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Title: The Keepsake: A Novel
ISBN: 0345497627
Author:
Tess Gerritsen
Publicate Date: 2008-09-09
Publish: 2008-09-09
List Price: $26.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Another Hit!
No one does it quite like Gerritsen! Her main characters, Maura Isles (medical examiner) and Jane Rizzoli (detective) are not just hero type characters who solve crime. Both are women who have issues and who have evolved and continue to evolve throughout the series on a personal level. Take that, and add in gruesome murders, forensic and medical details, some history and you have a winner. I used to be a fan of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta, but Tess Gerritsen has kicked Cornwell off of my reading list and replaced Scarpetta with Dr. Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli.
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2: "The Keepsake" a review
Tess Gerritsens 'The Keepsake' was a decent enough read with some interesting and unexpected twists in the plot. However it was quite slow paced and ,dare I say it, even a tad boring in places. Points were quite laboured and the majority of the book had to read before anything of major significance happened. A series of barely hinted at clues left me infuriated and I feel that lead characters should have been more involved than they turned out to be. This is not a bad book by any stretch of the imagination and it is well worth a read so long as the reader is prepared to be patient with it.
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3: Another good one in the Rizzoli and Isles series......
I won't restate the plot...Suffice to say, I liked this one - a good thriller without the usual dose of romance that ruins many a book for me. The mystery was intriguing, the archeological facts very interesting - including asides about mummification procedures, the process for shrinking heads, and the science associated with bog bodies. The story moved along at a very fast pace and it was easy to read this one in a sitting. The two female protagonists were busy doing what they do best - investigating an unusual case with intuition and clever deduction. The threads of the case were all tied up at the end despite some red herrings and I look forward to the next in the series. Recommend: BUY!
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4: Worth losing sleep for
First Sentence: He is coming for me.
A 2000-year-old mummy has been discovered in the basement of the Crespin Museum in Boston. With much fanfare and publicity, it has been brought to Pilgrim Hospital for CT scan analysis. Dr. Maura Isles, on of those in attendance, soon realizes something is amiss. The corpse within has a modern dental filling and a bullet in her leg.
The mummy is transferred to the morgue and the case assigned to Det. Jane Rizzoli. When a second, then third corpse that has been transformed into the appearance of an ancient artifact the police realize something is out of sync with archeologist Joesphine Pulcillo, working at the museum and the focus of the artifacts.
There is a blurb on the back cover of the book which says "...likely to keep you reading into the wee hours..." Well, it certainly did that. I should know by now that a book by Gerritsen is one I have to finish the same day I start it.
She know how to hook you in, take you down a very twisty road, build the suspense and keep you going to the very last sentence. Gerritsen's medical background was in evidence through the details of ancient forms of mummification offset by present-day forensic methods. I also enjoyed the historical and archeological information, both of those being fascinating to me.
The characters are interesting and fully developed. Jane Rizzola is a tough New Yorker, married and a mother; Maura Iles is refined, elegant and in a hopeless relationship. A common theme among the characters was self-delusion--wanting what you can't have. This theme was well-played in the story with a subtlety that offset the violence. Her dialogue and sense of place supported this theme.
Gerritsen is a very good writer and always a sleepless pleasure to read.
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5: Egypt/Murder/Hiding/Museum
This was a good book, shocking that Maura didn't have a huge part in this book, but I really liked Josephine & Medea. The bond, running, and looking over your shoulder constantly. The book had a number of twists and turns and it was really good. Where do these authors pick up these ideas for their next pyschopaths??? LoL Can't wait for her next book!!
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