
To be honest, I didn’t realize it had been so long since I’d read The Surgeon. As I got into The Apprentice, I found I needed to go back to my original review of the first book to hopefully fill in some gaps.Īnd Reader? Did I ever. Maura Isles, so if y’all want to start reading this series because you love the TNT classic Rizzoli and Isles … I still suggest you read The Surgeon first, because The Apprentice takes a lot of its plot from the first book. Of note, The Apprentice marks the first appearance of Dr. The Apprentice is the second book in the Jane Rizzoli series by Maine resident, Tess Gerritsen.

(Also getting quite ridiculous? The amount of time that spans between my reviews. (Does the Yarmouth library even participate in inter-library loan? Because seriously, their lack of shit is getting quite ridiculous.) And for every disappointment the Yarmouth Library gives me, I get at least one-fifth surprise: they actually had the next book in a series I wanted to read. Set in a stunning world where evil is easy to learn and hard to end, this is a thriller by a master who could teach other authors a thing or two.From the Hardcover edition.This was one of the last books I got from the library before beginning my huge (and as of yet, incomplete) task of trying to read the Ron Chernow biography of Alexander Hamilton. Most of all, she isn't counting on becoming a target herself, once Hoyt is suddenly free, joining his mysterious blood brother in a vicious vendetta.Filled with superbly created characters-and the medical and police procedural details that are her trademark-The Apprentice is Tess Gerritsen at her brilliant best. Or on meeting Special Agent Gabriel Dean, who knows more than he will tell. even if it means receiving more resistance from her all-male homicide squad.But Rizzoli isn't counting on the U.S.


Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her-literally and figuratively-she is determined to finally end Hoyt's awful influence. At least that's what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death.The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city's streets. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. and all-too-deadly.THE APPRENTICEIt is a boiling hot Boston summer.

Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent. The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns-and so does that chilling novel's diabolical villain.
