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I Know a Secret

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Written by Tess Gerritsen — Over the course of 12 books, the partnership of Rizzoli and Isle has become as well-established as, say, Laurel and Hardy or Lennon and McCartney. Or maybe we can add Cagney and Lacey, because these two women are close friends…
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Interview: Tess Gerritsen

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Today, Tess Gerritsen is one of America’s leading crime fiction authors, but she took an unusual route to get there. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her MD. While…
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Die Again by Tess Gerritsen

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The last crime novel that I read which was set in Botswana was one of the No1 Ladies Detective Agency series, written by Alexander McCall Smith and featuring the homespun wisdom of Mma Precious Ramotswe. Die Again opens in the same country but, in contrast, Tess Gerritsen’s…
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Tess Gerritsen launches Alzheimer's appeal

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The crime author Tess Gerritsen, who pioneered the medical thriller sub-genre in the 1990s, and later came up with the Rizzoli & Isles forensic crime series, has launched a fundraiser to help in the fight against Alzheimer’s. Her father died of the disease. Here’s how…
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Forensic mysteries: five of the best

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There’s no denying that forensic science is fascinating in all of its incarnations, a fact made even more obvious by the popularity of television shows such as the CSI franchise, Bones, Dexter, Cold Case, Silent Witness and many others. The human body holds many secrets,…
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