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    The Apprentice: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
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    The Apprentice: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

    Written by Tess Gerritsen

    Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris

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    About this audiobook

    The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns-and so does that chilling novel's diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly.

    THE APPRENTICE

    It is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death.

    The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city's streets. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. At least that's what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks. Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her-literally and figuratively-she is determined to finally end Hoyt's awful influence . . . even if it means receiving more resistance from her all-male homicide squad.

    But Rizzoli isn't counting on the U.S. government's sudden interest. Or on meeting Special Agent Gabriel Dean, who knows more than he will tell. Most of all, she isn't counting on becoming a target herself, once Hoyt is suddenly free, joining his mysterious blood brother in a vicious vendetta. . . .

    Filled with superbly created characters-and the medical and police procedural details that are her trademark-The Apprentice is Tess Gerritsen at her brilliant best. Set in a stunning world where evil is easy to learn and hard to end, this is a thriller by a master who could teach other authors a thing or two.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 20, 2002
    ISBN9780553756272
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    The Apprentice: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
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    Tess Gerritsen

    Tess Gerritsen left a successful practice as an internist to raise her children and concentrate on her writing. She gained nationwide acclaim for her first novel of medical suspense, the New York Times bestseller Harvest; she followed her debut with the bestsellers Life Support and Gravity. Her other novels include Body Double, The Sinner, The Apprentice, and The Surgeon. Tess Gerritsen lives in Maine.

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    • 4/5
      The Apprentice is the second in the Jane Rizzoli series. Jane is a Boston detective that is faced with a copycat murderer of the serial killer she put in prison the previous year. This case stirs up some deep emotions that propel Jane to step it up and catch this guy. Jane is a hard-working female in a male-dominated profession and she has scars, figuratively and literally, from past cases that drive her to continually prove herself. I found her character fairly true to life and the medical component was done very well (very descriptive - not for the faint of heart). I was thankful for the use of layman's terms and the step-by-step explanations. All in all, the storyline kept me interested and I enjoyed the connection with a past character. (4/5)Originally posted on: "Thoughts of Joy..."
    • 4/5
      This was pretty much a continuation of book 1 as Rizzoli deals again with Hoyt, the surgeon from the first book. It takes a little bit for her to piece together what is happening even though she is blocked by FBI agent Dean. Throughout the entire book I wasn't so sure of Dean and I had my doubts whether he really was an FBI agent. This book is gruesome and interesting to listen to. I look forward to the next installment.
    • 4/5
      This was a good and enjoyable book but I definitely did not enjoy it as much the first one in the series. I think for the following reasons:
      1) At times there was too much detail, obviously Tess Gerritsen is from a medical background and there is too much detail at times that can slow down the pace and get in the way of the story.
      2) I don't particularly find Rizzoli a likeable character, she presents too many barriers for me, the reader, to like her, although I can understand her.
      3) I miss Moore, her partner in the last book, who was a likeable character. I feel she needs a foil like him.
      4) I liked the way it was told from the victim's perspective in the first book and liked Catherine Cordell for this reason, this gave a unique perspective to the first book.
      5) The ending was quite rushed in my opinion, and the final solution came too easy.
      I would like some of the story told from Isles perspective.

      As I say though this was an enjoyable 4 star read, but not the five star book that I found The surgeon to be. However, I will be continuing with the series and hope the next one is up with the very high quality of book 1.
    • 4/5
      Good story
    • 4/5
      A solid thriller with a pair of serial killers. Conclusion was surprisingly abrupt.
    • 3/5
      12/16/14
      The story was pretty good, but some aspects really bothered me. I don't understand why the romantic counterpoint was such an arrogant dick most of the time. Also, the story dragged on way longer than it needed to. I was ready for the book to be over around chapter 20. I'll continue on with the series, but with reservations.
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      4/3/16
      I just finished reading it again, because I forgot I had already read it. Agent Dean was still obnoxious. I never got around to reading the next book, but I'm going to give it a shot, and hope for better development of the supporting characters.
    • 4/5
      I have read a few Rizzoli and Isles books but not in order. They are tense thrillers and well written stories. Maybe a little too much scientific detail of the murder victims.
    • 3/5
      Strong follow-up to the first "Rizzoli & Isles" story. This time, Isles at least makes an appearance, but they are still not well acquainted. Gerritsen manages to recycle the nemesis of the first volume very effectively. A gripper.
    • 5/5
      I am glad I decided to read these in order. This book was basically a sequel and continuation of the previous book. I liked it a lot. I've already got the next book loaded up on my Nook to read!
    • 4/5
      This book reminds me of sex, a lot of foreplay and a sudden, sharp and short climax.

