| Ice Cold: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel: with Bonus Content |  | Author: Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  85 reviews
Sales Rank: 40
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Pages: 368
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
ASIN: B0036S4C5C
Publication Date: June 23, 2010
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Product Description
This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content:
• Rizzoli & Isles, In Their Own Words: learn more about the lead characters in these special essays written by the author
• Rizzoli & Isles TV Pilot script: read pages from the script for the pilot episode of the TNT drama
New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen’s relentless, inventive novels take readers on pulse-racing thrill rides that are as satisfying as they are heart-stopping. Now, in this edge-of-your-seat suspense novel, a mysteriously isolated town stands abandoned as a silent watcher waits.
In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles joins a group of friends on a spur-of-the-moment ski trip. But when their SUV stalls on a snow-choked mountain road, they’re stranded with no help in sight.
As night falls, the group seeks refuge from the blizzard in the remote village of Kingdom Come, where twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Something terrible has happened in Kingdom Come: Meals sit untouched on tables, cars are still parked in garages. The town’s previous residents seem to have vanished into thin air, but footprints in the snow betray the presence of someone who still lurks in the cold darkness—someone who is watching Maura and her friends.
Days later, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news that Maura’s charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow. As horrifying revelations come to light, Jane closes in on an enemy both powerful and merciless—and the chilling truth about Maura’s fate.
Look for Tess Gerritsen's other Rizzoli & Isles eBooks: The Surgeon (contains additional bonus content), The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, and The Keepsake.
Published in the UK as THE KILLING PLACE.
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 A Great Addition to a Fascinating Series June 29, 2010
Olga Bezhanova (Edwardsville, IL)
149 out of 154 found this review helpful
I'm a huge fan of Gerritsen's Rizzoli and Isles series, so I stayed up all night reading this book the moment it was delivered to me on my Kindle. For those who are unfamiliar with the series, I believe that a warning is in order: Gerritsen has a gritty, tough style of writing, which is pretty much unlike anybody else's I have read in the suspense/mystery genre. There are graphic descriptions of violence and surgical procedures in her books. If you are likely to be bothered by that, this might not be the series for you. If you don't have anything against this kind of writing, however, you are in for a real treat. Gerritsen is a unique author who manages to create great suspense with every new scene. She is extremely skilled at creating nuanced, complex characters whose lives the readers follow assiduously and passionately.
The fans of the Rizzoli/Isles series will not be disappointed by this book. I liked all the books in the series but in my opinion this one is the most suspenseful. The tension starts building almost from the very beginning until a sense of dread becomes nearly overwhelming. Gerritsen is great at creating an eerie environment and keeping her readers deeply invested in the story. I can honestly say that there wasn't a single boring page in the entire book.
"Ice Cold" offers us yet another fascinating journey into the lives of its unique main characters. We see Maura Isles in the grip of a personal crisis. It leads her to participate in an adventure that at first seems simply out of character but eventually turns out to be extremely dangerous. We follow Jane Rizzoli as she searches desperately for her missing friend.
There is bonus material that comes with the book, such as Rizzoli and Isles TV pilot script and "Rizzoli and Isles in their own words", a bonus chapter giving a short first-person description of the main characters.
Overall, the book was extremely enjoyable and I recommend it highly. The fans of the series will be happy to discover that they haven't waited in vain for this new book from Tess Gerritsen.
"I think we've run out of time." June 30, 2010
E. Bukowsky (NY United States)
40 out of 41 found this review helpful
In Tess Gerritsen's "Ice Cold," forty-two year old medical examiner Maura Isles is heartbroken. She is in a relationship with Daniel Brophy, a Catholic priest. However, their year-long affair has not brought either of them much happiness. Daniel is reluctant to give up his calling, and Maura is frustrated with his inability to make up his mind. After spending the night together, they part. Maura flies from Boston to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to attend a medical conference. There, she meets a former classmate, pathologist Doug Comley, who is divorced and has a thirteen year-old-daughter, Grace. He asks Maura to accompany him and his friends on a trip to a cross-country ski lodge. She agrees, but soon regrets her decision. Doug loses his way in the snowy landscape, and they end up stranded. When Daniel and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli do not hear from Maura and are unable to contact her, they fear that something is terrible has happened.
"Ice Cold" is an action-packed thrill ride with intriguing characters we care about. Maura is courageous but realistic; she knows that if she is not rescued soon, she will probably die in this frozen wilderness. Jane and her husband, Gabriel Dean, an ex-Marine and an FBI agent, are determined to find their friend, but they will face obstacles more formidable than the horrendous weather. Meanwhile, Daniel is wracked with guilt over the way he has treated the woman he loves, especially when he realizes that he may never see her again.
