Clear Cut: Under the Knife / Never Say Die

by Tess Gerritsen

UNDER THE KNIFE: For attorney David Ransom, it begins as an open-and-shut case: malpractice. Then Dr Kate Chesne storms into his office, daring him to seek out the truth - that she's being framed. When another patient turns up dead, David starts to believe her.

NEVER SAY DIE: Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland travels to the other side of the world to track his final moves. She recognises the danger in what she's doing, but her search for the truth about that fateful flight is the only thing that matters.

439 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D.

While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was published. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay, "Adrift", which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.

Tess's first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Her suspense novels since then have been: Life Support (1997), Bloodstream (1998), Gravity (1999), The Surgeon (2001), The Apprentice (2002), The Sinner (2003), Body Double (2004), Vanish (2005), The Mephisto Club (2006), and The Bone Garden (2007). Her books have been translated into 31 languages, and more than 15 million copies have been sold around the world.

As well as being a New York Times bestselling author, she has also been a #1 bestseller in both Germany and the UK. She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award (for Vanish) and the Rita Award (for The Surgeon.) Critics around the world have praised her novels as "Pulse-pounding fun" (Philadelphia Inquirer), "Scary and brilliant" (Toronto Globe and Mail), and "Polished, riveting prose" (Chicago Tribune). Publisher Weekly has dubbed her the "medical suspense queen".

Now retired from medicine, she writes full time. She lives in Maine.

Reviews

[Icy Mags · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was honestly drawn by the cover (a bloody knife), the blurbs, and the fact that Tess Gerritsen happens to be a doctor and a writer (WOW). This book has two completely different story lines, one revolved around a medical related lawsuit and the other had something to do with war secrets and conspiracies. I was more keen on reading Under The Knife and it did not disappoint. But Never Say Die also had a really exciting plot. Both had me hanging on a cliff at the end of every chapter and I just could not put the book down. I found the love stories between Kate and David, and Willy and Guy predictable considering that they started hating each other's guts and only to fall madly inlove with each other in the end. Blah. But all in all, the endings and plot twists were perfectly executed. This is the first Tess Gerritsen book I've read and I will be reading more of her books. Found myself a new favorite author :)

[Melinda Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Same as what I said for her other books, there’s an emphasis on helpless females that need assistance from troubled men that makes me unhappy and there’s certainly as very template cut and paste type of story the more of these books you read.

[Lee Bramley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the 2 short stories very different