Tess Gerritsen is an internationally bestselling author who took an unexpected path to writing. A Stanford graduate and M.D. from UC San Francisco, she began writing fiction while on maternity leave from her work as a physician. Her first novel, Call After Midnight, was published in 1987, launching a 36-year career that now includes 32 suspense novels and a screenplay for the CBS Movie of the Week Adrift.
Her 1996 medical thriller Harvest was her breakout hit, landing on the New York Times bestseller list. Since then, her novels—including Gravity, The Surgeon, Vanish, Listen to Me, and the upcoming The Spy Coast—have sold over 40 million copies and been translated into 40 languages. The Spy Coast is currently being developed as a TV series by Amazon Studios.
Her beloved Rizzoli & Isles series inspired the long-running TNT show of the same name. She lives in Maine.
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