Unveiled: Whistleblower / Mirror, Mirror / Lover, Stranger

by Tess Gerritsen (Contributor), Stella Cameron (Contributor), Amanda Stevens (Contributor)

Whistleblower
by Tess Gerritsen

Victor Holland's story sounded like the raving of a man at the brink of madness, but his status as a hunted man was supported by the haunted look in his eyes -- and the bullet hole in his shoulder. One look at his fog-shrouded form told Cathy this sexy stranger needed her help.

Mirror, Mirror
by Stella Cameron

Jack Irving was dangerous, and Lauren tried her hardest to ignore his overtures, until he produced his deadliest weapon . . . a kiss. What did Jack really have in mind? It was time Lauren took control of the situation, and she knew exactly what she had to do!

Lover, Stranger
by Amanda Stevens

Attacked and left for dead, Dr. Ethan Hunter awoke to no memory and a strange face in the mirror. Something in Ethan urged him to protect Grace Donovan from the man she sought -- her sister's killer -- but as the clues unraveled, he began to fear he might be saving her from himself . . .

Genres: Fiction

624 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2002

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

[Debby · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Whistleblower" by Gerritsen - Catherine Weaver is divorced and on her way to her friend Sarah's house in northern CA, when a man stumbles into the road in front of her and begs for hep. She takes him to the hospital and goes on to her friend. The next morning, Sarah and her unborn child have been murdered and Cathy and Victor Holland are on the run - he's a scientist who's uncovered some deadly secrets and the cover-up goes clear up to the White House. All eventually works out.

"Mirror Mirror" by Stella Cameron. Lauren Taylor runs an answering service and is continually used by her ex. Jack Irving runs a family commercial greenhouse and someone is sabotaging it. Lauren is gun shy of "younger" man (2 years when you're 39?) and both have hang-ups from their first marriages. Turns out one of her employees is feeding info to the saboteur - a rival greenhouse family.

"Lover Stranger" by Amanda Stevens - man wakes up with amnesia, a gun shot wound and a dead body. Turns out to be a DEA agent under deep cover in Mexico who's unknowingly been given the fact of the doctor to cover his misdeeds. Didn't finish.

[Merry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tess Gerritsen's Whistleblower held my interest.

[colleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

read 06.27.07