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Medical examiner Maura Isles returns in another thriller that joins past and present. In the present, in the backyard of Julia Hamill's old Boston house, a long-buried body is unearthed. In 1830, long before the invention of the term serial killer, medical student Norris Marshall is accused of being a mass murderer. To dig himself out from under suspicion, Norris seeks help from a fellow student, one Oliver Wendell Holmes. Together they pursue the cold-hearted killer, while, in the present day, Julia Hamill tries to find out the identity of the body buried in her backyard. As her fans well know, this is not Gerritsen's first shot at combining the modern and the historical. Yet it reads as though it might be: it's clunky, with overly familiar plotting and an attempt at 1830s-era dialogue that's often painful to the ear. Incorporating real people into historical fiction is a well-worn device, and while the author succeeds in bringing Holmes vividly to life, she doesn't really do anything particularly special with him—a fictional character would have served the story just as well. This is a passable thriller—Gerritsen does generate a fair amount of suspense—but it fails to come together on any level beyond plot. Recommendable, finally, only because the author's many fans will want to read it. Pitt, David
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Julia Hamill gräbt gerade den Garten ihres kürzlich erworbenen Hauses um, als sie einen grausigen Fund macht: den skelettierten Schädel eines Menschen. Mit den Mitteln der modernen Gerichtsmedizin kann Dr. Maura Isles die harten Fakten schnell bestimmen: Die Leiche ist knapp zweihundert Jahre alt eine Frau, die ganz offensichtlich einem Mord zum Opfer fiel. Doch wer ist die unbekannte Tote? Und wer hat sie im Garten des alten Hauses verscharrt? Diese Fragen lassen Julia Hamill keine Ruhe, und sie beginnt, auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln. Eine alte Kassette voller Dokumente führt sie dabei in die Vergangenheit Bostons zu den ersten Versuchen, mithilfe von Forensik, Pathologie und Autopsien einen Kriminalfall zu lösen. Und zu dem Medizinstudenten Norris Marshall, der hofft, einen gefährlichen Frauenmörder zu stellen und, vom Ehrgeiz verblendet, seine einzige Zeugin in höchste Gefahr bringt.
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If you are a devoted Tess Gerritsen fan who loves Dr. Maura Isles using forensic anthropology to solve murders, please be aware that this book isn't in that vein. Instead, this book is more like a typical historical detective novel about murder in Victorian London by Anne Perry.
Ms. Gerritsen chooses to enrich her mystery by informing you about medical science of the time, before medical schools were well endowed with legal sources of cadavers and the germ theory of disease was unknown. If you don't care to learn about medicine in 1830, you'll probably think this is a two or three star book. If you have a weak stomach, you'll downgrade the book; there's a lot of pushing the gruesome and unpleasant in front of you for effect. Those looking for suspense rather than in intellectual puzzle should definitely look elsewhere.
A newly divorced woman, Julia Hamill, is digging the rocks out of her garden in Weston, Massachusetts when she uncovers a skull. The medical examiner's office is called and determines that this isn't a recent death. Julia wants to know how this skull came to reside on her property and finds clues through contact with the former owner's family. This leads to reading old papers that include letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes that describe a mystery from the 1830s.
From there, most of the book is spent in flashback. The flashback opens as a young mother, Aurnia, is having trouble giving birth while new mothers all around her are dying of childbed fever. Her doctor prescribes more bleedings, which only make her weaker. After a difficult forceps' delivery, the nurse immediately arranges to send the baby to the infant asylum because Aurnia is too weak to nurse and her husband has signed away rights to the baby. But Aurnia's sister, Rose Connolly, is determined to keep the baby.
We also meet Norris Marshall, the poor son of a Belmont, Massachusetts farmer who earns his medical school tuition and spending money by digging up the recently dead to provide cadavers for the medical school. He's a star in dissection because of his experience with animals. But he feels at a loss compared to his social superiors who are seeking medical degrees to gain a good livelihood or social position . . . or to please their families. One of his classmates is Oliver Wendell Holmes, the physician-poet father of the famous Supreme Court justice.
After the baby's birth, someone begins killing the medical and nursing staffs in a bizarre way. Suspicion soon falls on Norris who finds he needs Rose's help to clear his name. They soon find that they cannot trust anyone and are fighting for their very lives.
Dr. Gerritsen takes more of a physician's approach to this work than a novelist's view. Her characters are poorly developed in most cases. She relies on simple emotion (saving a new baby from harm) as the main appeal of the story while dragging you through all kinds of rottenness for shock's sake rather than story development. The story develops quite slowly in all of its dimensions.
