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Vanish: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
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Vanish: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

Written by Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by Susan Denaker

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double.

A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes.

Very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes hostages . . . one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli.

Who is this violent, desperate soul, and what does she want? As the tense hours tick by, Maura joins forces with Jane's husband, FBI agent Gabriel Dean, to track down the mysterious killer's identity. When federal agents suddenly appear on the scene, Maura and Gabriel realize that they are dealing with a case that goes far deeper than just an ordinary hostage crisis.

Only Jane, trapped with the armed madwoman, holds the key to the mystery. And only she can solve it-if she survives the night.


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LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 23, 2005
ISBN9781415922743
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Vanish: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
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Tess Gerritsen

New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen earned international acclaim for her first novel of suspense, Harvest. She introduced Detective Jane Rizzoli in The Surgeon (2001) and Dr. Maura Isles in The Apprentice (2002) and has gone on to write numerous other titles in the celebrated Rizzoli & Isles series, most recently The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again, and I Know a Secret. Her latest standalone thrillers are Playing with Fire and The Shape of Night. A physician, Tess Gerritsen lives in Maine.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was a sad book in the series. It's always hard to think that human trafficking still exists in the world. This book mainly focuses on Rizzoli who is about to give birth and also about Mila and Anya who are from Russia and told they are going to America for respectable jobs only to be locked into a house where they service men. There are a few twists and turns and I didn't expect a certain person to be part of the conspiracy. This book in the series was so good I had to listen to it all in one day. I kept thinking I would stop and then all of a sudden "end of disc blank" and I would be like NOOOOOOOO! So this book will keep you wanting to know more and will keep your attention. Very well done.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book had me from the first page and had my attention until the end. I'm glad we got to see more of Jane's husband, Gabriel Dean. Hoping we'll get to see more of him in the other books.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Although I am a fan of the TV series, this is the first book I have read. The characters are fairly similar and it was like meeting two old friends after a long break.
    In this book, Jane is expecting her first child, which I was quite surprised to read. But in hindsight, one book is equivalent to one series on TV timeline wise, so I guess it's not that surprising after all.
    The action kicks in immediately in true Rizzoli and Isles style with Jane climbing onto a defendant in court after he goes berserk and handcuffing him just before her water breaks in his face! The story is about slavery and human trafficking - a common enough theme in many crime novels these days. The descriptions are graphic but not vomit inducingly so.
    The one thing I did not like about the storytelling is that there was also Mila, one of the victims, telling her point of view, alternating with the main storyline. I found that disorienting since the detectives discover something we already know through Mila's eyes. You realize at the end that she is speaking into a tape recorder documenting her experience since the first and last lines of the book are the same. It does tie it up, but I would have preferred walking in the detectives' footsteps alone as there would have been more tension then.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Another good Rizzoli and Isles story. Well fleshed out characters and interesting storyline. I always have a picture in my mind of the actresses from the TV series when I read these books.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Good, fast read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A fast, enjoyable read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A Rizzoli and Isles to end all. Rizzoli is nine months pregnant and taken hostage at the hospital. The story revolves around the import of poor Russian, etc. girls who are enslaved and immediately thrown into prostitution. Jan struggles with being a new mother and trying to solve the killing of her captor.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Lots of action and suspense. Good stuff.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Vanish by Tess Gerritsen lives up to my expectations. I have read several of her books but out of order and that never made it difficult with connecting to the story. There is always plenty of suspense to keep me turning the pages and little bits of humor thrown in.Maura Isles is a Boston Medical Examiner and had unzipped the body bad of a beautiful woman and the woman opens her eyes. This was the start of a very long bad day for Maura, she rushes the woman in for medical treatment. Mila, a redhead from Belarus is in Mexico City. She has been tricked into a sex trafficking scheme. Her tale is one of sorrow and pain. She and other women are taken to United States where they are kept in a house with bars on the windows. From then on, everything gets worse for her. Jane Rizzoli is pregnant with her first baby, and on maternity leave. She is thrust into a hostage situation and fears for her unborn baby's life and her own.All three of these women were trapped in a horrible situation. I applaud the author's courage to take on the horrible situation of sex tracking. Previously, I had visited San Francisco and read a long report about it and the details like the bars on the windows were the same. It is a difficult read in those parts of the story but this nightmare must be addressed and prevented.I highly recommend this book even though there are some graphic scenes.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Another good entry in the Rizzoli & Isles series by Tess Gerritsen. What I most enjoy is that both the plotting and approach to the stories is fresh, different from so many genre mysteries.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This one while fast to read was really hard to get through. The subject matter is very rough and very detailed. If you are not prepared for dealing with rape and child murder this book will totally fuck you over. 
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Wow, this book was just amazing. Usually by the fifth book other books in a series start to get old, but not Rizzoli and Isles. I am still enjoying these books and I really love this one.

