A Boston, de nos jours. Des jeunes femmes sont retrouvées à leur domicile, après avoir été torturées et tuées. Même modus operandi que ceux d'un serial killer qui avait sévi en Géorgie trois ans auparavant. Mais pour la brillante Jane Rizzoli et son équipier Thomas Moore, inspecteurs de la brigade criminelle, cette nouvelle enquête s'annonce plus déroutante que Jamais: le tueur en question a trouvé la mort, de la main même de sa dernière victime, des années auparavant. Ayant miraculeusement survécue, cette dernière, aujourd'hui médecin reconnue, a refait sa vie à Boston, justement. Coïncidence? Rizzoli et le très intègre " Saint Thomas " vont tout faire pour éviter que le " Chirurgien " n'opère de nouveau...
Jane Rizzoli et Maura Isles Séries
Cette série se concentre sur deux femmes fortes, la détective Jane Rizzoli et la médecin légiste Maura Isles, qui collaborent pour résoudre des crimes à Boston. Leur amitié et leur relation professionnelle évoluent alors qu'elles affrontent des affaires sombres et complexes. La série est connue pour son suspense, son drame et ses personnages bien développés qui luttent avec leurs problèmes personnels. Chaque épisode apporte de nouveaux crimes et défis qui mettent à l'épreuve leurs compétences et leur détermination.
Ordre de lecture recommandé
The Surgeon has been locked up for a year but his chilling legacy still haunts the city, and especially Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. But now a new killer is at work and Rizzoli senses something horrifyingly familiar about this murderer's modus operandi.It's when the FBI starts taking an interest in the investigation that Rizzoli begins to wonder just what makes this case so different, so dangerous that the Feds feel the need to get involved.But then the unthinkable happens: the Surgeon escapes. And suddenly there are two brilliant, twisted killers on the loose - master and apprentice, united in their hunt for the most challenging prey of all: the very woman who is hunting them.
The Sinner
- 419pages
- 15 heures de lecture
Within the walls of a cloistered convent, a scene of unspeakable carnage is discovered. On the snow lie two nuns, one dead, one critically injured - victims of a seemingly motiveless, brutally savage attack. Medical examiner Maura Isles' autopsy of the murder victim yields a shocking surprise, but the case takes a disturbing twist.
Returning from Paris to discover a murder victim in her driveway, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the victim looks exactly like her and is a twin sister she never knew.
Au bout de la nuit
- 441pages
- 16 heures de lecture
Institut médico-légal de Boston, 20h. Le docteur Maura Isles finit sa journée de travail en tapant le rapport de sa dernière autopsie. Elle doit retourner à la chambre froide vérifier un détail. Dans le silence de la morgue, il lui semble entendre un bruit. Puis son champ de vision détecte un mouvement. Ouvrant une à une les housses mortuaires, elle se retrouve face au cadavre d'une jeune noyée. Qui ouvre brusquement les yeux... "De quoi frissonner avec une intrigue bien orchestrée" - L'Est-Eclair / Libération Champagne.
'Gruesome, seductive and creepily credible' The Times'I HAVE SINNED'The words are scrawled in blood at the most shocking murder scene Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli have ever witnessed. The victim, a young woman, has been entirely drained of blood and horrifically dismembered.
HE HIDES, HE KILLS, HE KEEPS . . . Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles is asked to attend an intriguing examination. An ancient mummy has been found in a museum basement, prompting great media excitement. But with horror she realises that itâe(tm)s not as ancient as they thought...A very modern bullet is showing up on the scan. Detective Jane Rizzoli is called to investigate and soon discovers a second âe" and then a third âe" mummified body. Who is this killer and why does he preserve his victims so meticulously? And who will be the next to join his monstrous collection?
'The most bone-chilling story featuring on-going characters Rizzoli and Isles.' Daily Mail HE WATCHES Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. The people who lived in them appear to have vanished, seemingly into thin air. HE WAITS Maura Isles is driving through the area with a group of friends when they find themselves trapped in a snowstorm. They stumble into the abandoned village to take shelter. But their nightmare has only just begun. THEY DISAPPEAR Days later, Jane Rizzoli flies to Wyoming to search for her missing friend. A crashed vehicle has been found with four badly burned bodies still inside. Can one of the corpses be Maura's? Jane's hunt for the truth leads her to Kingdom Come. Where the person who was watching Maura now lies waiting for her ...
The Silent Girl
- 318pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli is already at the crime scene when medical examiner Maura Isles arrives on the Chinatown rooftop. Rizzoli's gut says they're on the trail of a twisted predator and when a monkey hair is found on the body, other clues point Rizzoli and Isles in the direction of the fable of the Monkey King.
Last to Die
- 328pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Roman Posljednji preživjeli donosi deseti slučaj istražiteljskog dvojca kojeg čine detektivka Jane Rizzoli i forenzička patologinja Maura Isles, Tess Gerritsen ispričat će nevjerojatno uzbudljivu i originalnu priču kojom se nastavljaju opasne avanture ovog istražiteljskog para. Kad se istražiteljice nađu u školi koja je osnovana kao utočište za djecu koja su izgubila roditelje u nasilnim okolnostima, dugo će im trebati dok zaključe da troje djece nije trebalo preživjeti i da sudbina njihovih roditelja očekuje i njih. No kad se na školskom imanju dogodi ubojstvo istražiteljice će shvatiti da je ubojica bliže no što su očekivale…
A taxidermist has been found hanging from a tree, gutted like one of the animals he hunts. When the remains of another victim are found, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles realise this is a murderer who has been at work for years. And that Boston is not his only hunting ground ... Five years ago, a group of travellers set off on safari in Botswana. None of them was seen again - apart from one woman who stumbled out of the bush weeks later, barely alive. As the sole link to the new spate of horrific killings, Jane is sent to Africa to find her. And convince her to face death once again ...
I Know a Secret : (Rizzoli & Isles 12)
- 416pages
- 15 heures de lecture
When a young woman is found dead, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles are called to the scene of the murder. Though the body bears startling wounds, the actual cause of death is not immediately clear. A few days later, another body is discovered - a seemingly unrelated crime, but the lack of an obvious cause of death shows they have more in common than it would first appear. As Rizzoli and Isles race to discover the link between the victims before the killer can strike again, a mysterious person watches from the sidelines. She has the answers they're looking for. But she knows she has to stay quiet, if she wants to stay alive . . .
Listen To Me
- 336pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Rizzoli & Isles return, in the nail-biting new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.
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Le Voleur de Morts
- 474pages
- 17 heures de lecture
Boston, 1830. La jeune Rose rencontre Norris, futur médecin. D'origine modeste, ce dernier vole des cadavres dans les cimetières et les revend au marché noir afin de financer ses études. Quand une vague de meurtres sanglants secoue la ville, c'est sur lui que se portent tous les soupçons. De son côté, Rose comprend qu'elle est suivie et menacée... De nos jours, dans le Massachusetts. Julia déterre un cadavre dans son jardin : le squelette d'une femme, assassinée il y a plus d'un siècle et dont elle va chercher à découvrir l'identité. Son enquête la mènera sur les traces d'un sinistre ancêtre de Jack l'Eventreur : le "Faucheur".
