Where to Start with Tess Gerritsen
- Best entry point → The Surgeon
- Best standalone → Gravity
- What fans keep coming back to → Vanish: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
- Best narrator for Tess Gerritsen → Body Double
- Highest rated by listeners → I Know a Secret (Rizzoli & Isles #12)
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The Surgeon
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 1
Narrated by Laurel Lefkow
★ 4.33 ABR Score (179.1K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (177.9K) ★ 4.46 Audible (1.2K)10h 49m listening time • Released 2020 - 2
Body Double
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 4
Narrated by Kathe Mazur
★ 4.32 ABR Score (65.5K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (63.9K) ★ 4.41 Audible (1.6K)11h 1m listening time • Released 2004 - 3
Gravity
Narrated by William Dufris
★ 4.22 ABR Score (18.6K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (17.6K) ★ 4.41 Audible (933)10h 55m listening time • Released 2012 - 4
I Know a Secret
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 12
Narrated by Tanya Eby
★ 4.22 ABR Score (30.5K ratings)★ 4.22 Goodreads (29.0K) ★ 4.43 Audible (1.5K)9h 9m listening time • Released 2017 - 5
The Silent Girl
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 9
Narrated by Tanya Eby
★ 4.21 ABR Score (48.5K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (46.4K) ★ 4.26 Audible (2.1K)10h 4m listening time • Released 2011 - 7
Playing with Fire
Narrated by Julia Whelan, Will Damron
★ 4.18 ABR Score (27.2K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (23.9K) ★ 4.33 Audible (3.3K)6h 56m listening time • Released 2015Whelan and Damron's dual narration transforms a locked-room mystery into something genuinely unsettling—their voices pull you between Julia's unraveling reality and the shadowy forces closing in around her.
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Last to Die
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 10
Narrated by Tanya Eby
★ 4.18 ABR Score (40.2K ratings)★ 4.13 Goodreads (38.0K) ★ 4.23 Audible (2.1K)10h 27m listening time • Released 2012 - 9
Vanish: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 5
Narrated by Susan Denaker
★ 4.17 ABR Score (74.8K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (73.3K) ★ 4.38 Audible (1.5K)11h 9m listening time • Released 2005 - 10
Life Support
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.14 ABR Score (20.1K ratings)★ 4.03 Goodreads (19.4K) ★ 4.33 Audible (717)11h 4m listening time • Released 2011 - 11
The Apprentice- Tess Gerritsen
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 2
Narrated by Anna Fields
★ 4.14 ABR Score (74.8K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (73.3K) ★ 4.35 Audible (1.6K)9h 34m listening time • Released 2004 - 12
The Mephisto Club
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 6
Narrated by Kathe Mazur
★ 4.12 ABR Score (53.3K ratings)★ 4.03 Goodreads (51.7K) ★ 4.21 Audible (1.6K)11h 15m listening time • Released 2006 - 14
Bloodstream
Narrated by Richard Poe
★ 4.10 ABR Score (18.2K ratings)★ 3.99 Goodreads (17.6K) ★ 4.3 Audible (589)11h 46m listening time • Released 2011 - 15
keepsake the
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 7
Narrated by Deirdre Lovejoy
★ 4.04 ABR Score (50.5K ratings)★ 4.12 Goodreads (49.1K) ★ 4.27 Audible (1.4K)10h 52m listening time • Released 2008
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