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List Price: $27.50 | | Publisher: Random House Audio
Salesrank: 820100
Released: August 23, 2005 |
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Editorial Review:
A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double.
A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes.
Very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes hostages . . . one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli.
Who is this violent, desperate soul, and what does she want? As the tense hours tick by, Maura joins forces with Jane’s husband, FBI agent Gabriel Dean, to track down the mysterious killer’s identity. When federal agents suddenly appear on the scene, Maura and Gabriel realize that they are dealing with a case that goes far deeper than just an ordinary hostage crisis.
Only Jane, trapped with the armed madwoman, holds the key to the mystery. And only she can solve it–if she survives the night.
From the Hardcover edition.
Vanish: A Novel Reviews:
Couldn't Put It Down 
2008-08-16 - Sometimes I want a book to take me away from the here and now; to allow me to escape into another world entirely; to thrill me; to entertain me; to make me feel.
Tess Gerritson achieved all that beautifully in VANISH. Her writing is so clean and crisp. Seemingly effortlessly she creates believable characters we care about.
In the case of VANISH, the plot flowed seamlessly, and even though there was high drama, suspense, intrigue, and even melodrama, there was not one false note.
Ms. Gerritson also has a graceful and gentle voice, which amazingly goes very well even with scenes of violence and gore.
Ms. Gerritson: MORE, MORE, MORE!
The American Dream
2008-03-31 - As always, Tess Gerritsen never fails to captivate me. The strength of her work is her ability to grab you from the very beginning. I was hooked as soon as I started Chapter 1 where Mila tells her journey. A rather disturbing detail about her experience (and I was glad I was reading fiction). Vanish is one of those story where coming to America is a dream come true. Unfortunately for some, their dream is shattered the moment they set foot in this great land of freedom. That smuggling episode where young girls are flown to Mexico, then cross the border is a very creative one. I never thought of that.
As always, Tess' writing style is superb. I like how she started and ended Vanish. It was very dynamic. "My name is Mila and this is my journey..." Cold Eyes
Great Read...
2008-02-21 - Another entertaining read in the Jane Rizzoli series. It starts with a shock and the suspense doesn't end. While some of the content is graphic and the subject matter is pinful to read, the book is worth the read.
Disturbing but Satisfying 
2008-02-12 - In Vanish, Tess Gerritsen does an admirable job of painting a picture of the horrors of white slavery in the United States. The first focus is on the heart-wrenching story of one of the young women lured to our country under false pretenses to become imprisoned as a sexual slave. The second focus is on the two admirable protagonists from other Garritsen novels, the feisty detective Jane Rizzoli and intense medical examiner Maura Isles. The comfort provided by these familiar characters helps to offset the truly disturbing experiences of the young woman, and those who seek to murder her to keep secret a hideous crime she witnesses. Tension mounts and provides the reader with a good deal of excitement, up to the last page of the novel, a talent Gerritsen has displayed many times. She is skilled at weaving the back story of the young girl Mila with the efforts of Rizzoli and Isles to get at the truth of the situation. As in The Bone Garden, the author does well in moving from the present to the past and back again, to gives clues for the reader to both understand the story and be caught up in the momentum of non-stop and fast-moving events.
Read it and make a few hours 'Vanish' 
2007-12-31 - This is the second 'Rizzoli/Isles' book I've read...but the first one must not have been very memorable, since I quickly forgot it! This one stands out a bit more, anyway. A 'change of pace' thriller, which takes Rizzoli out of her usual 'street crime/serial killer' element, and endangers the lives of her entire family. The 'crooked defense contractor' and 'Russian prositute' angles are not exactly original, but at least Gerritsen manages to make them seem less cloying than other authors might have. I do prefer 'cop dramas' to be just that, and stay away from the convenient 'terrorism and in-fighting government agencies' stories that have proliferated in crime fiction since 9-11.
Maura seems like too much of a background character, as Jane and Gabriel get most of the action. Mila manages to rise above the cardboard cutouts of the other prostitutes, making this an above-average read.
