Her only comfort comes from Thomas Moore, the detective assigned to the case.

With every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home.

Cordell’s careful facade is about to crack as this new killer recreates, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell’s own ordeal. Now she hides her fears of intimacy behind a cool and elegant exterior and a well-earned reputation as a top trauma surgeon. Catherine Cordell fought back and killed her attacker before he could complete his assault. The cops’ only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim of a nearly identical crime. The precision of the killer’s methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him “The Surgeon”. He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. But Angela’s convinced there’s a real wolf in her vicinity, and her cries might now fall on deaf ears.In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times best-selling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil – and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again. If only Jane would listen-instead she writes off Angela’s concerns as the result of an overactive imagination. Maybe the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree: Nothing in Angela’s neighborhood gets by her-not the gossip about a runaway teenager down the block and definitely not the strange neighbors who have just moved in across the street.Īngela’s sure there’s no such thing as coincidence in her sleepy suburb. Meanwhile, Angela Rizzoli hasn’t had a decent night’s sleep in all the years since her daughter became a homicide detective. What exactly was Sofia involved in? One thing is clear: The killer will do anything it takes to keep their secret safe. When Jane finally makes a connection between Sofia and the victim of a hit-and-run from months earlier, the case only grows more blurry.

But anything can happen behind closed doors, and Sofia seemed to have plenty of secrets in her last days, making covert phone calls to traceless burner phones. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by her neighbors, lies bludgeoned to death in her own home. Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder.

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