Opening line in the book: That boy was watching her again.
Synopsis: Dr Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. As a pathologist in downtown Boston, she has seen more than her share of corpses - many of them victims of murder. But never before as the lifeless body on the medical examiner's table been her own.
There can be no denying the evidence: the dead woman before her and her close friend and colleague Detective Jane Rizzoli is the mirror image of Maura, down to the most intimate physical details. Even more chilling is the discovery that they share the same birth date and blood type. When a DNA test confirms that Maura's mysterious double is in fact her twin sister, an already bizzare murder investigation becomes a disturbing and dangerous excursion into a past full of dark secrets.
Searching for answers, Maura is drawn to a seaside town in Maine where other horrifying surprises await. Even more frighteningly, an unknown murderer is at large on a cross-country killing spree. To stop the violence, and uncover the twisted truth about her own roots, Maura must probe her first living subject: the mother she never knew...
Movie directors have used this storyline numerous times in various movies and television shows, the storyline being the macabre act of burying someone alive in a roughly dug pit or in a dark box and that is why I think the book has a sense of familiarity to it. However, this is Gerritsen we are talking about! Although this book contains less action and is slower paced than usual compared to the first three books in the Rizzoli and Isles thriller series, but it has an equally complicated plot with lots of twists and turns to make a decent and suspenseful read.
I am re-reading this book as an audiobook (read by Lorelei King: one of Audiofile's 'Best Voices of 2008') to diversify my reading habits and to continue with the Rizolli and Isles thriller series in chronological order.
Rating: 3/5
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