Best-selling author Tess (aka Teresa and Terry) Gerritsen was born on 12 June 1953 in San Diego, CA, and raised there. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University (1975)
and her M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco.
She completed her internal medicine residency in Honolulu, Hawaii
along with her husband, Jacob, also a physician. Gerritsen retired as
an internist to Camden, Maine, to spend more time with her family and
to write.
, which provides biographical
information, photos, info about her books, and page of 'creepy biological facts.'
Inkspot weblog offers a
. Other interviews are available on
(Aug. 2006), at
(Aug. 2003, handwritten!), and at
(mid-Sept. 2002). The
profile
of Gerritsen (Sept. 2006), focusing on her shift from writing Harlequins to writing best-selling thrillers.
Her books, which are romantic suspense and medical suspense novels, include:
- Adventure's Mistress (1985; Private Library Collection, Romance)
- Call After Midnight (1987; Harlequin Intrigue #78)
- Under the Knife (1990; Harlequin Intrigue #136)
- Never Say Die (1992; Harlequin Intrigue #181; winner of the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award that year in the Harlequin Intrique category)
- Thief of Hearts (1995; Harlequin Intrigue #328)
- Keeper of the Bride (1996; Harlequin Intrigue #359)
- Whistleblower (1992)
- Peggy Sue Got Murdered (1994)
- Harvest
(1996), a medical thriller, for which Paramount has bought the film rights
- Presumed Guilty (1997; Harlequin Intrique)
- Life Support (1997)
- Bloodstream (1998), set in Maine
- In Their Footsteps (1999), not a medical thriller
- Gravity (1999)
- The Surgeon (2001)
- The Apprentice (2002)
- The Sinner (2003)
- Body Double (2004), fourth in the Jane Rizzoli series set in the Boston area; Maura Isles, a Boston medical examiner,
travels to Fox Harbor, Maine, in this book.
- Vanish: A Novel (2005), fifth in the Rizzoli series. A
blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Rizzoli when she finds herself on the
wrong side of a hostage crisis.
- The Mephisto Club (2006), sixth in the Jane Rizzoli/Maura Isles series.
- The Bone Garden (2007). Julia Hamill discovers bones of a long dead body in her Boston garden and a connection to an unsolved murder of the 1830s.
Her play, 'Adrift,' became a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week.
Gerritsen also has stories in several romance trilogies:
Impulse: Three
Complete Novels (2000; with
books by Barbara Delinsky and Linda Howard); Heatwave (2000,
with stories by Gerritsen, Linda Lael Miller and Barbara Delinsky); and
Stolen Memories (2001, with stories by Gerritsen, Jayne Ann
Krentz and Stella Cameron).
Last Update: 03/31/2008
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