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At the start of this disappointing stand-alone thriller from bestseller Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club), 38-year-old divorcée Julia Hamill discovers a skeleton buried in the garden of the Boston house she's just moved into; the ring found with the remains was in fashion in the 1830s, the fractured bones suggest murder. Flashback to 1830: medical student Norris Marshall, an outcast among his wealthier classmates, meets Rose Connolly in a Boston maternity ward, where Rose's sister recently died of childbirth fever. When several gutted bodies turn up in deserted alleyways, Rose and Norris are the only ones to catch a glimpse of the killer, dubbed the West End Reaper. Norris, Rose and Norris's fellow student, Oliver Wendell Holmes, race to uncover the truth behind the slayings, which will remind many of Jack the Ripper's crimes. In the present, Julia is able to trace their progress with the help of a relative of the house's former owner. Unfortunately, neither the present nor the historical story line maintains the suspense necessary for a whodunit spanning several generations. (Sept.)
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Julia Hamill finds an old skull buried in the garden of her newly acquired Boston home. A forensic anthropologist determines that it belongs to a murder victim, circa 1800. The story flashes back to 1830, when a killer known as the West End Reaper is terrorizing the area. Susan Denaker narrates with skill and animation even when the predictable, coincidence-prone story lose immediacy. She provides expert voices for Rose Connolly, a poor Irish seamstress; Norris Marshall, a medical student forced by poverty to assist an immoral resurrectionist (a grave robber supplying cadavers for medical study); and Henry Page, an 89-year-old archivist helping Julia. Denakers performance makes listening worthwhile, although fans wont find many thrills in Gerritsens latest. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --Ce texte provient de la Audio CD édition.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 A solid gripping historical mystery!, Oct. 10 2009
Par Paul Weiss (Dundas, Ontario Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Bone Garden: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
Tess Gerritsen's "The Bone Garden" is a thoroughly entertaining, historical thriller that begins with the admittedly prosaic literary device of divorcée Julia Hamill finding a human skeleton buried in the back yard of her recently purchased century home in Boston. The local forensic examiner makes the determination that the skeleton was a female who had been brutally murdered over 100 years earlier. Naturally, Hamill's concern and curiosity is aroused. When a neighbour suggests she seek the help of an elderly relative of the former owner of the home who had kept boxes and boxes of old photos, newspaper clippings and personal correspondence, Julia finds herself enamoured with the story of the lives of the people from Boston's past and positively riveted with the possibility of finding the truth behind a murder that had taken place a century and a half ago.

The story, revealed to the reader in the form of flashbacks, alternates with the progress that Julia Hamill and her newfound elderly friend make in their historical researches into the history of the home and the family that owned it.

Norris Marshall is a medical student in 1830s Boston, a time when anatomy studies were carried out almost surreptitiously on cadavers supplied by less than scrupulous resurrectionists, more correctly known as grave robbers. He meets (and, of course, ultimately falls in love with) Rose Connolly, an Irish immigrant and the sister of a woman who died of childbed fever in the hospital where Marshall is studying. A gruesome killer, dubbed the West End Reaper by the journalists of the day, has begun to stalk the streets of Boston and Marshall and Connolly are the only witnesses to have caught a glimpse of the killer. But with single minded tunnel vision, the Boston constabulary come to believe that Marshall is the killer and Marshall's only hope for escape is to find the true killer before the police find him.

Aside from crafting a superb mystery, Gerritsen has also provided warm, romantic love story as well as a compelling and utterly convincing historical backdrop - 1830s Boston medical school, student life, ressurectionism, early feminism vs the standards of male chauvinism of the day, disease, filth, class distinctions, upstairs-downstairs, police practice, immigration, friction between Catholics (disparagingly called "Papists") and Protestants, and even the story of the grudging development of hand-washing as a standard practice in hospitals as knowledge of germs and their spread slowly grew out of infancy.

This is not the normal medical thriller genre that Gerritsen fans will have come to expect but it is good solid, gripping fiction - equal parts mystery, romance and history. Well done and easily recommended.

Paul Weiss
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Loved it, Nov. 2 2008
This review is from: The Bone Garden: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
This book kept me turning the pages and staying up all night I just loved how she woven present day story with a historical story To me this author is superb and thats why I just bought 5 more of her books total books by Tess Geritsen = 8
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5.0étoiles sur 5 The Bone Garden, Aoû 12 2008
Par Jo (Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: The Bone Garden: A Novel (Hardcover)
I couldn't put it down. I found the jumping from past to present held my interest and I couldn't wait to get to the next "jump". I will certainly be picking up more of her books.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Entertaining Look at the Medicine and Mores of Boston in 1830
If you are a devoted Tess Gerritsen fan who loves Dr. Maura Isles using forensic anthropology to solve murders, please be aware that this book isn't in that vein. Read more
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