    I would recommend this series to anybody. There so good.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Liked the twists in the plot - white hat/black hat but who are the baddies.Russian prostitutes, bent coppers, babies; what a lovely mix; and the murders.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Meh. I read the book but I wouldn't say I was gripped. I found the characters fairly one dimensional and the plot somewhat ridiculous.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I would have given this 5 stars but the back and forth drove me crazy sometimes because I really was into what was happening. All I can tell you is this book kept me reading. It was about bringing in young girls as sex slaves. Which you will pick up right from the beggining. But after that it really gets going. So I do not want to give away much. But Rizzolli is her true self again. So you can enjoy reading her in action. There are many twists and turns. It made me want to cry for some of the victims. I really felt for them. For a book to do this to you it has to be good !!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Ah, the pregnancy rears its ugly head again (though, I assume there's a cute head waiting at the end of the pregnancy tunnel). Of course, there are still years (and so many many books) of the whole 'being a mom' vs. 'being a cop' drama to come as well.What I find really interesting about Gerritsen's books in this series is that the characters do change and they're not at all one dimensional, but it always seems like they can't change towards good for very long. I get that fiction needs drama and a good way to get drama is through personal troubles, anger, sadness. But sometimes it just seems like everyone is always angry and they don't ever seem to let up with it in these books.Of course, I was also a bit confused when the radio station KBUR was introduced into the story since the novel takes place in and around Boston and while there are a couple of radio call signs with Ks (in NY) on the Boston side of the Mississippi River, for the most part it's Ws. And, while, yes, the call sign isn't essential to the novel, it still irked me.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Sometimes, someone who vanishes lives on in her friend's hearts years later. A good story, but I wish some of the characters would have finished as it was unclear who some of the law enforcement personnel were. New mother in danger - now there's a new plot line!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is part 5 of the Rizzoli & Isles series but less of a whodunit and more of a story about a social problem of our society: modern slaves in the sex industry. This is Mila´s story who comes from Eastern Europe to the US, hoping for a better life but she ends up in a brothel where she is victim of abuse, murder and death. Far away from that place Jane Rizzoli ends up in a kidnapping situation in the very same hospital where she is about to have her first baby. She is hold prisoner by a woman who was already proclaimed death but dr. Isles discovered that the corpse in the body bad wasn´t a corpse at all.... Are you with me still? This really sounds like a twisted story but in the end Gerritsen gets all the parts of her story back together and there even is a slight sparkle of hope, but getting there is a really tour-de-force. But knowing, liking and loving the two heroines of these detectives stories makes the fifth installment another entertaining read. Let´s go on to number 6!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Audiobook. I really enjoyed this one. It's my favorite so far. I can't wait until I can get the next one in the series.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A ripping yarn: the best of the series so far.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is the fifth book in the Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles series, all of which I've read this year. I did not enjoy this as much as the previous books as I did not like the point of view. I dislike novels that contain two different points of views, first person and third person. It was still enjoyable enough except of the conspiracy aspects to the story. I just don't enjoy conspiracy novels.

