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Tess Gerritsen
  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1987
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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About the Author

Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D.

While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was published. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay, "Adrift", which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.

Now retired from medicine, she writes full time. She lives in Maine.

Full Series List in Order

The Martini Club

1 - The Spy Coast (Nov-2023)
2 - The Summer Guests (Mar-2025)

Maura Isles and Jane Rizzoli

1 - The Surgeon (Sep-2001)
2 - The Apprentice (Aug-2002)
3 - The Sinner (Aug-2003)
4 - Body Double (Aug-2004)
5 - Vanish (Aug-2005)
6 - The Mephisto Club (Sep-2006)
7 - The Keepsake // Keeping the Dead (Sep-2008)
8 - Ice Cold // The Killing Place (Jul-2010)
8.5 - Freaks (Jun-2011)
9 - The Silent Girl (Jul-2011)
9.5 - John Doe (Jul-2012)
10 - Last to Die (Sep-2012)
11 - Die Again (Jan-2015)
12 - I Know a Secret (Aug-2017)
13 - Listen To Me (Jul-2022)

Tavistock Family

1 - In Their Footsteps (Jun-1994)
2 - Thief of Hearts (Jun-1995)

Multi-Author Series List

Her Protector

Keeper of the Bride (Feb-1996)

Book List in Order: 34 titles



  • Sarah was a hunted woman Alone in Europe, on the trail of her missing husband, Sarah Fontaine had walked straight into a nest of spies, counterspies and cold-blooded assassins. They would stop at nothing to find the man she'd known as Geoffrey...



  • Malpractice ... or murder? Dr. Kate Chesne knew that no surgery was ever routine, but when a colleague and friend perished on the operating table during a simple gallbladder extraction, her very profession was threatened. Had she misread an EKG .....



  • Friend...or foe? Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland was taking a trip through hell. Saigon was teeming, hot and dangerous. But her search for the truth about that fateful flig...



  • He emerged from the mist . . . . . right in front of Cathy Weaver's car--running from would-be killers who were rapidly closing in. One look at his fog-shrouded form told Cathy this sexy stranger needed her help. Victor Holland's story sounde...



  • Someone was sleeping in her bed.... But he wasn't really sleeping. He was dead. Miranda Wood hoped it was just a bad dream, but the man had been stabbed with her knife, in her house. And worst of all, he wasn't a stranger. So the nig...



  • Old sins cast long shadows.... Paris, the City of Lights, illuminated a twenty-year-old scandal that Beryl Tavistock's reserved British family had long kept in the dark. Instantly, she was caught in a whirlwind of events that would bring the scand...



  • IF YOU KNEW PEGGY SUE... M.J. Novak, a wisecracking, streetwise medical examiner, thinks she's seen it all. Then a red-haired woman named Peggy Sue mysteriously dies--the first victim of what may be an epidemic. M.J.'s only clue is a matchbook cle...



  • He was a gentleman. . . In tuxedo and bow tie, Jordan Tavistock was the unlikeliest burglar. But when a chum asked him to steal back some X-rated love letters from her ex-lover's estate, he had no choice but to oblige. He never expected to get cau...



  • She was a beautiful bride Or she would have been, had the groom bothered to show up. And then, at the exact moment Nina Cormier would have said 'I do,' the empty church exploded -- sending a loud message that someone was after the bride-to...






  • Boston's Bayside Hospital is a long way from Dr. Abby DiMatteo's humble roots, and she's elated when their elite cardiac transplant team taps her as a potential recruit. But an anguished, life-and-death decision soon jeopardizes her entire career. Sh...



  • The overnight ER rotation at Springer Hospital suits Dr. Toby Harper just fine--until its calm is shattered by a man Toby admits one quiet night. Delirious and in critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain, he barely responds to ...



  • Lapped by the gentle waters of Locust Lake, the resort town of Tranquility, Maine, seems like the perfect spot for Dr. Claire Elliot to shelter her adolescent son, Noah, from the distractions of the big city and the lingering memory of his father's d...



  • A young NASA doctor must combat a lethal microbe that is multiplying in the deadliest of environments--space. Dr. Emma Watson has been training for the adventure of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. But her mission aboard the Internatio...



  • He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, about to awake to a living nightmare. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers to n...



  • It is a boiling hot summer in Boston. 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--a sadistic demand that ends in death. The pattern suggests one man: serial killer ...



  • Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns -- one dead, one critically injured -- victims...



  • Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms the startling fact: the mysterious doppelganger is in fact her twin sister. Now an already bi...



  • A nameless woman appears to be just another body at the morgue--until Boston medical examiner Maura Isles sees the corpse open its eyes. The now-frantic Jane Doe is rushed to the hospital, where with cool precision she shoots a security guard and sei...



  • PECCAVI The Latin phrase 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 the s...






  • 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 discove...



  • For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum. Dubbed "Madam X," the recently rediscovered mummy is, to all appearances, an ancient Egyptian artifact. But medical examiner Maura Is...



  • A spur-of-the-moment ski trip becomes a bone-chilling nightmare when a wrong turn leaves Boston medical examiner Maura Isles marooned -- far from home and help -- in the snowbound Wyoming mountains. Seeking shelter from the cold, she and her travelin...



  • In the murky shadows of Boston’s Chinatown lies a severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed in black, her head nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair -- not human -- cling t...



  • In the murky shadows of Boston's Chinatown lies a severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed in black, her head nearly severed from her body. Two strands of silver hair -- not human --...



  • It should have been a night to remember, but Maura Isles can’t recall a thing. Maura is longing to ditch a ritzy cocktail party, along with her four-inch heels, when a handsome, charming stranger appears. But somewhere between sipping a fresh...



  • For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Two years ago, he barely escaped when his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at fourteen, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family's ma...



  • Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are back -- and they’re going into the wild to find a killer. Die Again is the latest heart-pounding thriller in Tess Gerritsen’s bestselling series, the inspiration behind TNT’s hit show ...



  • In a shadowy antiques shop in Rome, violinist Julia Ansdell happens upon a curious piece of music -- the Incendio waltz -- and is immediately entranced by its unusual composition. Full of passion, torment, and chilling beauty, and seemingly unknown t...



  • Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles -- the inspiration for the smash hit TNT series -- continue their bestselling crime-solving streak, as they pursue a shadowy psychopath keeping secrets and taking lives. Two separate homicides, at different locations, ...






  • A woman trying to outrun her past is drawn to a coastal village in Maine -- and to a string of unsolved murders -- in this novel of romance and psychological suspense from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. After an unspeakable trag...





  • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Rizzoli & Isles are back! From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, this “shocking and fast-paced” (Karin Slaughter) thriller has Jane and Maura investigating a brutal murder with dire imp...



  • A retired CIA operative in small-town Maine tackles the ghosts of her past in this fresh take on the spy thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to ...



Award-Winning Books by Tess Gerritsen

Body Double
2004 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Mystery
Gravity
1999 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Suspense Novel
Never Say Die
1993 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Harlequin Intrigue
The Surgeon
2001 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Suspense Novel
2002 Rita Award -- Romantic Suspense
Vanish
2005 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Suspense Novel
2006 Nero Wolfe Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tess Gerritsen has published 34 books.

The next book by Tess Gerritsen, The Summer Guests, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Tess Gerritsen, Call After Midnight, was published in November 1987.

Yes. Tess Gerritsen has 3 series.