![]() ![]() Rizzoli gets a new love interest (Hoyt killed her last one, in The Surgeon), an FBI agent, which is handled with realism and subtlety, but her fuming at man's inhumanity to woman may grate on male readers. The novel is suspenseful and stuffed with an encyclopedia's worth of tightly detailed forensic lore. Hoyt escapes and links up with the Dominator, and it's no surprise that Rizzoli is their number one target. ![]() Eventually it's revealed that Hoyt and the Dominator have contacted one another by mail. Rizzoli notes connections between the Dominator's handiwork and that of Hoyt, and visits Hoyt behind bars. The discovery of the corpse of one of the Dominator's victims in a ritzy Boston suburb gets the action moving. Her nemesis, serial killer Warren Hoyt, aka the Surgeon, whom Rizzoli sent to prison, returns here, too that's not so terrific, as he's basically a Hannibal Lecter clone, though Gerritsen does pair him up this time with a second serial killer, known among cops as the Dominator. It's a smart move, as in that novel this popular author introduced a terrific lead character, Jane Rizzoli, a female Boston homicide detective who rivals Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta for intensity and complexity. For the first time since she moved from mass market originals to hardcover (with 1996's Harvest), Gerritsen offers a sequel-to last year's bestselling The Surgeon. ![]()
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