18 books like The Surgeon

What to read after The Surgeon — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Mephisto Club Tess Gerritsen · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 379p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman’s brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It’s a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O’Donnell–Jane’s professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club. On top of Beacon Hill, the… Shares: Detective Rizzoli, Serial murder investigation, Boston, Serial murders

The Sinner Tess Gerritsen · 2003 · ★ 4.4 · 355p · ≈ 11h · Moderate From the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Apprentice comes a chilling new novel of suspense featuring Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles, on the deadly trail of an anonymous madman who's committed an unholy crime....THE SINNERNot even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered in the early morning hours… Shares: Detective Rizzoli, Forensic pathologists, Serial murder investigation, Women detectives

Dark Harbour David Hosp · 2005 · ★ 3.8 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate When his former lover is killed, a lawyer is drawn into a murder investigation alongside a female detective in this debut thriller.When the body of his co-worker and ex-lover is found in Boston Harbor, attorney Sean Finn becomes a suspect in her murder. With an ambitious female police detective after answers, Finn is unaware of what's at stake if the truth about the killing is finally uncovered. Shares: Meurtres en série, Serial murder investigation, Boston, Serial murders

Body Double Tess Gerritsen · 2004 · ★ 3.5 · 358p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match--and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations--in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner.Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more than her share of corpses… Shares: Detective Rizzoli, Forensic pathologists, Serial murder investigation, Women detectives

Vanish (Jane Rizzoli, Book 5) Tess Gerritsen · 2005 · ★ 4.5 · 355p · ≈ 11h · Moderate If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. A chilling Rizzoli and Isles thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.The beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. But when medical examiner Maura Isles looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life.The corpse opens its eyes.Now very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where she murders a security… Shares: Detective Rizzoli, Boston, Women detectives, Police

The Chemistry of Death Simon Beckett · 2006 · ★ 4.2 · 437p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Three years ago, David Hunter moved to rural Norfolk to escape his life in London, his gritty work in forensics, and a tragedy that nearly destroyed him. Working as a simple country doctor, seeing his lost wife and daughter only in his dreams, David struggles to remain uninvolved when the corpse of a woman is found in the woods, a macabre sign from her killer decorating her body. In one… Shares: Meurtres en série, Serial murder investigation, Serial murders, Thriller

There But For the Grace of God Fred Rosen · 2007 · ★ 3.0 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Moderate They stared into the faces of pure evil . . . and survived!Ted Bundy . . . Jeffrey Dahmer . . .David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz . . . Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer . . .These are some of the names that strike terror into even the bravest of hearts. Human monsters, they preyed upon the unsuspecting, freely feeding their terrible hungers. Their crimes were unspeakable, as they maimed, tortured, killed,… Shares: Meurtres en série, Serial murders

Aftermath Peter Robinson · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Number 35 The Hill is a house in an ordinary street, owned by an apparently ordinary young couple. When constables Janet Taylorand Dennis Morrisey are sent to the house following a report ofa disturbance, they stumble upon a truly horrific scene. Shares: Serial murder investigation, Serial murders, Police, Thriller

The Bone Garden Tess Gerritsen · 2007 · ★ 4.4 · 528p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Unknown bones, untold secrets, and unsolved crimes from the distant past cast ominous shadows on the present in the dazzling new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil--human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston… Shares: Forensic pathologists, Boston, Serial murders, Thriller

Triptych Karin Slaughter · 2006 · ★ 4.1 · 396p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A superb stand-alone thriller by the #1 bestselling author of FaithlessWhen Atlanta police detective Michael Ormewood is called out to a murder scene at the notorious Grady Homes, he finds himself faced with one of the the most brutal killings of his career: Aleesha Monroe is found in the stairwell in a pool of her own blood, her body horribly mutilated.As a one-off killing it's shocking, but… Shares: Meurtres en série, Serial murder investigation, Serial murders, Thriller

13 Steps Down Ruth Rendell · 2004 · ★ 3.7 · 410p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions--supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering at least eight women. Gwendolen Chawcer, Mix's eighty-year-old landlady has few interests beside her old books and her new tenant.… Shares: Meurtres en série, Serial murders, Thriller, Mystery

The Vanished Man Jeffery Deaver · 2003 · ★ 4.1 · 511p · ≈ 17h · Moderate "It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. When a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot, they break down the door. The room is empty." "Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving… Shares: Forensic pathologists, Serial murder investigation, Police, Mystery

The Devil's Star Jo Nesbø · ★ 4.5 Detective Harry Hole: an angry and off-the-rails detective who wants to play the game by his own rules. A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star – a pentagram, the devil's star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom… Shares: Serial murder investigation, Serial murders, Police, Mystery

The Dante Club Matthew Pearl · 2003 · ★ 3.5 · 386p · ≈ 12h · Moderate NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Before The Dante Chamber, there was The Dante Club: “an ingenious thriller that . . . brings Dante Alighieri’s Inferno to vivid, even unsettling life.”—The Boston Globe “With intricate plots, classical themes, and erudite characters . . . what’s not to love?”—Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Origin Boston, 1865. The literary geniuses of the Dante Club—poets… Shares: Serial murder investigation, Boston, Serial murders

Point of Origin Patricia Cornwell · 1998 · ★ 4.4 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Moderate From the author of Unnatural Exposure and Cause of Death comes a new Kay Scarpetta novel that pits Virginia's chief medical examiner against an audacious and wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes. And when Scarpetta learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, is somehow involved, the investigation gets personal and tragedy strikes closer to home. Shares: Forensic pathologists, Serial murder investigation, Women detectives, Mystery

As Death Draws Near Anna Lee Huber · 2016 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "The latest mystery from the national bestselling author of A Study in Death tangles Lady Kiera Darby and Sebastian Gage in a dangerous web of religious and political intrigue. July 1831. In the midst of their idyllic honeymoon in England's Lake District, Kiera and Gage's seclusion is interrupted by a missive from Kiera's new father-in-law. A deadly incident involving a distant relative of the… Shares: Serial murder investigation, Serial murders

Killing Time Linda Howard · 2005 · ★ 4.3 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Returning to the entrancing supernatural territory of her popular novels Dream Man and Son of the Morning, New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard has written a sizzling new novel that is her most daring, exciting, and original yet. In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years… Shares: Women detectives, Serial murders, Thriller, Mystery

Hangman Stephan Talty · 2014 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Pursuing an escaped serial killer to the city limits of Buffalo, homicide detective Abbie Kearney is horrified when teenage girls begin to go missing, a situation that reveals precinct corruption and suggests that the killer is being helped. Shares: Serial murder investigation, Serial murders

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