Customer Reviews
Simply awful........... - By: Mr. Tony Griffiths, 14 Jun 2008 
My third venture into Gerritsen's work.....and I should have learnt by now.
OK, I'm no writer, but I know bad writing when I see it. And this is simply awful.
The storyline is promising, but then it weaves into a love story which is plucked straight out of some dizzy romance magazine. Woman's husband diesin hotel fire. No post mortem to identify body because its so badly burnt. Dont worry about the bullet that's found, some maid must have dropped it. So just bury him. No grieving. Goody bloke (who naturally flosses & is suspended from his work) asks her questions after his death. Did you love him? (God, she is so lovely). He imagines stroking her glossy hair. Oh, for heaven's sake.
In fact, I laughed out loud at some of the cringeworthy dialogue. Is this for real? It felt like it had been written by some teenager for her summer project.
Well done. The worst novel I've read this year. Real Gerritsen fans should avoid at all costs. Laughably bad.
A note from the publisher - By: S. Walker, 28 Jun 2007 
As the publisher of Tess's more recent thrillers, I wanted to advise fans that this was originally published by Mira / Mills & Boonin the 1980s as a romantic suspense novel. Despite Mira's claims that the books they publish were Sunday Times bestsellers, & despite their use of Harlan Coben's quote (both of which Tess & we have asked them not to use), they continue to reissue her novels as thrillers. They are not thrillers, & were never intended to be.
The thrillers featuring Jane Rizzoli & Maura Isles are The Surgeon, first published by Transworldin 2002, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish & The Mephisto Club.
If you have any further comments / queries, you can talk to Tess direct via her website, www.tessgerritsen.com, or her blog. Or you can see herin person when she comes to the UKin Jan 08 with her new novel, The Bone Garden.
Selina Walker, Transworld.
different but still worth reading - By: Jelly Bean Beth, 23 Jun 2006 
Having read the apprentice, body double, the surgeon & the other booksin this series I was a little apprehensive about reading a "one-off". I need not have worried. If you are looking for a book writtenin a similar vein to the books I have just mentioned - then this is probably not the book for you. Call after Midnight is lightweightin comparison & is morein the vein of a Dorothy Gilman - Mrs Pollifax book. Call after midnight is about a woman who receives a phonecall which informs her her husband is dead - or is he? It appears Simon Fontaine was not the man he claimed to be - what follows is a worldwide chase to discover the truth. I could really envisage this as a movie that would have starred Audrey Hepburn & Cary Grant. Anyway I digress... overall if you are looking for a good beach read & enjoy an old fashioned thriller without blood & gore this is probably for you!
fun story! - By: Linda Jones, 16 Feb 2004 
I like this writer's style. And I thought this was a fun story! You'll like it too. I promise!
prepare yourself for a fast trip around europe - By: liz Bentley, 23 Aug 2001 what would you do if you had just found out that your husband had died abroad?Tess takes us on a fast trip around europe with a man to die for as company.Full of twists & turns ,the plot thickens,who can you trust?Chuckin some mystery,romance & espionnage this book has it all.
