Boston pathologist Dr Maura Isles returns home from her holiday in Paris to find her street crowded with police cars. As she approaches her house she finds her neighbours staring at her in astonishment - not surprisingly, for in a car parked outside her house is the body of a woman with her face.
The woman is identified as Anna Jessop, with a Massachusetts driving licence. Homicide detective Jane Rissoli, now eight months pregnant, poses the question that with such a likeness is this mistaken identity, was Maura the intended victim? Maura cannot shed any light on this. As far as she knows she has no enemies and hasn’t received any threats. She wants to know just who is Anna Jessop, but Anna Jessop seems to have no past. And so Maura, who was given up for adoption at birth, begins a journey to uncover her own mysterious origins.
As Maura begins to probe into her past she meets a Detective Ballard, who seems to have information she needs, but can she trust him, and is he keeping back more than he is telling?
I don’t read crime books for the crime; I read crime fiction because mysteries
fascinate me and I love to unravel them. This book has it all: an absorbing
mystery and crimes reaching back into the past. It is a chilling read and raises
the idea that maybe in some circumstances it is better not to probe too deeply
into one’s origins. This book is on my top ten for the year
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Lizzie Hayes
This is the fourth in the Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series - the fifth, Vanish,
has just been published in hardback. Tess Gerritsen has also written an number
of medical thrillers and romance novels.