      I enjoyed the book but was annoyed by one aspect. The police did not find the killers, the killers found the police and if they had just stayed away from the police they could have continued on their merry way of slaughtering women. This is such a predictable conclusion to a book and is a bit annoying.
    • 4/5
      I thoroughly enjoy the format of Gerritsen's books with the story being told by different characters. Gerritsen presents the voices of Jane Rizzoli and of Warren Hoyt, and both Jane and Warren are hunters. The story begins with the brutal murder of a couple and then the escape of Warren Hoyt from a maximum-security prison. Hoyt joins forces with a deranged killer who has been killing couples. Rizzoli must face her demons and hunt the two killers. Gerritsen goes into the psyche of the hunter and the hunted for a truly incredible theory.
    • 3/5
      From my blogWhat a total let down, I cannot believe this was written by the same author, The Surgeon was almost perfection in my mind, so to get a total boring, what was the point follow up was beyond disappointing. This read like a debut, repetition continuously. I understand the details needed for those that didn't read The Surgeon but even if you didn't it became insanely unnecessary.There was no mystery to me in this book, so The Surgeon escapes from prison and the serial killer who they name The Denominator end up working together. The disappointing part is when we get to see them together it is the last scene of book and in my opinion, one of the worst endings ever, seriously I read the book for that, sigh. I will read the next in series just because there is no way Tess Gerritsen gave me a fluke. The Surgeon was scary, had horrifying and gruesome scenes, lots of on the edge anxiety while reading, this one just fell flat, I seriously forced myself to finish.For those that watch the show, do we deal with the 'I'm a female in a male dominant career pity party concept'? That is so irritating to me that I seriously started to hate Rizzoli. And the continued comparison of Rizzoli and The Surgeon as hunters, I didn't buy it.The Surgeon is such a great book, for those interested I highly recommend reading that one and skipping this in the series. Let us hope it gets better. I wonder if The Surgeon and The Apprentice was written as one and then edited down, possibility........
    • 5/5
      Another vivid read, if you can stomach some gore. Wacked out plot - that's key to a good book.
    • 4/5
      The second book in the Rizzoli and Isles series started out as a lukewarm experience for me. It felt like more of the same as the first to me. That made it feel like a really long mystery, where you found out the bad guy half way through. Kinda anti-climatic. But I liked the characters. I will say, I love that all the characters were back. Some I loved, some not so much. I did like Dean to come in and replace Thomas. I hope we see more of him, (and I will be reading more of the series to find out). And I am happy we finally got to meet Isles. The ending was great, and it took the whole book (couple books) to a whole new level. It put the two books in a whole new light, and made it worth the read. Gerritsen may turn out to be one of my favorite authors yet.
    • 4/5
      Jane Rizzoli, a detective, and Maura Isles, a medical examiner, are team up once again in another fabulous novel by Tess Gerritsen. Rizzoli has previously come close to losing the fight against maniac serial killers and the current one terrorizing the city is too close for comfort (that story is The Surgeon) by almost mimicking the calling cards of the previous one. At first Rizzoli is able to put her fears of the past behind her to work on this case until her almost killer escapes from jail and teams up with his copy cat. From there on it turns into a race against time for Rizzoli since they named her as their next target.This book is most definitely a thriller, to me at least, I was gripped from the moment I started and couldn't put it down. It went everywhere with me so I could read it if I had any spare minute and that doesn't happen all the time! Every aspect was well written and smooth. This is one of the few where I can't really find anything to complain about!! Of course though, that is just me, I can't know if everyone else will like her books! So if you have read this book and found things you didn't like, comment below because I am interested!!So about Tess. For those who haven't read her books, she is wonderful at describing any medical aspect she incorporates. But she's probably so good because she herself is a doctor. Although, for some doctors it's hard to explain things on our level so that WE understand. Tess doesn't make anything sound so off-the-wall and complicated that you would have to be a doctor also just to understand. She seems to get the fact that her reads don't have all that excessive education : )
    • 4/5
      Now, we've got a series!! I was a little worried after reading the first book in the Rizzoli & Isles series that there was no series! But this one restored my faith and I'm excited to see where Tess will take us next! I recently learned, from Ms. Gerritsen herself, that Jane was originally going to be killed off in the first book. I am so glad she wasn't! Her character was really fleshed out in this second book of the series, and we discovered that she isn't quite the bitch on wheels she pretends to be. We got to meet Dr. Maura Isles as well, and another character that I think we will be hearing a lot from down the road: Agent Gabriel Dean.Despite figuring out what was going to happen in this story pretty quickly, I nonetheless plowed through this book and enjoyed the tale along the way. There were a few unresolved issues for me (what ever happened to Airplane Man?) and I still think Ms. Gerritsen was a little heavy handed with the medical lingo and procedural stuff, but as a whole I found this second book miles above the first and I am eager to start number three!
