christmas in Boston brings horror rather than good cheer when a woman's body is found dismembered in a crime scene that leaves even hardened cops queasy. Doctor Maura Isles is assigned to the case, but soon another brutal murder takes place: a woman has been mutilated and murdered on Beacon Hill, near the home of the director of the Mephisto Club. This is a clandestine society whose subject is the study of evil -- and its agenda is to confront it in its most unadulterated forms. As Detective Jane Rizzoli becomes involved, it's quickly apparent that both women (no strangers to the bloodiest extremes of human cruelty) are up against something which is close to a distillation of the purest evil. This isn't quite Tess Gerritsen on her very best form, but it's still more compelling and audacious than most thrillers being written today. The legions of Tess Gerritsen fans need not hesitate. --Barry Forshaw
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 The Mephisto Club - Not her best. September 22, 2008
This is the 6th in Gerritsen's Rizzoli/Isles medical thriller series, and while her latest books have gone from strength to strength, each story more gripping and believable than the last, I fear Tess has peaked with her prior attempt, 'Vanish'. As this 'The Mephisto Club' certainly is a dissapointment.
I wont rehash the story as all you need to know can be read on amazons synopsis. It actually isnt a bad book, but on Tess Gerritsen's scale it's certainly not on form. Her previous books in this series 'Vanish' and 'The Sinner' were 2 of the best books i've read in this genre. This, to me, seems like Gerritsen's attempt to cash in on the whole Da Vinci code bandwagon. References ancient texts and verses from the bible.
It;s worth the read if you're following the series but Gerritsen's definately offered up better attempts than this.
What a creepy boy! August 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
On Christmas Eve pathologist Maura Isles is called to a house where a young woman is slaughtered and the body is left in such a way that the police is sure that it means something. A few days later a second victim is made by what appears to be the same killer. This victim is left in the garden of the leader of a small group of intellectuals that aim at tracing down "evil spirits": people who are such sociopathic bloodthirsty murderers that they consider them to be either a different kind of human or not human at all. More deaths follow and the police start to see a pattern, but it takes them a while to trace down the name of the killer and after that to actually trace the killer. And in the meantime we follow the story of a young woman who feels that she is hunted down, a very creepy little boy and the relational issues between Maura Isles and her friend Daniel, the priest.
The book is definitely a fast and engaging read, but slightly more "supernatural" than the other books by Tess Gerritsen, a thin 4 stars.
Average, but still a good, suspensful crime read June 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In the middle of Winter in Boston, a woman is found murdered and fileted in her house, while her table is set for four and the words "I have sinned" are written in Latin on the wall in blood. Such is the first crime in Tess Gerritsen's "The Mephisto Club".
The second crime introduces the Mephisto Club to the Boston PD - Detective Jane Rizzoli and Dr. Maura Isles. The Mephisto Club is a private society hunting evil in its purest form. For those who are not interested in demons, aliens, or other supernatural creature, rest assured, somthing slimy and scaly jumps from the pages. This is credible evil in a human form, which makes it all the more unsettling.
"The Mephisto Club" is a good, page-turner crime novel, but it doesn't quite reach the thriller level. At times Jane Rizzoli is more interested in detecting her parents' marital status than solving crimes and including Dr. Isles in the plotline seems to be a creative stretch.
I liked the plot, but "The Mephisto Club" seems average to me. I would say, however, that I haven't given up on Tess Gerritsen (or Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles) - and will probably read more of her.
Louise
Lacking something May 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was a huge fan of the early Patricia Cornwell books as they used to pull me in so hard to the story that I'd be freaked out to the point of being kept awake at night. I fell in love with Tess Gerritsens books for the same reason. This is the first book of Mrs G's that hasn't had me on the edge of my seat and looking in the back of the car before getting in. I guess for me it was the whole `evil has a face' theme that I just found unbelievable and as such took away from my fear factor.
What The Mephisto Club does have is the usual array of Tess Gerritsen ingredients - bloody crime scenes, characters we get to know better with each book and a good old mystery to solve. For all those reasons lovers of Tess Gerritsens books will enjoy this book. I just don't think they'll be bowled over by it. For the novice I'd suggest starting with the first in the Rizzoli series before making any judgments.
not a bad read, but not as thrilling as her other books February 19, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm a big fan of Mrs. Gerritsen, but I can't say I loved this book. It starts very promising but it somehow doesn't keep the pace. I felt the author wrapped up the story in a rush and the result was a quite weak ending. Maybe she'll write a sequel? I would have liked to read more about what happened next with Maura and Father Brophy, or with Jane's parents, but I guess this'll come in her next book. It's still an enjoyable read, but not the best she has written.
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