Saturday, November 23, 2013

Body Double by Tess Gerritsen - A Book Review


Body Double is the 4th book in the Rizzoli and Isles series by Tess Gerritsen and is another thriller of a ride.  This book series goes much deeper and gets much darker than the television series and the story lines continue to differ between the two.

In Body Double, Maura Isles is faced with the undeniable truth of her linage before being adopted as a newborn.  When a women killed by a Black Talon bullet on the street in front of her home bears a striking resemblance, Maura soon discovers that the woman lying on her autopsy table is her own twin sister.  A sister she never knew she had.  Needing answers to where she came from and who she really is, Maura throws herself into the middle of Jane Rizzoli's investigation.

Maura quickly finds herself in Fox Harbor, Massachusetts, the small coastal town where her sister Anna lived.  Confronted with the small ramshackle house isolated in the middle of the woods with its array of gleaming new door bolts, several of them on each door, Maura can feel the evil that followed her sister.  Spending the night alone in the house is unnerving but daylight brings a humid day along with the discovery of a young couples bones turning up in the empty lot next door.

With the help of detective Rick Ballard who personally knew her sister and her sister's stalker, Terrance Van Gates, the attorney used for Maura and Anna's adoption, and Dr. Joyce O'Donnell, a psychiatrist with a morbid fascination of the worst criminal minds, Rizzoli and Isles find the path to the truth deeply rooted in gruesome details involving missing pregnant women located across the country.

While Maura faces the truth of her natural beginning piece by piece, Jane, now seven-and-a-half months pregnant, must dig deep to quickly find the answers that will keep Maura safe.  Body Double delivers a fast paced page-turner that will keep you guessing right up to the end.  Again, if you are a Rizzoli and Isles fan, this book is a winner.  I highly recommend it.

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