The Keepsake: A Novel

I've read all of the books in this series. I enjoyed this one very much but I wanted to read more about Daniel and Maura. I wish the writer would write more about the main characters personal relationships. I think this would make the books more interesting. I enjoyed the last book more because I liked reading about Jane's family problems. I'm looking forward to the next one.

Quite simply a great read from the first page to the last. I couldn't put it down and am looking forward to Gerritsen's next!

From beginning to end the book was unstoppable Tess Gerritsen keeps getting better and better

No one does it quite like Gerritsen! Her main characters, Maura Isles (medical examiner) and Jane Rizzoli (detective) are not just hero type characters who solve crime. Both are women who have issues and who have evolved and continue to evolve throughout the series on a personal level. Take that, and add in gruesome murders, forensic and medical details, some history and you have a winner. I used to be a fan of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta, but Tess Gerritsen has kicked Cornwell off of my reading list and replaced Scarpetta with Dr. Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli.

Tess Gerritsens 'The Keepsake' was a decent enough read with some interesting and unexpected twists in the plot. However it was quite slow paced and ,dare I say it, even a tad boring in places. Points were quite laboured and the majority of the book had to read before anything of major significance happened. A series of barely hinted at clues left me infuriated and I feel that lead characters should have been more involved than they turned out to be. This is not a bad book by any stretch of the imagination and it is well worth a read so long as the reader is prepared to be patient with it.