Gerritsen, Tess
Entry updated 19 December 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of US physician and author Terry Gerritsen (1953- ), active from around 1985, most of whose works have been medical thrillers, mostly nonfantastic, many of them included in the Rizzoli & Isles sequence featuring a detective and a forensic pathologist, which begins with The Surgeon (2001); of this series, The Mephisto Club (2006) [listed below] is an exercise in the supernatural.
Among her singletons of genre interest, Bloodstream (1988) centres on a parasite (see Parasitism and Symbiosis) seemingly native to a lake which causes the humans it invades to act violently. The Shape of Night (2019) is a ghost story. The Near Future Gravity (1999), about a mysterious illness (originating in micro-organisms found in a meteor) that has invaded a Space Station, fuses sf and forensic Medicine with considerable competence. [JC]
Terry Gerritsen
born San Diego, California: 12 June 1953
works (highly selected)
series
Rizzoli & Isles (relevant title only)
- The Mephisto Club (New York: Ballantine Books, 2006) [Rizzoli & Isles: hb/Ron Koeberer]
individual titles
- Bloodstream (New York: Pocket Books, 1988) [hb/]
- Gravity (New York: Pocket Books, 1999) [hb/Joseph Perez]
- The Bone Garden (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007) [hb/]
- Playing with Fire (New York: Ballantine Books, 2015) [hb/]
- The Shape of Night (New York: Ballantine Books, 2019) [hb/]
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