Simply awful........... - Rated 
My third venture into Gerritsen's work.....and I should have learnt by now.
OK, I'm no writer, but I know bad writing when I see it. And this is simply awful.
The storyline is promising, but then it weaves into a love story which is plucked straight out of some dizzy romance magazine. Woman's husband dies in hotel fire. No post mortem to identify body because its so badly burnt. Dont worry about the bullet that's found, some maid must have dropped it. So just bury him. No grieving. Goody bloke (who naturally flosses and is suspended from his work) asks her questions after his death. Did you love him? (God, she is so lovely). He imagines stroking her glossy hair. Oh, for heaven's sake.
In fact, I laughed out loud at some of the cringeworthy dialogue. Is this for real? It felt like it had been written by some teenager for her summer project.
Well done. The worst novel I've read this year. Real Gerritsen fans should avoid at all costs. Laughably bad.
A note from the publisher - Rated 
As the publisher of Tess's more recent thrillers, I wanted to advise fans that this was originally published by Mira / Mills & Boon in the 1980s as a romantic suspense novel. Despite Mira's claims that the books they publish were Sunday Times bestsellers, and despite their use of Harlan Coben's quote (both of which Tess and we have asked them not to use), they continue to reissue her novels as thrillers. They are not thrillers, and were never intended to be.
The thrillers featuring Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles are The Surgeon, first published by Transworld in 2002, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish and The Mephisto Club.
If you have any further comments / queries, you can talk to Tess direct via her website, www.tessgerritsen.com, or her blog. Or you can see her in person when she comes to the UK in Jan 08 with her new novel, The Bone Garden.
Selina Walker, Transworld.
different but still worth reading - Rated 
Having read the apprentice, body double, the surgeon and the other books in this series I was a little apprehensive about reading a "one-off". I need not have worried. If you are looking for a book written in a similar vein to the books I have just mentioned - then this is probably not the book for you. Call after Midnight is lightweight in comparison and is more in the vein of a Dorothy Gilman - Mrs Pollifax book. Call after midnight is about a woman who receives a phonecall which informs her her husband is dead - or is he? It appears Simon Fontaine was not the man he claimed to be - what follows is a worldwide chase to discover the truth. I could really envisage this as a movie that would have starred Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. Anyway I digress... overall if you are looking for a good beach read and enjoy an old fashioned thriller without blood and gore this is probably for you!
fun story! - Rated 
I like this writer's style. And I thought this was a fun story! You'll like it too. I promise!
prepare yourself for a fast trip around europe - Rated
what would you do if you had just found out that your husband had died abroad?Tess takes us on a fast trip around europe with a man to die for as company.Full of twists and turns ,the plot thickens,who can you trust?Chuck in some mystery,romance and espionnage this book has it all.
|