If you have any familiarity with Boston and medicine in 1830, you won't find many surprises here. As a result, the plot becomes merely a scaffolding for unveiling what is already clear well in advance.
Why did I rate The Bone Garden as above average? I thought that the dual mysteries (pasts and present) were well integrated into a smooth combination that was satisfying. Having also worked with people who have old documents, I found that part of the current story to be very credible. Clearly, the book's design was a serious attempt to write a historical mystery with some educational content, and I thought that attempt also helped set the book above the average historical novel that I read.
Wash your hands!
Ms. Gerritsen chooses to enrich her mystery by informing you about medical science of the time, before medical schools were well endowed with legal sources of cadavers and the germ theory of disease was unknown. If you don't care to learn about medicine in 1830, you'll probably think this is a two or three star book. If you have a weak stomach, you'll downgrade the book; there's a lot of pushing the gruesome and unpleasant in front of you for effect. Those looking for suspense rather than in intellectual puzzle should definitely look elsewhere.
A newly divorced woman, Julia Hamill, is digging the rocks out of her garden in Weston, Massachusetts when she uncovers a skull. The medical examiner's office is called and determines that this isn't a recent death. Julia wants to know how this skull came to reside on her property and finds clues through contact with the former owner's family. This leads to reading old papers that include letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes that describe a mystery from the 1830s.
From there, most of the book is spent in flashback. The flashback opens as a young mother, Aurnia, is having trouble giving birth while new mothers all around her are dying of childbed fever. Her doctor prescribes more bleedings, which only make her weaker. After a difficult forceps' delivery, the nurse immediately arranges to send the baby to the infant asylum because Aurnia is too weak to nurse and her husband has signed away rights to the baby. But Aurnia's sister, Rose Connolly, is determined to keep the baby.
We also meet Norris Marshall, the poor son of a Belmont, Massachusetts farmer who earns his medical school tuition and spending money by digging up the recently dead to provide cadavers for the medical school. He's a star in dissection because of his experience with animals. But he feels at a loss compared to his social superiors who are seeking medical degrees to gain a good livelihood or social position . . . or to please their families. One of his classmates is Oliver Wendell Holmes, the physician-poet father of the famous Supreme Court justice.
After the baby's birth, someone begins killing the medical and nursing staffs in a bizarre way. Suspicion soon falls on Norris who finds he needs Rose's help to clear his name. They soon find that they cannot trust anyone and are fighting for their very lives.
Dr. Gerritsen takes more of a physician's approach to this work than a novelist's view. Her characters are poorly developed in most cases. She relies on simple emotion (saving a new baby from harm) as the main appeal of the story while dragging you through all kinds of rottenness for shock's sake rather than story development. The story develops quite slowly in all of its dimensions.
If you have any familiarity with Boston and medicine in 1830, you won't find many surprises here. As a result, the plot becomes merely a scaffolding for unveiling what is already clear well in advance.
Why did I rate The Bone Garden as above average? I thought that the dual mysteries (pasts and present) were well integrated into a smooth combination that was satisfying. Having also worked with people who have old documents, I found that part of the current story to be very credible. Clearly, the book's design was a serious attempt to write a historical mystery with some educational content, and I thought that attempt also helped set the book above the average historical novel that I read.
Wash your hands!
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If you are a devoted Tess Gerritsen fan who loves Dr. Maura Isles using forensic anthropology to solve murders, please be aware that this book isn't in that vein. Instead, this book is more like a typical historical detective novel about murder in Victorian London by Anne Perry.
Ms. Gerritsen chooses to enrich her mystery by informing you about medical science of the time, before medical schools were well endowed with legal sources of cadavers and the germ theory of disease was unknown. If you don't care to learn about medicine in 1830, you'll probably think this is a two or three star book. If you have a weak stomach, you'll downgrade the book; there's a lot of pushing the gruesome and unpleasant in front of you for effect. Those looking for suspense rather than in intellectual puzzle should definitely look elsewhere.
A newly divorced woman, Julia Hamill, is digging the rocks out of her garden in Weston, Massachusetts when she uncovers a skull. The medical examiner's office is called and determines that this isn't a recent death. Julia wants to know how this skull came to reside on her property and finds clues through contact with the former owner's family. This leads to reading old papers that include letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes that describe a mystery from the 1830s.
