Body Double: a novel by Tess Gerritsen

Twists and turns galore, March 22, 2005*****


I very much enjoyed this novel. It has enough twists and turns to make your head spin! Forensic pathologist Maura Isles returns home to Boston from a Paris conference to be greeted with shock by friends and coworkers who think she has been killed in front of her house. There is a body but it turns out to be that of a twin sister she didn't know she had. She had been adopted and didn't know her birth parents. By the time the novel ends she knows who they are and wishes she didn't. Meanwhile she sets out to discover who killed her sister. Her investigation takes her to Maine where she uncovers the bodies of a couple murdered long ago. This in turn leads her to discover a series of murders committed by a woman now in prison in Boston and supposedly insane. Is this woman her mother? Meanwhile, who killed her sister? I thought I had guessed the identity of the killer but, as in all good suspense novels, the author has a surprise up her sleeve,or is that a scalpel?