Tess Gerritsen doesn't fit the profile of unknown author. She's been a successful romance writer, conquered the medical thriller genre and seems to moving toward the traditonal thriller. Vanished is her newest novel, just released by Ballantine. The subject matter is reminiscent of Robert Crais' work rather than Patricia Cornwell despite the fact one of the principal characters is a medical examiner.
Vanished is one of those 'what if' stories, what if a body in a morgue isn't a body, but a living breathing woman? That's a tough one for a writer to execute, great concept, but how do you bring her back from the dead? Tess Gerritsen pulls it off, largely by underselling the situation, by putting her character to immediate use, creating a hostage crisis in downtown Boston.
Thrillers need complications, and this one delivers them in a plausible and enjoyable barrage, until the immediate crisis is resolved. One of the principal charcaters, Jane Rizzoli, is a Boston homicide detective. Her husband, Gabriel, is an FBI agent. A visit to the hospital becomes a nightmare for Jane. She is nine months pregnant and is taken hostage by a pair of desperate fugitives.

read this one over the weekend... very nice.. couldnt pit it down once i started..

i would give it a