Die Meisterdiebin & Angst in deinen Augen

by Tess Gerritsen, Emma Luxx, Patrick Hansen

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Genres: Thriller, Romance, Suspense, Romantic Suspense

Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

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

[Delaney Diamond · Rating 4 out of 5]

Imagine getting dumped at the altar and then right after you leave the church, it's blown to bits. Not a good sign, right? This one starts with a bang and includes a stoic, somewhat grumpy cop who has to find out who's trying to kill the former bride. And of course, there are fireworks between both characters.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lite for Tess Gerritsen - but it was an early Harlequin - but well written and enjoyable..

[Siobhan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tess Gerritsen writes consistently good books. However, for me, the kind of good they are varies depending upon the era they come from. Keeper of the Bride and Thief of Hearts both fall into her romantic thriller category, which is my least favourite category for her work. Don’t get me wrong, they’re both great books, but there is far too much of a romantic focus (as the category title would suggest).

If you’re a fan of all of Geritsen’s work – by that I mean you have read her nineties stuff and not just her Rizzoli and Isles books – then by all means give these two a try. I’m sure you’ll adore them, as I did. However, if you have only read her crime thrillers, be aware that you get something quite different in these books.

There is the consistent mystery across all of her books. You are always trying to uncover some hidden facts. When it comes to her romance thrillers, though, you have a predetermined ending in a number of ways. You get the lead male. You get the lead female. You know they’re going to get a happily ever after – together. It ruins quite a few aspects of the story for me, with attention being focused upon forming a relationship between the two. Why does this relationship need to be formed? Because we have the drama of a relationship that may not work out. Alone the thriller aspects are wonderful, if not short, but with the romantic aspect you have a tale of old that has been done many times before.

Nevertheless, they are still four star books. They are weaker four stars than her Rizzoli and Isles books – the Rizzoli and Isles books are four stars working towards five, for me, whereas these are four stars with the occasional slip into three star territory (mainly through my inability to deal with too much romance at once) – but they are still four stars.

Certainly give them a read if you enjoy Gerritsen.

[Miha · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5/5⭐️

Imaginează ți să ajungi la altar și să primești o scrisoare de la soțul tău care te anunță că nu va veni. Nu e prea plăcut, nu? Iar imediat după ce invitații ies din biserică să aibă loc o explozie - care cel mai probabil te avea pe tine ca țintă
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Prima carte citită de la Tess și mă declar cucerită de stilul ei de scriere. Mi aș fi dorit să încep aventura cu o altă carte de a ei, însă am decis să încep cu aceasta fiindcă este un standalone - celelalte făcând parte dintr o serie (am o bănuială că mi vor plăcea mai mult acelea🫣)
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Deși am vrut un thriller nu am reușit să scap de romance. Mi a plăcut totuși că nu a fost nimic forțat. Sam începuse să mă enerveze la un moment dat că o tot îndepărta pe Nina, dar i am înțeles într un fel deciziile…
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Ritmul e alert și nu ai timp să te plictisești (deși capitolele sunt de 20+ pagini), iar suspansul e nelipsit așa cum mă așteptam + se citește ușor

[Annette · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked up "Thief of Hearts" from Kindle because I had recently read "The Spy Coast" by the same author and quite enjoyed it.
By the time I got to the book I'd already forgotten why I'd initially selected it, and eventually I ended up kicking myself violently for staying with it past the first chapter.
It turned out to be little more than a prosaic, poorly written, and steamy romance with characters and situations you didn't believe and an utterly annoying amount of hand-wringing pathos.
The rest of the plot barely filled a chapter or two.
I may read the next entry in the Martini Club, because it seems like maybe the author has matured and improved a bit since these early titles. But I don't know that I will bother exploring her back catalog.

[Lottie Jones · Rating 3 out of 5]

I can't give more than 3 stars 😞

The Tess that I know with Rizzoli and Gravity and now the Spy Coast is so unbelievably top tier writing.

The mystery and chase of the suspect I liked. However, no way in hell, a woman stood up at the altar is sleeping with a man a few days later and then professing her love for said man.

Not a book for feminists

[Brenda]

I lost the book so never finished. May revisit another time

[Ashleigh Stewart · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked both stories in this book, the last one dragged out a bit. But both very enjoyable.

[denisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

be beginning was good, but i lost interest and became boring by the end

[Dianne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super quick page turning, edge of the seat riveting.
First time with this author but definitely not the last.

[Karan Gerard · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not for me.

[Tom · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had not come across Keeper of the Bride before: an early novel by Gerritsen, where she hadn't quite decided if she wanted to be a romance novelist or a procedural crime writer, and the straddle shows.

In terms of the two genres, the crime works best: when it's really going, it's a gripper (similar to the recent Netflix show The Night Agent, it just keeps ratcheting it up), though when the revelation of why she's being targeted makes you go "Hold on: what?" for a bit (it really doesn't make sense when you stop to think about it, but she doesn't really really give you time to do that) and the baddie's motivations don't make total sense.

In the romance bit, she doesn't quite make it work: there's a bit too much "Tell, don't show", and the two central characters' attraction for each other is spelled out a little too obviously. When they're established, the dialogue and interplay are much better.

One can see, reading this, why she left romance behind and went full out for the police novels. This is effortlessly entertaining (I read it on holiday, in a day, and it does that job excellently), but I suspect that if she went back and rewrote it, the blue pencil might be quite busy.

[Louise Armstrong · Rating 2 out of 5]

I did like the vivid imagery - the bride is abandoned, then the church blows up... great stuff, but there's nothing deep, or moving, or educational or wonderful about this book and I wouldn't read another by the same author.

It was really like a mass-produced romance - Nina gets abandoned at the altar, but it doesn't matter because she was only marrying a doctor to please her mother and the real hero comes along to protect her. Shallow.

[Sharon Layburn · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars
A bride who was left at the altar finds that yes, her day could get worse, when a bomb explodes right where and when she was meant to be exchanging her vows. Especially considering this is a reprint of a book from the 90s, this short romantic suspense novel was a lot of fun and I was happily surprised by the nicely realized mystery and the well balance romance.

[Kay Townsend · Rating 5 out of 5]

As usual with Tess Gerritsen what an absolutely brilliant book. I loved it. I didn't want it to end and I was totally gripped throughout. I haven't read a bad book of her's yet and this definitely was one of her best to date. Would definitely recommend it as a brilliant read.

[Charlotte Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn't put this book dow, I wanted to carry on when I picked it up a few days ago. I put in my bag today with every attention to finish it which I have. A ending that you can see happening but you still don't expect it to happen.

[Barbara Willis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book, full of action and burning passion! Big characters, even though the plot was a little predictable, really liked it. I like her style of writing and must catch up with more of her books.

[Mary · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book reads like a high school romance novel. That goodness I got it found the library, got I didn't pay for it, scanned the last part of the book, just not something I would read.

[Darlene Maternowski · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the book until the last chapter. Seemed to wrap things up too quickly.

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love it. Was fasted paced and from the first chapter I was in. Good suspense novel

[Donna Kass · Rating 3 out of 5]

A light, entertaining suspense

[Jake]

I expected this book to be allot better but it was very drone and predictable. While it was quite enjoyable in certain aspects. I felt that it could have been much better.