From there, most of the book is spent in flashback. The flashback opens as a young mother, Aurnia, is having trouble giving birth while new mothers all around her are dying of childbed fever. Her doctor prescribes more bleedings, which only make her weaker. After a difficult forceps' delivery, the nurse immediately arranges to send the baby to the infant asylum because Aurnia is too weak to nurse and her husband has signed away rights to the baby. But Aurnia's sister, Rose Connolly, is determined to keep the baby.
We also meet Norris Marshall, the poor son of a Belmont, Massachusetts farmer who earns his medical school tuition and spending money by digging up the recently dead to provide cadavers for the medical school. He's a star in dissection because of his experience with animals. But he feels at a loss compared to his social superiors who are seeking medical degrees to gain a good livelihood or social position . . . or to please their families. One of his classmates is Oliver Wendell Holmes, the physician-poet father of the famous Supreme Court justice.
After the baby's birth, someone begins killing the medical and nursing staffs in a bizarre way. Suspicion soon falls on Norris who finds he needs Rose's help to clear his name. They soon find that they cannot trust anyone and are fighting for their very lives.
Dr. Gerritsen takes more of a physician's approach to this work than a novelist's view. Her characters are poorly developed in most cases. She relies on simple emotion (saving a new baby from harm) as the main appeal of the story while dragging you through all kinds of rottenness for shock's sake rather than story development. The story develops quite slowly in all of its dimensions.
If you have any familiarity with Boston and medicine in 1830, you won't find many surprises here. As a result, the plot becomes merely a scaffolding for unveiling what is already clear well in advance.
Why did I rate The Bone Garden as above average? I thought that the dual mysteries (pasts and present) were well integrated into a smooth combination that was satisfying. Having also worked with people who have old documents, I found that part of the current story to be very credible. Clearly, the book's design was a serious attempt to write a historical mystery with some educational content, and I thought that attempt also helped set the book above the average historical novel that I read.
Wash your hands!
Ms. Gerritsen chooses to enrich her mystery by informing you about medical science of the time, before medical schools were well endowed with legal sources of cadavers and the germ theory of disease was unknown. If you don't care to learn about medicine in 1830, you'll probably think this is a two or three star book. If you have a weak stomach, you'll downgrade the book; there's a lot of pushing the gruesome and unpleasant in front of you for effect. Those looking for suspense rather than in intellectual puzzle should definitely look elsewhere.
A newly divorced woman, Julia Hamill, is digging the rocks out of her garden in Weston, Massachusetts when she uncovers a skull. The medical examiner's office is called and determines that this isn't a recent death. Julia wants to know how this skull came to reside on her property and finds clues through contact with the former owner's family. This leads to reading old papers that include letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes that describe a mystery from the 1830s.
From there, most of the book is spent in flashback. The flashback opens as a young mother, Aurnia, is having trouble giving birth while new mothers all around her are dying of childbed fever. Her doctor prescribes more bleedings, which only make her weaker. After a difficult forceps' delivery, the nurse immediately arranges to send the baby to the infant asylum because Aurnia is too weak to nurse and her husband has signed away rights to the baby. But Aurnia's sister, Rose Connolly, is determined to keep the baby.
We also meet Norris Marshall, the poor son of a Belmont, Massachusetts farmer who earns his medical school tuition and spending money by digging up the recently dead to provide cadavers for the medical school. He's a star in dissection because of his experience with animals. But he feels at a loss compared to his social superiors who are seeking medical degrees to gain a good livelihood or social position . . . or to please their families. One of his classmates is Oliver Wendell Holmes, the physician-poet father of the famous Supreme Court justice.
After the baby's birth, someone begins killing the medical and nursing staffs in a bizarre way. Suspicion soon falls on Norris who finds he needs Rose's help to clear his name. They soon find that they cannot trust anyone and are fighting for their very lives.
Dr. Gerritsen takes more of a physician's approach to this work than a novelist's view. Her characters are poorly developed in most cases. She relies on simple emotion (saving a new baby from harm) as the main appeal of the story while dragging you through all kinds of rottenness for shock's sake rather than story development. The story develops quite slowly in all of its dimensions.
If you have any familiarity with Boston and medicine in 1830, you won't find many surprises here. As a result, the plot becomes merely a scaffolding for unveiling what is already clear well in advance.
Why did I rate The Bone Garden as above average? I thought that the dual mysteries (pasts and present) were well integrated into a smooth combination that was satisfying. Having also worked with people who have old documents, I found that part of the current story to be very credible. Clearly, the book's design was a serious attempt to write a historical mystery with some educational content, and I thought that attempt also helped set the book above the average historical novel that I read.
Wash your hands!