    • 4/5
      Couples are being brutally murdered. The surgion has escaped from prison and it is lookiung as if he has a partner and they are coming back for Jane.
    • 4/5
      A worthy follow-up to The Surgeon, focused more on the character of Jane Rizzoli than on the story of the crime and its solution. I enjoyed the development of characters; they seem to be turning into a cast of people whom I will enjoy reading about. I also appreciated that the descriptions were a bit less graphic and, well, icky. A quick story that keeps moving.
    • 2/5
      Poor, especially compared to the first one. Lacking in the detective spirit, and the characterisation of the supporting people. The repetitive and rehashed plot fails to inspire.Jane Rizzoli is now a year on from her successful takedown of the Surgeon and although still occasionally disturbed by bad memories, she's mostly uneffected. (Her career is also back on track with nothing more being said about her 'bad shoot'). Thomas Moore is off in London honeymooning his new wife the previosu victim, so Jane has nobody to support her when a new round of similarly abused corpses are found. Her whining rackets up a notch as Warren Hoyt (the Surgeon) manages to escape from a cat 6 prision. And Jane knows he'll be looking to finish his business with her. Meanhwile the FBI has turned up with no explanation given. Gabriel Dean absorbs information and occasionally manages a sentance or two.Unfortunetly all the tension from the previous book has drained away. We have the same killer, so the surprise is lost too, and the police team don't make any headway. There's little discussion of any clues and we're merely treated to a series of crime scene investigations, without suspects. Then there's a chance encounter and the book ends.The first book was good enough to earn a possible look at the third, but I'm in no hurry to do so.
    • 3/5
      Gerritsen's novels are well-plotted and well paced. This was an entertaining mystery, better written than most. Like a lot of genre fiction, some of it was predictable, but I don't hold that against the novel. Frankly, that seems to be a necessary function of genre fiction.Anyhow, this is a good page-turner book. Like all mysteries, the skeptic in us might wonder how all these bad guys keep finding the same good guys...but a little suspension of disbelief goes a long way.Enjoy.
    • 5/5
      Tess Gerritsen is a great author. Loved 99% of the books I have read.
    • 2/5
      This book was merely ok for me. I'm not in love with any of the characters, and I don't think Jane Rizzoli is developed very well. She's pretty one sided. There's a slight attempt at some romance but it's not very compelling. And the climax of this book happens very quickly and is almost anti-climatic.
    • 4/5
      Exciting and creepy - second in a series, but it included enough background that I didn't feel lost...
    • 3/5
      Definitely not her best in the series. Maybe it was the translation into Dutch, but sometimes it felt like I was reading an autopsy manual instead of a thriller. The story was good enough though, I read it in one go. When the story finally got thrilling (no spoilers here), it ended as soon as it began. Body Double is still my favourite.
    • 4/5
      This is a direct sequel to The Surgeon, concentrating on the character Jane Rizzoli. There's a new murderer in town and he shows echoes of Warren Hoyt. But Warren is in Jail and his mentor is dead. Things get even more complicated when Warren escapes from jail and the two serial killers join forces.Sometimes Rizzoli's war against sexism is a bit overplayed and the medical detail is a little too much both of these things occasionally interfere with the story but overall it's interesting and enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      A serial killer is on the loose and he is preying on couples asleep in their beds. Jane Rizzoli is on the case and she notices a similarity with the killer from the first book. This was a fabulous thriller. Not as gruesome as the first but still very chilling. I was not fond of Rizzoli in the first book but she has developed and become a much more intricate (and likable) character. Gerritsen has a knack for writing unique killers and I was fascinated. I'll definitely continue reading this series.
    • 2/5
      Really! This book represents too much of a bad thing. The serial killer theme barely worked for me in one book, never mind two. And someone is sure to tell me that this is based on an actual case. The impulse control discussion was ok.
    • 4/5
      Currently reading 9/23/07Library EditionExcellent read. The only thing is, its predictable. But i felt like i had to keep reading to find out who the killer was and why he was killing. Kind of like the Hannibal character but he didn't eat people of course.
    • 5/5
      Even better than The Surgeon.
    • 4/5
      Interesting Mystery/Thriller, well written