The Keepsake

A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Deirdre Lovejoy

Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen knows how to expertly dissect a brilliantly suspenseful story, all the while keeping fascinated readers riveted to her side. By turns darkly enthralling and relentlessly surprising, The Keepsake showcases an author at the peak of her storytelling powers.

For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Boston’s Crispin Museum. Now its sudden rediscovery by museum staff is both a major coup and an attention-grabbing mystery. Dubbed “Madam X,” the mummy–to all appearances, an ancient Egyptian artifact–seems a ghoulish godsend for the financially struggling institution. But medical examiner Maura Isles soon discovers a macabre message hidden within the corpse–horrifying proof that this “centuries-old” relic is instead a modern-day murder victim.

To Maura and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, the forensic evidence is unmistakable, its implications terrifying. And when the grisly remains of yet another woman are found in the hidden recesses of the museum, it becomes chillingly clear that a maniac is at large–and is now taunting them.

Archaeologist Josephine Pulcillo’s blood runs cold when the killer’s cryptic missives are discovered, and her darkest dread becomes real when the carefully preserved corpse of yet a third victim is left in her car like a gruesome offering–or perhaps a ghastly promise of what’s to come.The twisted killer’s familiarity with post-mortem rituals suggests to Maura and Jane that he may have scientific expertise in common with Josephine. Only Josephine knows that her stalker shares a knowledge even more personally terrifying: details of a dark secret she had thought forever buried.

Now Maura must summon her own dusty knowledge of ancient death traditions to unravel his twisted endgame. And when Josephine vanishes, Maura and Jane have precious little time to derail the Archaeology Killer before he adds another chilling piece to his monstrous collection.

©2008 Tess Gerritsen (P)2008 Random House

Great book... HORRIBLE NARRATOR

This is, by far, my favourite Tess Gerritsen book. I thoroughly enjoyed this book but the narrator's voice almost ruined it for me. I highly recommend this audiobook as long as you can get past the narrator's voice. With her reading, it's so hard to distinguish between who's speaking because they all sound the same! I found myself "rewinding" or scrolling back ever so often to figure out which character was actually speaking.
But to end on a positive note, this book is simply great :)

Tess Gerritsen did it again!

She keep me throughly glued to this book! She is amazing ! Can't wait to listen to Ice Cold!! Thank you

Loved the story

The author was good but her speech impediment with S's was irritating. I don't know how Tess keeps writing such awesome stories.

Excellent Story, Bad Narration!

The book is a good read and interesting, but the narration is boring. She mispronounces names and words and drones on and on, making the story uninteresting. This book should be narrated by Tanya Eby :)

Unusual plot that kept me guessing

Enjoyable suspense novel. T.G kept a lot of her ongoing characters & continued their development. This was great. The plot was a bit belabored at points from what I'm accustomed to from T.G. which is why I only gave it 4 stars. There's evidence of lots of archeology research which was very interesting. The narrator differentiated well enough to keep up with the various characters so that made it easy to follow. I'm glad I bought the book.

Eerie

Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli and Isles series is more about suspense and borderline macabre stories than it is about police procedure or detective work. This book takes that to a higher level than even The Surgeon, or Body Double did, complete with a set of fiends as bad or worse than any featured in the previous stories. On the downside this book spends far too much time focusing on points of anthropology and the doomed before it began romance of Doctor Isles has grown way more tedious than interesting; move on girlfriend. Overall The Keepsake was weaker than any selection in the series since The Sinner; still this series is one of the better ones in the Audible library; maybe just skip the aforementioned pair.

Terrific book

I hope and pray that a "Jimmy" doesn't really exist. The twists and turns of the plot keep you glued to the story. Great ending too.

A good entertaining listen!

Love the series and enjoyed this book. Well read with a couple of twists. Would recommend to anyone who enjoys Rissoli and Isles.

what heappened to Isles?

Would you listen to The Keepsake again? Why?

Not the typical Rizzoli and Isles story. Isles basically missing. Too detail on the Egyptology part.

Great story

Not knowing anything about corps preservation, the story is written with enough details to make it believable. I saw a few negative remarks about the narrator, I thought she did a good job. Ms. Gerritsen writes pretty good stories and this one is not an exception. I thoroughly enjoyed it.