Bestselling suspense novelist Tess Gerritsen has carved a healthy niche for herself in a region previously populated only by Michael Crichton and Robin Cook. Her medical thrillers--Harvest, Life Support, Bloodstream and Gravity--have reviewers struggling for new adjectives beyond the standard "gripping," "riveting," and "harrowing." In Gerritsen's tense viral and microbial worlds of wonder and threat, tough-minded women overcome seemingly impossible odds: tracking down a black market in human organs in Harvest; uncovering sinister age-rejuvenation experiments in Life Support; battling a plague of violence in Bloodstream; and tackling an intergalactic contagion in Gravity. In all these works, Gerritsen, a former internist who cut her literary teeth penning Harlequin romance and intrigue novels, blends accurate scientific research, emergency room pacing, and edge-of-the seat suspense.
Gerritsen is fast to tell the reader, however, that her books are medical thrillers and not horror novels. Real science is at the heart of all her books. "There are nightmares galore in any textbook of parasitology [for example], things more frightening than anything a novelist could dream up," Gerritsen commented to Amazon.com.
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