The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen
The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen is a lot more mystical than the rest of the books in the Rizzoli and Isles series. The story is set in Boston's Chinatown and starts with a group of tourists finding a severed hand. The clues lead Boston cop Jane Rizzoli to a murder/suicide that happened in a Chinatown restaurant 19 years earlier--which may not have actually happened the way everyone thinks it did--and a series of missing girls. It's a good mystery with a Chinese accent.
As an aside, it's funny to see what changes when characters from books (Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles) become characters on a TV show. On TV, Rizzoli and Isles are best friends, not so much in the books. On TV, Rizzoli is a beloved member of the police force. In the books, she had to fight her way up to being accepted as a Homicide detective. The biggest difference is the character of Maura Isles, who's known as the Ice Queen in the books and is kind of warm and fuzzy on TV. I wonder what the author thinks about all this--or if she's just happy that her books are being more widely read because of the TV show.
As an aside, it's funny to see what changes when characters from books (Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles) become characters on a TV show. On TV, Rizzoli and Isles are best friends, not so much in the books. On TV, Rizzoli is a beloved member of the police force. In the books, she had to fight her way up to being accepted as a Homicide detective. The biggest difference is the character of Maura Isles, who's known as the Ice Queen in the books and is kind of warm and fuzzy on TV. I wonder what the author thinks about all this--or if she's just happy that her books are being more widely read because of the TV show.
Julie, have you read any in the Aurelio Zen series by Michael Dibdin? He is my new favorite detective on Masterpiece Mystery. Just wondering about the books... Gini
ReplyDeleteNo I have not. But I will look for them at the library. Thanks for the suggestion. J.
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