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I’ve been on a Tess Gerritsen tear, having just completed my seventh Gerritsen thriller of the year. The Silent Girl is the ninth book in the highly regarded Rizzoli & Isles series, and ranks up there as one of my favorites so far. It is fast-paced, suspenseful, and intriguing.It starts off with a bang – or, I should say, a “whoosh”! Detectives Jane Rizzoli and Barry Frost are called to the scene of a murder in Boston’s Chinatown, where they find a severed hand. When they find the victim, they s...
4.5*This is a riveting mystery that I found hard to put down. I read it in two days. It starts with the discovery of a severed hand and a gun in an alley, and then a body w/o a hand on a roof. The dead woman was dressed in black and had no id--all suggesting a professional killer. The car belonging to the dead woman is found and it has a handheld GPS with two addresses--a martial arts academy in Chinatown and a retired Boston police detective, Lou Ingersoll. Detectives Rizzoli and Frost soon fin...
Detective Jane Rizzoli and ME Maura Isles are called to a crime scene in Chinatown where a severed hand was found in an alley that eventually led to a female corpse on the rooftop of one of the adjacent buildings. Clues are scarce but eventually lead them to a 19-year old case where five people died in an apparent murder-suicide at a restaurant there in Chinatown. Also connected are two teenaged girls who are tied to the victims and disappeared shortly before and after the massacre. I was drawn
Another great “Vacation 2020” book!I love how these mysteries just get better with each book. Not only does Gerritsen deepen our insight into her co-leading characters’ lives but her mysteries have become more interesting, more layered, and slightly less procedural. I loved all the Chinese mythology that serves as the fascinating foundation for this haunting tale. This one hit close to paranormal without jumping the shark— something that can be difficult if not handled well. Only missed that fif...
*Everybody was kung fu fighting*I like this book better than the rest. Some kick-ass vigilantes are starring and I love learning more about Asian myth and culture.
The Silent Girl is book 9 in the Rizzoli & Isles series and I think this book maybe one of the best in the series. Usually the deeper into a series you get the quality of writing and story plots gets worse but not this time. While I believe for the most part this series should be read in order. The Silent Girl can be read as a stand alone and you would still enjoy it just as much. The Silent Girl has little of everything action, family secrets, Chinese American history and strong fearless women....
Why has it taken me so long to get back to this series am asking myself the question Tess Gerritsen is the madam of this genre & she has all the right moves to keep the reader glued to every page.The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen was a very atmospheric read Set in China Town a young woman is found in an ally with her hand missing & decapitated Jane Rizzoli enlists the help of Johnny Tam to help find out how she died as he knew the ins & outs of the China Town district. Years earlier a mass killi...
"How many bodies are lying here, she wondered. How many silent girls who will finally be able to speak?"This is the ninth book in the Rizzoli & Isles series and I have read all of them. It seems there is a bit of supernatural themes in these books and this one was no exception. During a guided tour of Boston's Chinatown a young boy finds a severed hand. Still dripping blood. The police are called and Detectives Jane Rizzoli and Barry Frost respond. During the search of the area they find a woman...
All day I have been watching the girl.What an impressive opening line…the best crime starts with a great hook, and this one drags you straight in by the hair.When a hand is found in a Chinatown alley in downtown Boston, Geritsen’s brilliant detective Jane Rizzoli climbs to a nearby rooftop and finds the hand’s owner – a woman whose throat has been slashed so deeply that her head is severed. The murder of this woman with no ID links to a horrifying murder suicide that happened nineteen years earl...
The Silent Girl is book nine in the Rizzoli and Isles series by Tess Gerritsen. Detective Jane Rizzoli and her partner Detective Frost caught a case in China Town. A body was found on the top of a restaurant that has been closed for twenty years after five people were killed. At first Detective Jan Rizzoli and Detective Frost thought this case was straightforward and easy to finish. However, this was not the case. The readers of The Silent Girl will continue to follow the twists and turns in Det...
I think I've read all of Tess Gerritsen's books, and this may be her best yet. By using her Asian heritage and more over-the-top humor and risks, she's produced a book that has almost a graphic novel feel, but sits well on her Rizzoli & Isles shelf at the same time.After finding a dead woman with a severed hand on the roof of a building, Rizzoli & Isles find themselves following an invisible killer out of Chinese folklore--and an equally invisible and implacable hero from the same source. The de...
4! This R & I case was very well done! Had me on the edge of my seat until the pieces started to fit together...about the midpoint...Am I the only one to get a comic book vibe here??? Well done!
If you are like me then you are a huge Tess Gerritsen Fan and have or been dying to get your hands on her latest The Silent Girl - I know I have. It's been months since I first put my name on the waiting list at the library but it has finally arrived and I read it in one day :). The Silent Girl features three different time periods. The first is Nineteen years ago , when it was said that a Chinese cook named Mr. Wu went on a killing spree in a Chinatown restaurant and murdered five people and th...
I am a huge fan of Tess Gerritsen! This is number 9 in her Rizzoli and Isles series and it didn't disappoint. It was fast moving, suspenseful and I found myself staying up late at night so I could find out what happened next. This particular book features Rizzoli more so than Isles and although both characters are interesting, I especially love Rizzoli's attitude and spunk!! This particular book took place in Boston's Chinatown and I really enjoyed reading about that neighborhood and the subseq
Ok, so my library now charges $1 for "New Hot Picks!" and this was soooo NOT worth that dollar!I really have enjoyed Gerritsen's writing style...up until this book.I did not like the progression, or lack of progression I should say with the whole Rizzoli & Isles characters. And why was this book called "The Silent Girl?" It was about SEVERAL girlsssss. Horrible and sick story about what happens to these girls, and you know what? We are left to our own imagination to "see" what really happened to...
I received this book from the Amazon Vine program.I have been a fan of Tess Gerritsen since I met her at a book signing about 10 years ago. I truly believe that she is one of the best thriller writers.After a woman is found murdered in the Chinatown section of Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli follows the trail of the killer, leading her to an atrocious massacre from 19 years prior. As she puts clues of the current case together, Jane soon learns about the mysterious disappearance of several teenag...
I was a little concerned before I started to read The Silent Girl, that now that I've been watching Rizzoli and Isles, I'd picture the actress' as opposed to the picture I had made in my mind of Jane, Frost, and Maura. I'm glad that when I started reading, my character's that I see in my head were still firmly there. I enjoyed the book very much. I liked learning more about China Town and Chinese legends. Jane hasn't changed much. Maura's a mess. IT seems to me, that this many books into the ser...
I discovered Tess Gerritsen's wonderful Rizzoli and Isles series last year with the excellent novel Ice Cold. Then of course I started reading the earlier novels so it was a pleasure to go forward with The Silent Girl. In this outing Gerritsen visits her Chinese roots and sets the story in Boston's Chinatown. As I live in an area, Vancouver, that has a huge Chinese population and a legendary Chinatown that is both intriguing and mysterious I was ready for the mysteries of Boston's Chinatown. Ger...
I've read and mostly liked the previous novels in the Rizzoli/Isles series - some more than others. This is competently executed crime fiction, with both police procedural and thriller elements. The forensic aspect of the series - represented by the character of Dr Maura Isles - plays less of a part in this novel. This was a plus for me, because I'm rather tired of detailed autopsy descriptions. I am also rather tired of Dr Isles' tortured and soap opera-y love life. Jane Rizzoli is an interesti...