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VANISH
by Tess Gerritsen
Ballantine Books, August 2005
352 pages
$24.95
ISBN: 0345476972


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Boston medical examiner Maura Isles is overloaded with work. What with a large traffic accident and the usual deaths in Boston, the bodies waiting to be autopsied are backing up. When she is working alone late one night she enters the cold body storage room and one of the female cadavers sits up! Getting the poor woman fully revived and to the hospital emergency room starts a media frenzy.

Homicide detective Jane Rizzoli is nine months pregnant and a week overdue. After she gets involved in an altercation in the courthouse, her last job before maternity leave, her water breaks and she's taken to the hospital. While waiting for her doctor to give her an ultrasound, she's swept up in a dangerous situation. The woman who had been revived from the morgue has killed a guard and after taking hostages demands that the media gets her message out or else she will start killing her captives.

When a man from the outside easily walks into the hospital and joins the woman holding the hostages, the police and now the FBI, including Jane's new husband Gabriel Dean, are outraged. Everything about this situation is highly unusual.

Involving international kidnapping, slavery and prostitution, all embroiled with high US Defense Department government cover-ups and favors, VANISH doesn't permit you to feel safe or trust anyone. Tess Gerritsen, the author, has created a power-packed, intriguing, tight, highly readable story in VANISH.

Written in turns from the point of view of Jane, Maura and an Eastern European woman, VANISH places you firmly inside these characters' hearts and heads, forging a bond with them that grabs the readers and won't permit them to leave its pages.

Gerritsen manages to write a story packed with emotion, a complicated multi-layered textured story, fraught with violence and tension alongside moments of amazingly realistic scenes of domestic life and does it with skill, style and expert writing craftsmanship. VANISH is a must read for all Gerritsen fans and in addition, for every mystery lover who wants to read an excellent book. Don't miss it. VANISH is superb.

Reviewed by Sharon Katz, August 2005

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