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Nach 6 Jane Rizzoli-Thrillern gönnt Tess Gerritsen ihren Serienheldinnen Maura Isles und Jane Rizzoli eine kurze Verschnaufpause. Nur Maura kommt am Beginn von "The Bone Garden" quasi in einem Gastauftritt kurz vor.
Die Lehrerin Julia Hamill ist mit ihren 38 Jahren gerade einmal ein halbes Jahr geschieden, als sie einen verhängnisvollen Impulskauf wagt. Ein 150 Jahre altes Haus, mit einem 4000 m² Grundstück und verwilderten Garten. In der Aufarbeitung des Gartens hofft Julia in den Sommerferien Ablenkung zu finden, doch schon bald macht sie eine schockierende Entdeckung, denn ein Stein entpuppt sich als Schädel und das Rechtsmedizinische Institut fördert das dazugehörende Skellett einer Frau aus dem 19. Jahrhundert zu Tage. Doch wer ist diese namenlose Frau, die einfach verscharrt wurde? Mit Hilfe des Cousins und Familienchronisten, der Vorbesitzern ihres Hauses, begibt sich Julia auf eine Reise in das Boston des Jahres 1830.
Das irische Einwanderermädchen Rose Conolly muss miterleben wie ihre Schwester an Kindbettfieber stirbt und schwört sich alles zu tun, um nun ihre neugeborene Nichte zu beschützen. Doch schon bald erschüttert eine Mordserie die Stadt und fordert das Leben der Geburtshelfer von Rose' Nichte. Dabei gerät der begabte Medizinstudent Norris Marshall in das Visier der Nachtwache, ist er doch als Farmersohn auch im Schlachterhandwerk geübt und ohne reiche oder einflussreiche Familie ein leichtes Opfer für die Justiz...
The Bone Garden hat sich die Bezeichnung als historischer Thriller mehr als verdient. Wie in den Jane Rizzoli-Thrillern praktiziert verwebt Tess Gerritsen gekonnt zwei Handlungsbögen miteinander, von denen einer normalerweise "nur" die Hintergründe enthüllt, diesmal aber im Zentrum der Handlung steht. Die Handlung um Julia Hamill dient lediglich dem Zweck. Sehr plastisch und realistisch geschriebenen, versetzt the Bone Garden seine Leser direkt in das Boston des 19. Jahrhunderts und berichtet nicht nur vom Alltag der Medizinstudenten, sondern auch wie diese zu ihren "Schulungsmaterial", also Leichen, kommen.
Nach 18 Büchern, davon 6 mit Jane Rizzoli, hat Tess Gerritsen einen beachtlichen Erfahrungsschatz und stilistische Reife entwickelt, dennoch wagt sie es noch nicht gänzlich auf Love-Elemente zu verzichten, vielleicht auch um ihren Stil treu zu bleiben. Der Titel "Bone Garden" legt außerdem falsche Schlüsse zur Handlung nahe, denkt man dabei doch vielleicht an einen Gräbergarten und mehrere Skelette. Spannend ist das Werk dessen ungeachtet bis zur letzten Seite, viele Überraschungen und Handlungswendungen machen den Plot unvorhersehbar und lassen den Leser regelrecht süchtig danach werden, so dass man unbedingt wissen möchte, wie es weiter geht.
Fazit:
Auch ohne Jane Rizzoli ein hochspannendes und faszinierendes Buch. Dichte Atmosphäre, sehr plastische Darstellungen und ein wendungsreicher, kaum vorhersehbarer Plot machen The Bone Garden zu einem hervorragenden historischen Thriller, womit Tess Gerritsen einmal mehr ihr Können unter Beweis stellt.
Die Lehrerin Julia Hamill ist mit ihren 38 Jahren gerade einmal ein halbes Jahr geschieden, als sie einen verhängnisvollen Impulskauf wagt. Ein 150 Jahre altes Haus, mit einem 4000 m² Grundstück und verwilderten Garten. In der Aufarbeitung des Gartens hofft Julia in den Sommerferien Ablenkung zu finden, doch schon bald macht sie eine schockierende Entdeckung, denn ein Stein entpuppt sich als Schädel und das Rechtsmedizinische Institut fördert das dazugehörende Skellett einer Frau aus dem 19. Jahrhundert zu Tage. Doch wer ist diese namenlose Frau, die einfach verscharrt wurde? Mit Hilfe des Cousins und Familienchronisten, der Vorbesitzern ihres Hauses, begibt sich Julia auf eine Reise in das Boston des Jahres 1830.
