Reviews of "The Sinner"
THE DROOD REVIEW:
Moves at a heart-pounding pace without a word wasted. Gerritsen just keeps getting
better with each book.
BOOKLIST:
When two Boston nuns are found brutally beaten--one fatally and one with a scintilla
of life left in her--it's up to homicide detective Jane Rizzoli to find the
perpetrator. Medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles, nicknamed the Queen of the Dead,
has the unlucky fortune to discover that the murdered nun, a young woman about
to make her final vows, hid untold secrets from the rest of the aging convent.
Both fallen Catholics, Rizzoli and Isles seek to reconcile the viciousness of
the crimes with the seeming blind faith of the victims. Another dead body turns
up, and the investigators must rely on their clinical analysis, lest they be
sucked in to the drama unfolding before them. Each woman immerses herself in
her work rather than face the outside world; Rizzoli refuses to face the truth
of what her future holds, and Isles denies her own loneliness. Woven within
the horror of this gruesome story is the old allegory of good versus evil, but
by relating it through these two fascinating individuals, Gerritsen avoids cliches.
Another captivating, horrific thriller in her extremely popular canon.
-- Mary Frances Wilkens
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