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.
Key facts about The Surgeon
The Surgeon is a novel by Tess Gerritsen. Readers have had it since 1 January 2001. It runs to 368 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Surgeon. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780739420416 to find the main one.
The Surgeon is book 1 of 13 in the Rizzoli & Isles series. The series has 13 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Listen to Me is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 1 January 2022.
Additionally, Tess Gerritsen writes The Martini Club as a separate series. Those series sit on our thriller and espionage thriller shelves. Meanwhile, The Shadow Friends is the latest published Tess Gerritsen book on file, from 25 August 2026.
About Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen is a Chinese-American novelist and retired physician, a Stanford graduate with an M.D. from UCSF, who started writing fiction while on maternity leave and published her first novel, Call After Midnight, in 1987. See every Tess Gerritsen book in order.
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
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345447838
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780857503282
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9783734105869