Under The Knife
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Don’t miss this nail-biting romantic suspense thriller from the author of the bestselling Rizzoli & Isles series.
‘Fantastic storyline, got me hooked from the start and couldn’t put it down … I can’t wait to read more from her’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Tess Gerritson never disappoints’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Had she condemned her patient to die? Or was it murder?
For David Ransom, it begins as an open-and-shut case. Malpractice.
As attorney for a grieving family, he's determined to hang a negligent doctor. Then Dr. Kate Chesne storms into his office, daring him to seek out the truth – that she's being framed. First, it was Kate's career that was in jeopardy. Then, when another body is discovered, David begins to believe her.
Suddenly, it's much more. Somewhere in the Honolulu hospital, a killer walks freely among patients and staff. And now David finds himself asking the same questions Kate is desperate to have answered.
Who is next? And why?
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Praise for Tess Gerritsen
‘Gerritsen is a born storyteller’ Lee Child
'Suspenseful and clever’ Karin Slaughter
'Baby, you are going to be up all night' Stephen King
'Hair-raising, nail-biting stuff' GUARDIAN
'Gruesome, seductive and creepily credible' THE TIMES
About the author
Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen is a graduate of Stanford University and went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D. Since 1987, her books have been translated into 37 languages, and more than 25 million copies have been sold around the world. She has received the Nero Wolfe Award and the Rita Award, and she was a finalist for the Edgar award. Now retired from medicine, she writes full time. She lives in Maine.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Melodrama and logical flaws slay this tale of murder and yuppie love. Gerritsen ( A Call After Midnight ) gets off to a flying start with a death during routine surgery. Although medical records suggest the patient died due to an error by anesthesiologist Kate Chesne,sp ok/pk who is sued for malpractice, she persuades David Ransom, lawyer for the victim's parents, that the records are suspect. Together they discover that the ``accident'' is one of a series of murders. Fortunately for the protagonists, the killer, who has efficiently cut the throats of two other victims and fractured the skull of a third, decides for no convincing reason to indulge in an elaborate frame-up that could easily fail. Characters are also inconsistent: in the beginning David plans to ``expose'' and ``destroy'' Kate, but tells her a few pages later that he doesn't attack doctors, only their mistakes. The lovers' squabbling and passion never rise above romance formula; even the author characterizes one of her scenes as ``a tableau taken straight out of some soap opera.''
