Editor's Comments

One of the amazing things about Tess Gerritsen is how she keys into our most basic fears: in this case, what happens when medical examiner Maura Isles opens a body bag in the city morgue - and the corpse opens her eyes.

This happens more times than one might imagine, according to Tess, a former physician, and no stranger to hospital emergency and autopsy rooms. It's a horrifying thought, and it opens Vanish - which has as its back-story the fate of women smuggled into America from the developing world to become sex slaves - with a jolt.

Featuring medical examiner Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli, now in the final stages of pregnancy, Vanish is a hold-on-for-your-life ride which never lets up until you turn that final page.