But in the very first chapter, while sending a coded radio message from his room, he's surprised by his landlady and swiftly kills her with a stiletto stab. The year is 1944 and Faber claims to be a traveling salesman. It introduced me to a quiet and unassuming gentleman named Henry Faber, who lives in a London lodging house. So I chose a book off the shelf, a World War II spy thriller called Eye Of The Needle by Ken Follett. The house had a stash of paperback novels left behind by earlier doctors, and on those quiet tropical nights, there wasn't much else to do but read. In 1981, I was working as a doctor on the island of Ponape in the South Pacific, living in a house provided by the local hospital. Read An Excerpt Recommended Thriller: 'Eye Of The Needle' By Ken Follett Below, read Gerritsen's recommendation of Ken Follett's Eye of the Needle.
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Gerristen talks with NPR's Michele Norris about watching horror films with her mother and the authors who have inspired her: Helen MacInnes, Daphne du Maurier and Ken Follett. Spock of the pair a medical examiner who wants to understand the logic of why things happen. Gerristen says writing the books in the Rizzoli & Isles series has helped her explore aspects of her own personality: Rizzoli is an outsider, working as a female homicide detective in an otherwise all-male unit. Rizzoli & Isles, a new television show based on Gerritsen's novels, debuts Monday night on TNT. She is now the author of more than 15 thrillers, eight of which detail the cases of Jane Rizzoli, a police detective, and Maura Isles, a medical examiner.
Tess Gerritsen wasn't always a thriller writer - she was on maternity leave from her job as a physician when she began to write fiction. In our series Thrilled to Death, suspense writers talk with us about their work, and then recommend the books they love. Rizzoli & Isles, a television show based on her best-selling thriller series, premieres Monday night on TNT. Urn:oclc:870443345 Republisher_date 20130105065525 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120924025359 Scanner Gerritsen is a physician and writer. OL1914088W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.81 Pages 390 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0451124308 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:33:41 Boxid IA1397524 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Date-raw AugDonorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier
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