    One thing I did enjoy was that this book, though a different story, is that it is, time wise, not that far from the previous novel.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    the tough cop act from Jane Rizzoli is getting a little old. What kind of person goes back out hunting the bad guys 3 days after they have a baby? If you want to play rambo, then don't have kids.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    These young Russian females are promised the American dream, but what they get when they are smuggled into America, is the life of prostitution. The evil web that arises is an anigma of our civil order of justice in itself and within itself. This is a very well written story line that keeps you on the edge of your seat, the characters seem too come to life and become part of your conscience.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    As usual, Gerritsen writes an excellent novel. The story flows easily. In this adventure, Jane Rizzoli is ready the have her baby. Of course, Jane cannot just start her maternity leave, she must follow dangerous villains. A hostage situation arises in the hospital and Jane is one of the hostages. Gerritsen skirts in and out of the reason for the hostage situation and the reason for the title of Vanish. The story hits on the topic of these vanished women stolen from European countries and sold into slavery in the United States. The story is chilling in that has been told again and again, and yet this violence continues.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is my first encounter with the increasingly popular author Tess Gerritsen and her series of books featuring Detective Jane Rizzoli and Dr. Maura Isles. The series of novels have been developed into a TV series called Rizzoli & Isles which I have been following; so when a member of the family offered to lend me one of Gerritsen's novels I thought why not?As I know from experience, the book is always different from the movie/TV show and it was no different here. In Vanish, Detective Rizzoli is heavily pregnant which is quite a departure from the character from the TV program and I don't think I ever quite got used to the idea of Jane as a mother in the novel.Taken hostage in the hospital while in labour - which was a little unbelievable - Jane does her best to stay alive, however the case is taken over by the highest powers and Jane and her FBI husband try and work out what is behind the clean up attempts and hidden evidence. There are allusions to terrorism and a visit with a Senator however the ending was extremely disappointing - spoiler alert - in that it all boiled down to a sex/snuff tape featuring the most powerful man in the Intelligence arena. This is an average crime story, but nothing more than that. It did contain a moving sub-plot of a young girl struggling to seek freedom however it was mildly entertaining at best. My cover is different to the image above (no naked image of a woman) and contains the following quote:'This is crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best.' - HARLAN COBENUnfortunately I didn't find Vanish unputdownable or nerve-tingling and I'm not sure if I'll be giving Gerritsen a second chance in the future; not for a while anyway. I think I'll stick to the TV Show for now, which I enjoy very much.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Vanish is the fifth of Tess Gerritsen’s Rizzoli/Isles series. The story starts with Maura Isles discovering a female in a body bag, an apparent drowning victim, who isn’t dead. Transferred to the hospital, the woman becomes violent, shoots a security guard and takes hostages. Jane Rizzoli, about to give birth, happens to be in the wrong place and becomes one of the hostages. Her husband, FBI Agent Gabriel Dean, her Boston PD colleagues and Maura Isles spare no effort trying to track down the woman’s identity and her reasons for the siege. Once again, Gerritsen brings the reader a gripping drama, with Jane Rizzoli providing many lighter moments. In the court scene, Rizzoli conclusively proves that, even at 9 months pregnant, she is still a cop. As well as exploring Rizzoli’s doubts about her mothering ability and her concern with her lack of maternal instinct (topical for many first-time mothers), Gerritsen touches on subjects as diverse as sex slave trafficking, war profiteering and sieges and negotiators. As always, an excellent plot with a few twists makes this book hard to put down. Gerritsen at her finest.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Now we're talking! I really enjoyed this fifth installment in the Rizzoli & Isles series. This one was a nice blend of Jane & Maura action, although for some reason I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that Jane is both married and pregnant! (I blame the TNT series for this!!)I loved the beginning of this book, where Maura is at work late and hears noises from the storage cooler...only to find a body that isn't so dead! That shocking open leads us into a tangle of government conspiracy, a hostage standoff, Jane in the hospital, and everyone looking for a woman named Mila!I dug all of the twists in this story from the back-and-forth in the beginning to tell the backstory of Mila and Olena, to the new chapter for Jane as she finally finds her footing in the role of wife and mother, to the final whodunnit. This was what I'd been waiting for in the past few books: lots of suspense, plotlines with BOTH Maura and Jane, and an ending that I had to wait until the last minute to figure out! Great read!!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Vanish is book #5 from the Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles Series. A very fast paced, exciting novel. The Surgeon and The Sinner are still my favorites from the series, so far. I would like to see, in the upcoming novels in this series, some romance for Dr. Maura Isles. She leads a very dull, boring life. All the books in this series would make good movies.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Det. Rizzoli and Dr. Isles return again for another adventure, however, the main characters in this book turn out to be victims of sexual slavery. Sex slaves are kidnapped and brought into Northern Virginia (near DC). Gerritsen does a phenomenal job of following their progress and showing the horrors of their life. The descriptions are graphic and disturbing, as is the reality of this crime. Gerritsen switches between the story line of some girls brought into Virginia, and Det. Rizzoli (9 1/2 months pregnant) being kidnappped. Eventually the story lines overlap with Dr. Isles playing detective, looking into the DC power players.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Once again it's Rizzoli and Isles to the rescue. When Jane becomes a hostage, Maura and Gabriel do everything to get her back alive -- and since things are never easy, the hostage standoff is just the start to a cover-up that will expose secrets that are trying hard to stay hidden.