Body Double

Maura Isles is a Boston pathologist who spends her days examining the victims of violent crime. Then she finds herself on her own autopsy table: a woman shot dead near Maura's home looks exactly like her, and shares her birth date and blood type. Detective Jane Rizzoli is among those working the case, and Maura, an only child, cannot accept the obvious explanation until DNA testing supports it. The investigation pulls her into a buried family history full of dark secrets.

The search for answers leads Maura to a seaside town in Maine, where further unsettling discoveries await. Meanwhile, an unidentified killer is moving across the country, leaving a trail of bodies. To halt the killings and learn the truth about her origins, Maura must approach the one person who can explain it, a mother she has never known. That woman is cold and calculating, and she may be connected to Maura's existence in ways that threaten her life.

This is a suspense novel in the Rizzoli & Isles series by Tess Gerritsen, a New York Times bestselling author also known for The Surgeon and The Sinner. It blends forensic detail with a personal mystery and a serial killer hunt, and will appeal to readers of medical thrillers and police procedurals.