The Apprentice: A Rizzoli Isles Novel-Fast Shipping

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Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the hit TNT series—continue their crime-solving streak.

The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns—and so does that chilling novel’s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly.

It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city’s woes isa series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wivesare brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death.

The patternsuggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city’s can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on thetwisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. At least that’s what DetectiveJane Rizzoli thinks. Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her—literallyand figuratively—she is determined to finally end Hoyt’s awful influence . . . evenif it means receiving more resistance from her all-male homicide squad.

But Rizzoliisn’t counting on the U.S. government’s sudden interest. Or on meeting Special AgentGabriel Dean, who knows more than he will tell. Most of all, she isn’t counting onbecoming a target herself, once Hoyt is suddenly free, joining his mysterious bloodbrother in a vicious vendetta. . . .

Filled with superbly created characters—andthe medical and police procedural details that are her trademark—The Apprentice isTess Gerritsen at her brilliant best. Set in a stunning world where evil is easyto learn and hard to end, this is a thriller by a master who could teach other authorsa thing or two.