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Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen
4.0
A successful continuation to the Rizzoli and Isles series
Despite the fact that ICE COLD is the 8th entry in the now mature Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series, Gerritsen has continued to keep her plotting fresh and exciting and allows her two protagonists to continue changing and evolving, presenting themselves as interesting, exciting and realistic, human characters that their fans will care about.
Medical examiner Maura Isles is unhappy. She has self-diagnosed her personality and her love life as staid, hidebound and unexciting, perhaps even futile. Seeing herself as falling into the moribund trap of utter predictability, she attends a medical conference in Wyoming and allows a friend to persuade her to take an impulsive, unscheduled side trip into the winter wilderness of the Wyoming mountain landscape. A massive winter snowstorm forces her and her companions to seek shelter in a creepy, deserted town called Kingdom Come.
Ironically, Maura Isles' feelings about her day to day behaviour being quite predictable, prove reasonably well-founded as her best friend, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, is worried when Isles fails to return home at her scheduled time. Casual inquiries into her friend's unlikely late arrival home soon turn into a full-fledged investigation into her best friend's death when she learns that Isles' badly burnt remains have been discovered by the ruins of their car deep in the Wyoming wilderness.
Gerritsen moves her story from interesting procedural into the realm of a compelling thriller as it soon becomes obvious that Rizzoli is prying open the doors of a cult and looking into the behaviour of its enigmatic but charismatic leader, Jeremiah Goode. ICE COLD is a topical thriller that sheds light onto the all too common real-life examples of cult brainwashing, religious programming, far right wing anti-government militarism, mass suicide and the courage it takes to effect an escape from such a group and undergo the extensive de-programming that is necessary to resume a normal life.
ICE COLD represents one more successful notch in Tess Gerritsen's gun and a continuation in a series that, quite clearly, still has plenty of legs. Highly recommended.
Paul Weiss
Despite the fact that ICE COLD is the 8th entry in the now mature Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series, Gerritsen has continued to keep her plotting fresh and exciting and allows her two protagonists to continue changing and evolving, presenting themselves as interesting, exciting and realistic, human characters that their fans will care about.
Medical examiner Maura Isles is unhappy. She has self-diagnosed her personality and her love life as staid, hidebound and unexciting, perhaps even futile. Seeing herself as falling into the moribund trap of utter predictability, she attends a medical conference in Wyoming and allows a friend to persuade her to take an impulsive, unscheduled side trip into the winter wilderness of the Wyoming mountain landscape. A massive winter snowstorm forces her and her companions to seek shelter in a creepy, deserted town called Kingdom Come.
Ironically, Maura Isles' feelings about her day to day behaviour being quite predictable, prove reasonably well-founded as her best friend, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, is worried when Isles fails to return home at her scheduled time. Casual inquiries into her friend's unlikely late arrival home soon turn into a full-fledged investigation into her best friend's death when she learns that Isles' badly burnt remains have been discovered by the ruins of their car deep in the Wyoming wilderness.
Gerritsen moves her story from interesting procedural into the realm of a compelling thriller as it soon becomes obvious that Rizzoli is prying open the doors of a cult and looking into the behaviour of its enigmatic but charismatic leader, Jeremiah Goode. ICE COLD is a topical thriller that sheds light onto the all too common real-life examples of cult brainwashing, religious programming, far right wing anti-government militarism, mass suicide and the courage it takes to effect an escape from such a group and undergo the extensive de-programming that is necessary to resume a normal life.
ICE COLD represents one more successful notch in Tess Gerritsen's gun and a continuation in a series that, quite clearly, still has plenty of legs. Highly recommended.
Paul Weiss