The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles)

“Suspense doesn't get smarter than this. Not just recommended but mandatory.”—Lee Child

When a hand is found in a Chinatown alley in downtown Boston, detective Jane Rizzoli climbs to a nearby roof-top and finds the hand's owner – a woman whose throat has been slashed so deeply that her head is nearly severed. Two strands of silver hair cling to her body. They are Rizzoli's only clues, but they're enough for her and pathologist Maura Isles to make a startling discovery .

This violent death had a chilling prequel. Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead.
But one woman connected to that massacre is still alive: a mysterious and beautiful martial arts master who knows a secret that lives and breathes in the shadows of Chinatown.

It soon becomes clear that this is an evil that has killed before and will kill again – unless Jane and Maura can track it down, and defeat it …

Reviews

“Suspense doesn't get smarter than this. Not just recommended but mandatory.”—Lee Child

“She did it to me again! I can't get anything done when Tess puts out a new book and this one caught me as I was starting work on Season 2 of "Rizzoli & Isles.” So instead of memorizing my lines, I was sucked up into Boston's Chinatown with Jane, Maura, and company and could not put this one down. Just like the other books. Every time.
And to top it off, now I have to wait for the NEXT one to come out–you're killing me, Tess! So good…"—Lorraine Bracco

“[A] deft thriller.”—Publisher’s Weekly

“[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior do dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.”—Chicago Tribune

About the Author

Bestselling author Tess Gerritsen is also a physician, and she brings to her novels her first-hand knowledge of emergency and autopsy rooms. But her interests span far more than medical topics. As an anthropology student at Stanford University, she catalogued centuries-old human remains, and she continues to travel the world driven by her fascination with ancient cultures and bizarre natural phenomena. She lives with her husband in Maine.