Finding a cure is paramount, as well as finding the culprits who unleashed this horrible plague. Toby Harper as he attempts to contain an unstoppable virus terrorizing his quiet overnight shift at the hospital. The story follows emergency room physician Dr.

Her sophomore effort, the crime thriller Life Support, garnered wide critical and commercial success, and fully cemented her reputation as a premier writer in the thriller genre. This led to her publishing three subsequent medical thrillers, all of which became bestsellers in their own right. It was published in the year 1996, and was inspired by a conversation she had had with a retired homicide detective.

Tess Gerritsen’s first medical thriller, Harvest, was written after she had decided to change genres, and garnered immediate success, eventually gaining the number 13 spot of the New York Times bestseller list. Influenced but her own extensive technical knowledge and natural talent with the English language to transition to more work with a more serious tone, abandoning the genre of romantic thrillers in 1996. In the year 1987, Harlequin Publishing bought the rights to her first professional romance thriller, Call After Midnight, and for almost a decade published a steady stream of romantic thrillers written by Tess Gerritsen. While practicing medicine, Tess Gerritsen was deeply interested in reading romances, so naturally, she gravitated towards that genre for her first forays into novel writing. After winning an award of 500 US dollars for a short story she wrote in her spare time, she decided to pursue writing less as a valued hobby and more professionally. After moving to Honolulu, she began practicing medicine full-time, while still treasuring writing as a way to escape from daily life and as a kind of therapy. She went on to earn her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco in the year 1979. She studied Anthropology at her undergraduate alma mater, Stanford University, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in the year 1975. About Tess Gerritsenīorn in San Diego, California to Chinese American parents, she longed for a career as a writer, but her parents were skeptical that a writer’s salary could be lucrative, leading her to pursue a different course. Together they have two children, both sons. She enjoys fiddling and gardening at her home in New England, and is married to Dr. Tess Gerritsen was born in San Diego, and educated at the Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco. She is a dynamic and multi-talented writer, and her published material contains bright instances of humor as well as dark and intricate plots, astounding technical elements and exceptional attention to detail.ĭr. Tess Gerritsen is one of the premier authors in the medical and crime thriller genres.

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