Das irische Einwanderermädchen Rose Conolly muss miterleben wie ihre Schwester an Kindbettfieber stirbt und schwört sich alles zu tun, um nun ihre neugeborene Nichte zu beschützen. Doch schon bald erschüttert eine Mordserie die Stadt und fordert das Leben der Geburtshelfer von Rose' Nichte. Dabei gerät der begabte Medizinstudent Norris Marshall in das Visier der Nachtwache, ist er doch als Farmersohn auch im Schlachterhandwerk geübt und ohne reiche oder einflussreiche Familie ein leichtes Opfer für die Justiz...
The Bone Garden hat sich die Bezeichnung als historischer Thriller mehr als verdient. Wie in den Jane Rizzoli-Thrillern praktiziert verwebt Tess Gerritsen gekonnt zwei Handlungsbögen miteinander, von denen einer normalerweise "nur" die Hintergründe enthüllt, diesmal aber im Zentrum der Handlung steht. Die Handlung um Julia Hamill dient lediglich dem Zweck. Sehr plastisch und realistisch geschriebenen, versetzt the Bone Garden seine Leser direkt in das Boston des 19. Jahrhunderts und berichtet nicht nur vom Alltag der Medizinstudenten, sondern auch wie diese zu ihren "Schulungsmaterial", also Leichen, kommen.
Nach 18 Büchern, davon 6 mit Jane Rizzoli, hat Tess Gerritsen einen beachtlichen Erfahrungsschatz und stilistische Reife entwickelt, dennoch wagt sie es noch nicht gänzlich auf Love-Elemente zu verzichten, vielleicht auch um ihren Stil treu zu bleiben. Der Titel "Bone Garden" legt außerdem falsche Schlüsse zur Handlung nahe, denkt man dabei doch vielleicht an einen Gräbergarten und mehrere Skelette. Spannend ist das Werk dessen ungeachtet bis zur letzten Seite, viele Überraschungen und Handlungswendungen machen den Plot unvorhersehbar und lassen den Leser regelrecht süchtig danach werden, so dass man unbedingt wissen möchte, wie es weiter geht.
Fazit:
Auch ohne Jane Rizzoli ein hochspannendes und faszinierendes Buch. Dichte Atmosphäre, sehr plastische Darstellungen und ein wendungsreicher, kaum vorhersehbarer Plot machen The Bone Garden zu einem hervorragenden historischen Thriller, womit Tess Gerritsen einmal mehr ihr Können unter Beweis stellt.
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Medizinhistorie & Thrillerelemente: ein gelungener Cocktail
Dieses Buch gehört nicht zur Reihe um Jane Rizzoli. Auch Maura Isles kommt nur ganz kurz vor.
Die Handlung spielt auf zwei Zeitebenen. Lesen Sie weiter...
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Vor 10 Monaten von €nigma veröffentlicht
Disappointing...
As a great fan of Tess Gerritsen, I was a bit disappointed after reading The Bone Garden. The story covered two different time lines, one in the present and one in the 1830s. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 15 Monaten von KLNSP veröffentlicht
Ein packendes Buch
"The Bone Garden" ist das erste Buch, dass ich von Tess Gerritsen gelesen habe. Was soll ich sagen? Ich habe gleich zwei weitere Bücher dieser Autorin bestellt! Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 21 Monaten von Beatrice Lerch veröffentlicht
Gerritsen - eine Erfolgsautorin und das zu Recht
Spannung vom Feinsten mit dem etwas primitiven amerikanischen Englisch - daher leicht lesbar auch für Germanen
Veröffentlicht am 14. Februar 2010 von Wolfgang Kohlhofer
Interessanter Thriller über Serienkiller um 1830 in Boston
Julia Hamill kauft nach ihrer Scheidung ein altes Haus in der Nähe von Boston mit einem großen Grundstück, das sie selber wieder herrichten will. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Juni 2009 von G. Bogner
Sehr spannend
Ein faszinierendes Buch mit zwei Handlungssträngen, wobei der historische Teil sehr spannend ist und mit überraschenden Wendungen aufwartet. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Januar 2009 von CNN
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!
Tess Gerritsen took a totally different type of story and made it as exciting, fascinating and as un-put-downable as all her others. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. November 2007 von Brian Adamek
Enttäuschend!!
Oh, Himmel, Tess, was ist in dich gefahren?? In ihrem neusten Thriller (ich nehme jedenfalls an, dass es so was sein soll) vermischt Tess Gerritsen eine Jack-the-Ripper-Story, die... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. September 2007 von Semna-Thea
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