Not amazing..but good - Rated 
This is the third installment of the Rizzoli/Isles books.. I had high expectations, and the book is good, but the surgeon and the apprentice where much better! The ending was really a matter of.. "Who was that again?" - although it didnt get the blood pumping at points, it could have been much better.. but a good read none the less.
Enjoyable if not a tad unbelievable - Rated
This is the third Rizzoli and Isles book from Gerritsen and I found it more enjoyable than the previous. Gerritsens medical details are highly readable and do not make the book at all tedious like other authors seem to do. The 2 lead characters are really likeable and are a treat to read about. The plot however is a bit farfetched with the links to India and that whole side of it seems abit un necessary. But Gerritsens writing and characters and plot twists are so enjoyable its really not a problem.
A Secret Worth Killing For - Rated 
In a remote leper village in India Howard Redfield photographs the dead. He's afraid, and well he should be because what he photographs here will ultimately lead to his murder in Boston a year later. There are secrets that some will kill to protect.
It's snowing, Christmas is close, when Boston M.E. Maura Isles gets the call to go out and investigate the murder in a contemplative order of nuns. She finds Detective Jane Rizzoli at the scene, learns that novice Sister Camille has been brutally murdered and that aging Sister Ursala has been horribly beaten. As it turns out the killer was after Sister Ursala and had thought he'd finished her, but how could he know that the nun had a congenital birth defect, one of her carotid arteries didn't pump blood, so when he checked for a pulse, he found none.
A woman is found dead in a seedier part of town. Her face has been ripped away, her hands and feet had been severed. Maura deduces Hanson's disease, leprosy. The killer hadn't been taking trophies, after all. He'd been trying to hid the illness. From the disease they guess the victim might have been from India. Sister Ursala had worked for a couple years with a group of lepers in India. Was there a connection?
Then Howard Redfield turns up dead.
This book, one of Tess Gerritsen's best, is a thriller of the first order, a mystery full of red herrings that will keep you guessing as you burn through the pages, and there is even that special touch of romance for Rizzoli that will touch your heart, even if you're a guy.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
A B-movie script through and through - Rated 
Lacks any suspense and reality. Ridden with cliches and stereotypes. If it was a film it would be slotted in at 2am on a third rate drama channel, after Perry Mason. Don't read if you expect to be entertained. Any higher rating review must have been by the author or her friends.
Somewhat disappointing - Rated
This is my third Tess Gerritsen novel after reading The Surgeon and The Apprentice. While The Surgeon had me hooked from the get-go I was a little disappointed with the last two books.
This story starts with the discovery of a dead nun in a convent in Boston. Found beside her is another nun.....badly injured but still alive. Meanwhile, further across town the corpse of another victim is found in an abandoned building. Dr Maura Isles is the Medical Examiner on both cases and while she tries to figure out the why's surrounding each case she also finds herself having to handle the reemergence of somebody from her past.
Detectives Jane Rizzoli and Barry Frost are the investigating officers on both cases, bringing back the characters from The Surgeon and The Apprentice.
What I liked about The Surgeon was the page-turning drama involved in the search for a serial killer and the fact that the story wasn't focused on just one character. Ms Gerritsen has changed tact for The Sinner and I don't think it worked. The Sinner was disappointing because it didn't have that drama and instead the story seemed to focus more on the love-lives of Dr. Isles and Det. Rizzoli with the cases going on around them acting as mere background.
As for the ending.....it was obvious who the baddie was in the last few chapters but there was no build-up and we still know virtually nothing about our baddie and that in itself was disappointing.
I know this review seems negative and that's not my intention. The Sinner is still a very good book but it lacked the punch I expected after reading The Surgeon. I've now started reading Body Double so we'll see how that turns out before I abandon all hope!
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