

Sorry, but you're only perpetuating the misconception that rape is just a kind of unhappy sex. Fucking! A word with excellent shock value! HOWEVER, fucking is sex. I'm assuming it's unused because how would a bunch of men get a used tampon, let alone shove it into a bottle of mineral water, but how could a clean tampon be considered disgusting unless you hate women and/or female bodies?ģ. This is Rizzoli thinking and the "disgusting object" is actually a tampon. So a womb is the thing that makes a woman! Glad we solved that.Ģ.

"He only assaults women who act like victims." (p.247)ġ. No wonder Catherine had been horrified to learn that a man she did not know possessed such an intimate part of her. It carries fragrance and color and texture. More than any woman he'd ever met, she commanded his respect. Above all, he did not want her to think him condescending. 'We blame ourselves for everything, even when it's the man who does the fucking.'" (p.126)Ĥ. I shouldn't have been so careless." But that's how it is with women.' She looked directly at Moore. Ignoring the water bottle and the disgusting object it contained. "He cuts out the one thing that makes them women." (p.60)Ģ. And what he wants is the womb." "He hates women," she said. "He identifies and removes only the organ he wants. Now retired from medicine, she writes full time. Publisher Weekly has dubbed her the "medical suspense queen". She has won both the Nero Wolfe Award (for Vanish) and the Rita Award (for The Surgeon.) Critics around the world have praised her novels as "Pulse-pounding fun" (Philadelphia Inquirer), "Scary and brilliant" (Toronto Globe and Mail), and "Polished, riveting prose" (Chicago Tribune). Her books have been translated into 31 languages, and more than 15 million copies have been sold around the world.Īs well as being a New York Times bestselling author, she has also been a #1 bestseller in both Germany and the UK. Her suspense novels since then have been: Life Support (1997), Bloodstream (1998), Gravity (1999), The Surgeon (2001), The Apprentice (2002), The Sinner (2003), Body Double (2004), Vanish (2005), The Mephisto Club (2006), and The Bone Garden (2007). Tess's first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. She also wrote a screenplay, "Adrift", which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D. Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career.
