The Bone Garden, Tess Gerritsen
The Bone Garden, Tess Gerritsen
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The Bone Garden

Author: Tess Gerritsen

Narrator: Susan Denaker

Unabridged: 12 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/18/2007

Synopsis

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 medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder.

Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, medical student Norris Marshall has joined the ranks of local “resurrectionists”–those who plunder graveyards and harvest the dead for sale on the black market. But when a distinguished doctor is found murdered and mutilated on university grounds, Norris finds that trafficking in the illicit cadaver trade has made him a prime suspect.

With unflagging suspense and pitch-perfect period detail, The Bone Garden deftly traces the dark mystery at its heart across time and place to a finale as ingeniously conceived as it is shocking.

About Tess Gerritsen

It is pretty rare for someone to achieve a Medical Doctor degree, become a practicing physician, and a very successful author. That is the career path followed by Tess Gerritsen, an internationally bestselling author. Tess graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Anthropology, then her MD. from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. From there, began her interesting journey.

Tess went to work as a physician in Honolulu, Hawaii, and during a maternity leave from that job, she wrote her first romantic suspense novel, Call After Midnight, which was followed by eight other such novels. She also wrote a screenplay, Adrift, which became a 1993 CBS movie starring Kate Jackson.

The author then began writing medical thrillers in 1996, with her novel, Harvest, which was her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. More than 15 books in the medical suspense genre followed. They were all aptly named, such as.....Life Support, Bloodstream, The Surgeon, The Bone Garden, and several others. Her books have been published in many countries, with over 30 million copies being sold internationally.

Tess Gerritsen's series of novels featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the very successful TNT television series, Rizzoli and Isles. She is now retired from medicine, and continues to write full time from her home in Maine.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Tina on 2008-08-26 22:10:33

This was a great book. I read it in a day. Tess Gerritsen has become one of my favorite authors. She never fails to capture my attention and keep it. If you love mysteries this is a great read.

Goodreads review by Paul on January 18, 2023

A solid, gripping, historical mystery! Tess Gerritsen's THE BONE GARDEN is a thoroughly entertaining, historical thriller that begins with the admittedly prosaic literary device of divorcée Julia Hamill finding a human skeleton buried in the back yard of her recently purchased century home in Boston.......more

Goodreads review by Tina on August 14, 2017

This was a great story about a lady who buys a house and discovers bones of a body that were long buried there. The book flops between past and present which is one of my favourite types of stories. The story in the past involves a historical medical mystery, that revolves around love and courage th......more

Goodreads review by Laurel on April 18, 2008

A page-turner historical fiction/whodunit with some fascinating (and gruesome) glimpses of early 1800s medical school training in the US. Written by a physician - a quick read that will make you grateful you live now instead of then! One of the characters is Oliver Wendell Holmes, not the Supreme Co......more

Goodreads review by Cym on February 19, 2023

Book 13/100 for the 2023 Goodreads Challenge. Was really wanting a solid, dependable novel to read so went back to another Gerritsen book that I've had for some time. So glad I chose The Bone Garden because it was phenomenally written: the historical accuracy, the precise medical detail (PUKE 🤮AT THE......more

Goodreads review by Rainz on September 09, 2021

The Bone Garden is surprisingly a historical thriller. I have been so used to her Rizzoli and Isles series of books that the Bone Garden felt a totally different author. Told in dual timelines of the present and the 1830s the Bone Garden takes us to an era where being in a hospital was akin to signi......more

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Praise for The Mephisto Club

“Equally fascinating and horrifying . . . The pages seem to turn themselves.”
–The Boston Globe

“Powerful . . . white-knuckle suspense at its finest.”
–Mississippi Clarion-Ledger

“A potpourri of thrills.”
–Orlando Sentinel

“A tale that will keep readers feverishly turning pages.”
–Newsday

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