THE SINNER
by Tess Gerritsen
I wish I’d written this ...
... because the characters are brilliant!
In the third book in Gerritsen’s impressive Rizzoli and Isles series, Maura Isles is for the first time in the limelight as much as Jane Rizzoli, and we are given greater psychological insight into the two women. In fact, they—and in particular, their love lives—are perhaps more prominent in the narrative than the crime they’re investigating, which makes this one something of a departure from the pattern of its predecessors. This is not a criticism; I really enjoyed getting to know the duo better. As ever, Gerritsen writes unobtrusively and terrifically well, keeping me completely engaged, and not once throwing me out of the story with clumsy or confusing grammar. Upon finishing, I did exactly as I’d done after reading the first and second novels in the series: I moved the next one higher up in my "to read" stack. This is fast becoming an addictive series, and I’m really, really happy to have (currently) nine more books to go.
From the publisher
Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical examiner Maura Isles’s autopsy of the dead woman yields a shocking surprise: Twenty-year-old Sister Camille gave birth before she was murdered. Then another body is found, mutilated beyond recognition. Together, Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli uncover an ancient horror that connects these terrible slaughters. As long-buried secrets come to light, Maura Isles finds herself drawn inexorably toward the heart of an investigation that strikes close to home—and toward a dawning revelation about the killer’s identity too shattering to consider.
