Rizzoli & Isles · Book 3
The Sinner
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 390
- ISBN-13
- 9780593050477
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Sinner (2003, 390 pages), the third entry, continues developing the contrasting chemistry between Rizzoli and Isles that Gerritsen builds the series on, alongside the real forensic and pathology detail she brings from her medical background. It followed The Apprentice.
Its place in Rizzoli & Isles
The Sinner is book 3 in the Rizzoli & Isles series. It follows The Apprentice. It is followed by Body Double. See the full Rizzoli & Isles reading order.
Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles make an unlikely pair — Rizzoli is blunt, working-class and allergic to bureaucracy, Isles is reserved, patrician and nicknamed "the Queen of the Dead" for her calm around corpses — but Tess Gerritsen, a physician-turned-novelist, builds the series on the genuine chemistry between them as much as the forensic detail she brings from her own medical background. Rizzoli doesn't actually appear until book one and Isles is introduced only in book…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781594130557
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780307933119
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553824544