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A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on them before finishing them off. His surgical skills lead police to suspect he is a physician - a physician who, instead of saving lives, takes them.

But as homicide detective Thomas Moore and his partner Jane Rizzoli begin their investigation, they make a startling discovery. Closely linked to these killings is Catherine Cordell, a beautiful doctor with a mysterious past. Two years ago she was subjected to a horrifying rape and shot her attacker dead.

Now the man she believes she killed seems to be stalking her once again, and this time he knows exactly where to find her...

Setting
Boston, Massachusetts

Prologue
27 Chapters
Epilogue

Character List
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Thomas Moore: Boston Police Department homicide detective assigned to The Surgeon case. His colleagues refer to him as Saint Thomas the Serene.
Catherine Cordell: Trauma surgeon who survived a brutal assault and killed the man who attacked her.
Marquette: Lieutenant over the homicide unit.
Jerry Sleeper: Boston Police Department homicide detective and Thomas’ partner.
Jane Rizzoli: Boston Police Department homicide detective and Barry’s partner.
Barry Frost: Boston Police Department homicide detective and Jane’s partner.
Darren Crowe: Boston Police Department homicide detective.
Mark Singer: Savannah detective in charge of the Capra/Cordell case.
Ashford Tierney: Medical examiner.
Lawrence Zucker: Criminal psychologist from Northeastern University and consultant for the BPD.
Alex Polochek: Forensic hypnotist.
Erin Volchko: Forensic scientist in Hair and Fiber.
Sean Brody: Tech whiz for the BPD.
Peter Falco: Catherine’s surgical partner.
Helen: Catherine’s receptionist.
Ken Kimball: ER doctor.
Warren Hoyt: Diagnostic blood technician.
Diana Sterling: Surgeon victim #1. Murder victim from a year ago. She was an employee of a travel agency.
Elena Ortiz: Surgeon victim #2. Murder victim whose wounds look like that of Diana Sterling.
Anna Garcia: Elena’s sister.
Nina Peyton: Surgeon victim #3. She was still alive when found. She’s a sales rep for Lawrence Scientific Supplies.
Dora Ciccone: Capra’s first victim. She was a 22-year old grad student at Emory.
Andrew Capra: Doctor who attacked Catherine and was shot by her during the assault.
Karl Pacheco: Man who raped Nina Peyton before her assault by the Surgeon.
Herman Gwadowsky: Catherine’s coma patient.
Dr. Kahn: Emory University Medical School professor.
Winnie Bliss: Secretary at Emory University Medical School Office of Student Affairs.
Mary Moore: Thomas’ deceased wife.
Rose Connelly: Thomas’s mother-in-law.
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Spoiler Info
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Rizzoli shot Pacheco when he had his hands raised in surrender. She unloaded her gun into him and was assigned desk duty after Moore reported the incident to Marquette. She retaliated by telling Marquette that Moore was sleeping with Catherine.

Warren Hoyt was the Surgeon. He was being trained by Capra and was at Catherine’s house the night of her assault in Savannah. He delivered the kill shot to Capra.

Hoyt started medical school with Capra at Emory but was kicked out when the teaching doctor found him masturbating over a female cadaver while holding her uterus over her mutilated body.

Rizzoli found Hoyt’s lair by tracking his ATM withdrawals to a town outside of Boston. He trapped her and was about to slit her throat when Catherine used Rizzoli’s gun to shoot him. He survived.

Catherine and Thomas married. (hide spoiler)]