BODY DOUBLE

Don't plan to do anything once you start listening to Tess Gerritsen's riveting story of serial murder. Narrator Kathe Mazur captures the listener from the first terrible moments when a girl is lured to a remote wooded area and left entombed alive in a pit. Mazur doesn't let go until the final claustrophobic struggle of a kidnapped pregnant woman imprisoned in a coffin-like box. Another strand of the tightly constructed plot concerns Boston Medical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles. Adopted in infancy, Isles discovers that she had an identical twin sister, a schizophrenic woman in prison for a double homicide could be her mother, and her family lineage might include a line of psychopaths. Gerritsen's intriguing, original plot and Kathe Mazur's powerful performance are unforgettable. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine [Published: FEB/ MAR 05]