Book Review - The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen

Title: The Apprentice
Series: Rizzoli & Isles (Book # 2)
Author: Tess Gerritsen
 
Description: It is a boiling hot summer. 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 aduction and death. The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city’s streets.
 
Review: Again a wonderfully exciting book by Tess Gerritsen. “The Apprentice” is the sequel to “The Surgeon”, which could also be read on its own. But a little inside information is better though. In the ‘prequel’ detective Rizzoli and detective Moore had to deal with horrific murders of women, who were raped and eventually had their uterus surgically removed. The killer, Warren Hoyt, is now locked up.
 
This time Rizzoli is back, without Moore. She gets a call about a murder in Newton. When she finds the lifeless body of a man there, she things of an ordinary murder. But when detective Korsak shows her the couple’s bedroom, she Rizzoli almost knows for sure this is no ordinary murder. Everything points to Warren Hoyt, but her is behind bars. So it must be a copycat.
 
Jane Rizzoli is an interesting character and where in “The Surgeon” the focus was more on Moore, it’s Rizzoli who leads the investigation in “The Apprentice”. And I loved that. I felt like I got to know her better and understood her more.
 
Like its predecessor, “The Apprentice” is a book that keeps you on the edge of your seat and it’s a real page-turner. If you like crime or detective stories, Tess Gerritsen’s books are recommended.
 
Rating: 4/ 5