Tess Gerritsen - Vanish

review by showhost
another charity shop bargain!
After the first book I read of this author I said I would never read another as I said it was more Mills and Booon than crime. However, I had an email from the author or her blog sec, who said that Mills & Boon had jumped on her success & started re-releasing her earlier work which was indeed for Mills & Boon,
If it was published prior to 1997, it is most definitely a romance novel. (With the exception of HARVEST, which was my first thriller, and published in 1996.).
This book was 1st published in 2005 so I thought I'd give the author another go. It went in my suitcase for one of my holiday reads and I was glad I took it. I read this after the cody McFadyen (which I had enjoyed) and I was not disappointed.
Tess Gerritsen was a doctor so her knowledge of medical, ER & autopsy is in her novels as well as her studies in anthropology.
The story starts in the morgue where Dr. Iles & her assistant are undertsaffed and busy doing autopsys. As she unzips one of the bodybags, the corpse, a beautiful young woman opens her eyes.
Dr. Iles has the body rushed to the hospital ER across the road. Whilst in the ward the young woman murders an armed security guard, who it emerges later was not an employee of the hospital, then takes hostages. She is eventually joined by an accomplice and a siege situation arises.
Unfortunately for Detective Jane Rizzoli, who is 9 months pregnant, whe was in the wrong place at the wrong time & is now a hostage in labour.
Her husband FBI agent Gabriel, is finally allowed in to the hospital by the hostage takers. They just want to tell their story on National TV but the National Security at the White House have other ideas. They storm the building but not before the 'terrorists' say a few words to Jane & Gabriel.
Those words begin to nag at Jane and she and Gabriel find themselves fighting an unknown enemy. who was this girl and her partner tagged as terrorists? and why did the CIA & White House want them dead.
Janes life and that of her child is put in dire danger in this tense, smart thriller.
Shades of the early Patricia Cornwell here with a mix of Kathy Reichs. Forsensics, International Crime & human trafficking. I am glad I gave this author another go and will gladly read another.