Tess Gerritsen Fans discussion

The Keepsake is book #7 in the Rizzoli/Isles Series and was published in 2008. Here is my review:

Watch out Patricia Cornwell! Tess Gerritsen is at the top of her game with The Keepsake - the best novel I've read in a long time! I was really impressed with Gerritsen's The Bone Garden: A Novel published 2007, and thought it was her finest work to date, but The Keepsake may be even better! I am a slow reader, and was able to read the 349 pages of The Keepsake in less than a week. Chapters 17,18, and 19 seemed a little slow to me but the rest of the book is full of surprises!

One thing that helps make this book so great is having Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles working together again. The Crispin Museum serves as a great setting for a novel featuring Mummification, Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem. As an added bonus to a fascinating story, readers learn how the process of mummification works, how to create a "bog body" and are given detailed instruction on how to make a shrinking head (please don't practice these methods on your neighbors!). Also in The Keepsake, we learn the dire consequences of having a disorganized museum of freaky items that you can't account for.



The Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen

And it's a really good one :-)

after reading this book, I really thought about whether or not to renew my muesum membership. CREAPY stuff!

I loved it! Ice Cold sounds very good too :-)

The Keepsake Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_hVyZ...

I'm re-reading The Keepsake now. I like how each book seems to have an opening scene without Maura or Jane in it, and readers have to figure out how this voice fits into the story.

Just finished this book, this weekend and funnily enough there is a show on TV here tonight about an obscure museum in Boston.

Tess does some amazing research, and I feel like I am learning something as well as being creeped-out at the same time

comfort wrote: "Tess does some amazing research, and I feel like I am learning something as well as being creeped-out at the same time "

Yes! The Keepsake is my #1 favorite of Tess's books - my second favorite is The Bone Garden. I would love to visit the Crispin Museum :-)

I am currently reading The Keepsake and I just got to the part where she introduces the (fictional) character of Pieter van den Brink who tells about the Yde girl. Being Dutch (and curious) I googled the Yde girl and the Drents museum in Assen and I definitely intend to visit the museum next time I go to Drenthe. I am really impressed with Tess Gerritsen's amazing research and it is great to read about the existance of a museum I can actually go and visit.

The Keepsake has been chosen as our July/August 2012 Group Read. Please consider reading or re-reading this exciting story with us :-)

THE KEEPSAKE is finally going to be published in Brazil! In a few days. Maybe I can catch up with the group. :) Currently, I am reading Life Support, which is really good!

I just finished reading The Keepsake tonight (7/17/2012) and literally just saw this group tonight when I was looking at comments about Ice Cold, which I actually started within minutes of finishing The Keepsake. I found it interesting to see that The Keepsake was your group read for July/August. I really liked the book, but I can't honestly say it's my favorite out of the 7 I've read thus far (I'm reading them in order). I think Vanished is probably my favorite thus far. The Keepsake was good though and definitely kept me on the edge of my seat (or bed when I was reading there, lol).

So Kim you are reading Ice Cold now? That was my favorite out of the series.

Tracy, I just finished it earlier today and I think I have to afree that it is now my favorite. :)

I've got The Keepsake Audiobook from the library - will start sometime :-)

To be honest at first I wasn't sure if I was going to like or love this book. I love how right about on the middle of the books it picks up like that! I like the keepsake so far I'm actually almost done with it, I don't know if it will be my favorite but I am anticipating getting my hands on ice cold!

I read a comment from about two years ago about how Tess does so much research and I must say I totally agree. That's one of my favorite parts of reading her books, its not only a crime thriller but I also feel like I'm learning as well. I can't remember which book either the surgeon or the apprentice I believe they talk about meat tags, it actually came up in a conversation I was having and the other person was like how did you know that?! (he is active military)

I like that each of the books can be so different covering such a range topics/genres and yet be the same series with the same familiar characters. It has been a fun journey :-)

I'm starting the last of the Rizzoli & Isles series and will take my time with it while waiting for the next book. I've listened to all these on CD and they have gotten me thru rush hour traffic!

I've just finished The Keepsake for the second time, as I'm reading the series in order now and loved it. My fav so far. I forgot how good a story it is.

Curlyhair wrote: "I've just finished The Keepsake for the second time, as I'm reading the series in order now and loved it. My fav so far. I forgot how good a story it is."

Awesome! :-)