Rizzoli & Isles · Book 1
The Surgeon
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780739420416
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Surgeon (2001, 368 pages) opens the series with Jane Rizzoli, the blunt, working-class Boston homicide detective, as its lead -- Maura Isles doesn't appear until the following book. It establishes the medical-thriller precision, drawn from Tess Gerritsen's own background as a physician, that runs through the whole series.
Its place in Rizzoli & Isles
The Surgeon is book 1 in the Rizzoli & Isles series. It is followed by The Apprentice. 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
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