It's been a long, long wait for Tess Gerritsen's latest, Ice Cold . Throughout my wait I've been obsessing about the massive spoiler revealed in the jacket blurb. Is it for real or will it turn out to be a fake out because who puts that kind of major development involving a character upon which the series focuses on the book jacket instead of saving it for the mother of all shocking story lines for the unsuspecting reader? That is the conundrum I've been pondering for several months ever since Amazon posted the blurb on the book's page. The first few chapters seem off to a slow start that's compounded by the slight awkwardness of the diction in the first chapters describing what is surely (one way or another) the end of the affair for Dr. Maura Isles and her beloved Father Daniel Brophy (a Catholic priest with whom she's been having an affair for over a year!). Then the story and the suspense crank up into a scary, thrilling page turner that's hard...
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