Gerritsen, Tess

When a perfectly preserved "mummy" is discovered in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum and an archaeologist turns up missing, medical examiner Maura Isles and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli have precious little time to derail the Archaeology Killer before he adds another chilling piece to his monstrous collection.

This is a collection of three tales that have a common thread of mystery and romance.

A serial killer stalks the women of Boston, killing with surgical precision and the same methods that a previous killer had used. The only hope for catching him seems to lie in Dr. Catherine Cordell, a trauma surgeon who two years earlier killed her attacker and now finds herself being hunted by the copy-cat murderer.

Dr. Toby Harper, attempting to track a patient who disappeared out of the Springer Hospital emergency room, finds herself on the trail of a deadly epidemic.

Presents two romance stories including "Never Say Die," in which Willy Jane Maitland finds danger and love when she teams up with ex-soldier Guy Barnard in an attempt to find her father who never returned from Vietnam; and "No Way Back," in which CIA agent Ami Donovan, suffering from amnesia, recalls only the love she feels for the man who kidnapped her in an act of vengeance.

Pathologist Dr. Maura Isles discovers that the lifeless body on the medical examiner's table is her identical twin and sets out to investigate the murder of the sister she never knew she had.

Dr. Claire Elliot, having moved from the city with her son to set up practice in Tranquility, Maine, is looking forward to a peaceful life, but when the town's teenagers start committing violent acts, Claire knows she has to find the cause before it ruins Tranquility and her family.

The city of Boston is shocked by a series of crimes in which wealthy men are forced to watch as their wives are brutalized, and Detective Jane Rizzoli believes the culprit is a man who is being influenced by a serial killer that has recently been arrested, but when the killer escapes from prison, Jane finds herself a target.

Homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are called to Boston's Chinatown to investigate the murder of a young woman who has been nearly decapitated and their only clue leads them back to a cold case from nineteen years earlier that is linked to a mysterious martial arts master and an ancient Chinese legend.