This is a story about survival under extreme conditions, the limits of romantic love, and the dangers of bending one's will to a charismatic cult leader. Jeremiah Goode has created a sect with hundreds of followers who slavishly adhere to his decrees, some of which are rather repellant. Maura's struggle to survive will become interconnected with the fate of Goode and his supporters. Gerritsen maintains suspense by shifting back and forth from Maura's travails to Jane and Gabriel Dean's efforts to save her. Unexpectedly, Maura discovers that she is being shadowed, but who is following her and what does he want? The conclusion, which is a humdinger, includes one or two surprising twists and turns. Gerritsen has written an absorbing, chilling, and fast-paced novel that will keep readers turning pages well into the night
HOLY CRAP, this is a good book ! July 1, 2010
Cyn Premo (anchorage, alaska)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I pre-ordered Tess Gerritsen's "Ice Cold" for my Kindle, and once I began to read it, it assumed total control of my life until I finished it. The only fault I can find with the book is that it ended.
The Rizzoli-Isles series allows the reader to see the flaws, as well as the strengths, of the two women who are its main characters. This honesty makes Jane and Maura's friendship and working relationship realistic in a way that seldom exists in fiction. They do not always like each other, but they often learn from each other, and the reader sees them grow, as professionals, as friends,and as women. They are loyal to each other, but not blindly so. The friendship is sturdy and based on respect that has been earned over and over again.
Gerritsen has developed a style of terrifying the reader that surpasses nearly all of her peers.(The only writer currently as disquieting is Cody McFadyen with his Smoky Barrett series.) Although the earlier books in the Rizzoli-Isles series were rewardingly suspenseful, "Mephisto Club" was the one that introduced Gerritsen's still-evolving method of scaring us to death. "Ice Cold" carried on this new tradition. The descriptions of the bad guys and their crimes are more than adequate to disturb our sleep, but that's not what sets Gerritsen apart; it is her subtle and crafty manipulation of scene and character and dialogue that creates an evil hum, barely audible, but always there. It is both brilliant and lightless.
Great Suspense August 1, 2010
Mel Odom (Moore, OK USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My wife and I have been reading Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli and Isles books for years. It's always a race to see who gets to the new one first. We have different takes on the story and plot, and we have great discussions over what we thought was really good about the books. There's just enough violence and mayhem to sate me, and my wife always gets hooked on the characters and personal problems. I have to admit that those interest me as well, but I'm a violence and mayhem kind of guy. I've even met the author and she's wonderful. Her speech at the writing convention that I attended was scintillating and enlightening. If you get a chance to see her in person, you should.
Gerritsen's newest Rizzoli and Isles book is a fantastic little suspense tale, but not exactly the Rizzoli and Isles I'd been expecting. This story is more Maura Isles-centric, more revealing of her life and current problems (dating a priest is a BIG problem) and of the decisions she's going to have to make.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the shift in the focus, but generally Rizzoli and Isles get embroiled in a murder investigation and that's where the focus stays. Usually some aspect of the murder or the investigation will rope in the personal problems our two heroines are currently facing. This usual approach went off the tracks in the first chapter and just stayed there.
While Isles is out of town attending a medical conference, and she's trying to figure out how she and Father Daniel Brophy are going to manage their relationship, keep quiet, and somehow feel connected without one of them giving up something major, she hooks up with an old colleague and his family and friends.
I really enjoyed the road trip Gerritsen takes her readers on. Everything felt real, and the moment-by-moment progression of the conflicts within the group really deepened the characters. I understood and knew each of them, and when things turned bad, I cared about them and didn't want them to be hurt.
Some of the action is gut-churning and nerve-wracking in a way that the author has never done before. Amazingly, the biggest threat I felt through the whole novel is from nature - from the Wyoming cold and desperate straits Isles and the others find themselves in, as well as the rising conflicts between the characters.
Rizzoli gets regulated to a yo-yo in the background of this story. She's there, but she doesn't get to do as much as I would have liked. Of course, there's not the usual investigation in this one either, so she's as much out of her depth as Isles is.
Gerritsen has a lot of plot threads on the loose in this novel, and I was intrigued by all of them. The menace of Jeremiah Goode and the Kingdom Come religious community lurked around every corner and twisted through every shadow that fell on the ground.
I have to admit, though, I was jarred when the book shifted gears about two-thirds of the way through. The plotting made sense, but I felt like I was cast adrift for a while and had to find my way back. I've thought about it since reading the story and I'm satisfied it was the best way for the novel to go but I still felt like I'd missed something.
Since there's one big decision hanging in the wings, I'm really looking forward to Gerritsen's next novel in the series. Gotta see how things work out.
On another note, I'm really enjoying watching Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander portraying these two characters in the new television series. And for you rabid collectors of all things Rizzoli and Isles (and what fan isn't), I just found out there's a new Rizzoli and Isles short story online at the TNT home website. A new chunk of the story "Freaks" goes up every Monday.
As Good As It Gets For A Thriller July 4, 2010
Daniel Kramer (NYC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I started this book, I thought that I was reading Stephen King. There was a creature out there and the good guys were in trouble. Then the book turned into a wonderful thriller with twists and turns. Yes you could see some of them coming and yes, you know that the good guys are going to be OK at the end, but this book, which I read in 1 day, was great. I love thrillers and I am quite critical of those that do not measure up. This one does...in spades. Read and enjoy.
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