Excellent story. Dr Maura Isles learns she had a twin sister and a mother who took babies from women and sold them. gripping.

(2004)Very good sequel to The Sinner. (PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY): Pregnant women play key roles in this bone-chilling fourth novel in Gerritsen's edgy, suspenseful series of thrillers featuring Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli. Both of the usually gritty crime fighters are uncharacteristically vulnerable. Rizzoli is carrying her first child, and Isles¥divorced and alone at age 40 and suddenly, unsettlingly aware of her biological clockÂ¥is experiencing decidedly unspiritual feelings for her priest. As the novel begins, IslesÂ¥an adopted child who never knew the identity of her birth parentsÂ¥is confronted by the corpse of a murdered woman who is apparently her identical twin. Another detective, Rick Ballard, comes forward to say that he knew the victim and is certain her killer is a powerful pharmaceutical baron known to have stalked her. Isles falls for the handsome Ballard, but she isn't convinced by his theory, and she launches an investigation into her sister's past, following the trail to a state correctional facility and a schizophrenic inmate who may be her mother. This opens the cobwebbed pages of a nightmarish family album and leads Isles to a remote cabin in Maine where the long-dead body of a pregnant woman is discovered buried in the woods. The killer, Isles discovers, has been murdering pregnant women for decades, making periodic sweeps of the country. Meanwhile, brief scenes chronicle the diabolical kidnapping of an affluent pregnant housewife who is kept buried in a crude coffin. An electric series of startling twists, the revelation of ghoulishly practical motives and a nail-biting finale make this Gerritsen's best to date.

Definite page turner. Really good read. Gripping... ( )

I really liked this one, it had a wonderful flow and movement and the perfect amount of suspense =) ( )

Rizzoli must be exhausted. Chasing after bad guys and prepping for a baby. Plus long distance husband. Maura's plot in this one hits out of left field. ( )