It also turns out that her biological mother is currently serving a life sentence in a woman’s prison for the murder of two women, one of which was pregnant. It seems she was put up for adoption with her twin sister for the price of $20,000 each. Isles has been adopted but it is only now that we explore this avenue of her life. We have know since The Apprentice that Dr. While this in itself is a horrifying discovery, Maura finds herself to be seeing a woman whom is identical to her. Obviously curious as to what has occurred, she enters into the throng of police to discover a dead woman outside her house. (I sure wish my work took me to Paris for conferences!) When she returns home, she finds her street completely cut off with police. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed the Rizzoli and Isles series and I am glad that there is a new one out for me to sink my teeth into. an icy and cunning woman who could be responsible for giving Maura life–and who just may have a plan to take it away.Yes fair readers, another Tess Gerritsen book! Rizzoli and Isles are back in the Body Double and we find out more about Maura Isles in this instalment. To stop the massacre and uncover the twisted truth about her own roots, Maura must probe her first living subject: the mother that she never knew. But perhaps more frightening, an unknown murderer is at large on a cross-country killing spree. Searching for answers, Maura is drawn to a seaside town in Maine where other horrifying surprises await. And when a DNA test confirms that Maura’s mysterious doppelgänger is in fact her twin sister, an already bizarre murder investigation becomes a disturbing and dangerous excursion into a past full of dark secrets. For the stunned Maura, an only child, there can be just one explanation. Even more chilling is the discovery that they share the same birth date and blood type. Yet there can be no denying the mind-reeling evidence before her shocked eyes and those of her colleagues, including Detective Jane Rizzoli: the woman found shot to death outside Maura’s home is the mirror image of Maura, down to the most intimate physical nuances. Because never before has the lifeless body on the medical examiner’s table been her own. But never before has her blood run cold, and never has the grim expression “dead ringer” rung so terrifyingly true. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more than her share of corpses every day–many of them victims of violent murder. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. Maura Isles literally meets her match–and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations–in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner.

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