Friends & Fiction with Tess Gerritsen

Our guest on this LIVE episode of our wed night web show is none other than the internationally bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, TessGerritsen!Dubbed her the “medical suspense queen” by Publishers Weekly, Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess earned her MD at UC San Francisco and began to write fiction while on maternity leave as a physician. Since publishing her first novel in 1987, she has been a top-three US bestseller and hit #1 abroad, she has won the Nero Wolfe Award and the RITA Award, and she has sold more than 40-million copies of her books in 40 countries. Her beloved series featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the TNT television series “Rizzoli and Isles,” starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander. Tess joins us from her home in Maine to discuss her latest pulse-pounding thriller, the first in a new series, THE SPY COAST (Thomas and Mercer, Nov 1), which has been met with rave reviews.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.