Tess Gerritsen
Hardcover | Pages: 370 pages Rating: 4.04 | 24169 Users | 1994 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Bone Garden |
| ISBN: | 0593057775 (ISBN13: 9780593057773) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Dr. Maura Isles, Julia Hamill, Norris Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Setting: | Boston, Massachusetts(United States) |
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Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whoever this nameless woman was, and whatever befell her, is knowledge lost to another time. . . .Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, Norris Marshall, a talented but penniless student at Boston Medical College, has joined the ranks of local “resurrectionists”–those who plunder graveyards and harvest the dead for sale on the black market. Yet even this ghoulish commerce pales beside the shocking murder of a nurse found mutilated on the university hospital grounds. And when a distinguished doctor meets the same grisly fate, Norris finds that trafficking in the illicit cadaver trade has made him a prime suspect.
To prove his innocence, Norris must track down the only witness to have glimpsed the killer: Rose Connolly, a beautiful seamstress from the Boston slums who fears she may be the next victim. Joined by a sardonic, keenly intelligent young man named Oliver Wendell Holmes, Norris and Rose comb the city–from its grim cemeteries and autopsy suites to its glittering mansions and centers of Brahmin power–on the trail of a maniacal fiend who lurks where least expected . . . and who waits for his next lethal opportunity.
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| Title | : | The Bone Garden |
| Author | : | Tess Gerritsen |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 370 pages |
| Published | : | January 14th 2008 by Bantam (first published September 18th 2007) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Thriller. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Crime |
Rating Containing Books The Bone Garden
Ratings: 4.04 From 24169 Users | 1994 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books The Bone Garden
Yay new shelf! So this is what I'm gonna call a "kitchen sink" book. Meaning Ms. Tess Gerritsen decided to throw everything and the kitchen sink into this pretty average but well written mystery. We've got;1.)A modern day heroine going through a difficult divorce that is ENTIRELY the fault of her awful husband who's bought a fixer upper that of COURSE has a body in the backyard. Oh no!!!! How did that happen!? There's something weird going on around here!2.)And of course said body is a fewA page-turner historical fiction/whodunit with some fascinating (and gruesome) glimpses of early 1800s medical school training in the US. Written by a physician - a quick read that will make you grateful you live now instead of then! One of the characters is Oliver Wendell Holmes, not the Supreme Court judge, but his father, who, in 1843, introduced a new practice to American medicine in an attempt to control "childbed fever"...suggesting that physicians wash their hands between patients.
At first, I was quite perplexed over the present day/historical split as the present day story seemed thin with the majority of the tale taking place in the 1830's. In the end, the story came full circle, providing that connection for the characters in both eras. I thought the details regarding medicine of the 1800's was fantastically gruesome and superbly done (and as many other reviews have stated, made me VERY happy to be a woman today!) with descriptions so rich your could almost smell the
This book sat on my bookshelf collecting dust and may have still been there if it hadn't been for the Geocaching challenge. I'm so glad that I didn't leave it to sit any longer.One of Tess Gerritsen's medical mystery collection, the story is split between the present day and 1830. When Julia digs up a skeleton in her newly acquired garden, she unearths a 200 year old mystery. I really enjoyed the story about a young medical student in 1830's Boston. Secondary to the mystery was the medical
This was a great story about a lady who buys a house and discovers bones of a body that were long buried there. The book flops between past and present which is one of my favourite types of stories. The story in the past involves a historical medical mystery, that revolves around love and courage that draws together the present story. Definitely a 5 star!
THE BONE GARDEN (Mys/Hist/Cont- Mass- 1830/Cont) G+Gerritsen, Tess StandaloneBallantine Books, 2007, US Hardcover ISBN: 9780345497604First Sentence: Dearest Margaret, I thank you for your kind condolences, so sincerely offered, for the loss of my darling Amelia.Newly divorced, Julia Hamill is working on the garden of her new home in rural Massachusetts when she uncovers a skull a woman who Dr. Maura Isles determines was murdered. That revelation, and contact from the former owners elderly
This is my second foray into Tess Gerritsen's books. I enjoyed about eighty percent of this one. As anyone who has read The Bone Garden, they can guess which eighty percent I'm talking about.I really don't see what the present day tie in had to do with the story. Essentially (not really a spoiler), a woman buys a house, finds a skull when gardening. The famous Maura Isles shows up, appears on two pages to tell the reader she has nothing to do with the story. The rest of the present day segments
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