"on the TNT series ""Rizzoli & Isles"" – the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Chief Medical Examiner, who works with the Boston Police Department. Alexander costarred with Angie Harmon, who played Boston Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli, Isles' best friend on the show. In 2015, Alexander began a recurring role on Showtime's ""Shameless"" portraying Helene Runyon, one of Lip Gallagher's college professors. Her character Helene maintains an open relationship with her husband Theo (played by Michael Reilly Burke) which allows her to sleep with Lip. The relationship between Helene and Lip is both romantic and one which provides him with guidance in his"
"the body to be that of a fortyish Indian Hansen's Disease victim), it is soon discovered that there is more to these killings than meets the eye. Dr. Victor Banks hooks up with Maura Isles. The Sinner (Gerritsen novel) The Sinner is a 2003 mystery novel by Tess Gerritsen, the third book of the Maura Isles/Jane Rizzoli series. ""The Sinner"" involves Detective Jane Rizzoli and a main character new to the series, first seen in ""The Apprentice"" as a minor figure, medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles. When a young novice nun about to take vows is found murdered in the"
"Rizzoli & Isles Rizzoli & Isles is a TNT television series starring Angie Harmon as police detective Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Alexander as medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles. The one-hour drama is based on the series of ""Rizzoli & Isles"" novels by Tess Gerritsen. It premiered on July 12, 2010, and aired 105 episodes in seven seasons, concluding on September 5, 2016. The series' backstory is inspired by the Maura Isles/Jane Rizzoli series of novels by Tess Gerritsen. Rizzoli appears in the series' first novel, ""The Surgeon"", and Isles is introduced in the second, ""The Apprentice"", which serves as the"
"The Sinner (Gerritsen novel) The Sinner is a 2003 mystery novel by Tess Gerritsen, the third book of the Maura Isles/Jane Rizzoli series. ""The Sinner"" involves Detective Jane Rizzoli and a main character new to the series, first seen in ""The Apprentice"" as a minor figure, medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles. When a young novice nun about to take vows is found murdered in the abbey's summer chapel, Isles and Rizzoli are immediately called to the scene. The elderly nuns are of little help to Isles and Rizzoli but when another body is found, mutilated beyond recognition (and testing reveals"
"The Apprentice (Gerritsen novel) The Apprentice is a 2002 novel written by Tess Gerritsen, second book of the Maura Isles/Jane Rizzoli series. Both the hardcover and paperback editions reached number 10 in ""The New York Times"" Best Seller lists. When Rizzoli investigates a murder where cutting techniques similar to those of imprisoned Warren Hoyt but involving necrophilia (as determined by medical examiner Maura Isles), she is called by FBI Agent Gabriel Dean to Washington, D.C. Dean shows her a list of similar crimes committed in Bosnia, and terms the suspect ""The Dominator"". Hoyt escapes from prison after reading about ""The"
"kidnapped children were being shipped abroad as organ donors. ""Harvest"" was Gerritsen's first hardcover novel, and it marked her debut on the ""New York Times"" bestseller list at number thirteen. Following ""Harvest"", Gerritsen wrote three more bestselling medical thrillers: ""Life Support"", ""Bloodstream"", and ""Gravity"". In 2001, Gerritsen's first crime thriller, ""The Surgeon"", was published and introduced homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. Although a secondary character in ""The Surgeon"", Rizzoli has been a central focus of ten subsequent novels (see below) pairing her with medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles. The books inspired the ""Rizzoli & Isles"" television series starring Angie Harmon and"
"lesbian subtext to its popularity. Harmon said that she was not surprised by the attention and that, while it was ""'super fun' to play a role that has some same-sex romantic vibes"", the characters are ""straight"" and ""just best friends"". Alexander said that she was not initially aware of the subtext but believed it reflected the characters' chemistry. She also expressed skepticism that Rizzoli and Isles' friendship was out of the ordinary. Rizzoli & Isles Rizzoli & Isles is a TNT television series starring Angie Harmon as police detective Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Alexander as medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles."
"who was unaware of his expulsion—Hoyt, aided by a third apprentice, manages to capture Jane and Maura, only to have Jane beat Hoyt and then stab him when he and his apprentice try to kill Maura. The untitled project was on TNT's development slate as early as March 2008. In October 2009, TNT placed a cast-contingent pilot order under the original title, ""Rizzoli"". The pilot script was written by Janet Tamaro. Angie Harmon was the first actress cast, taking the title role of police detective Jane Rizzoli. Sasha Alexander won the role of medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles after auditioning"
"City of Ashes City of Ashes is the second installment in ""The Mortal Instruments"" series, an urban fantasy series set in New York written by Cassandra Clare. The novel was one of YALSA's top ten teen books for 2009. Clary returns to the Institute after she receives a text message from Isabelle ""Izzy"" Lightwood, saying that Jace had angered the Inquisitor and has been imprisoned in the Silent City awaiting trial by the Sword to determine if he is telling the truth about whether he is in league with Valentine. While sitting in his cell, chained to the bars, Jace"
"the book was ""smart, funny, romantic"". A film based on the second book titled """" was planned for production in 2014, but was eventually scrapped in favor of a TV adaptation of the series. City of Ashes City of Ashes is the second installment in ""The Mortal Instruments"" series, an urban fantasy series set in New York written by Cassandra Clare. The novel was one of YALSA's top ten teen books for 2009. Clary returns to the Institute after she receives a text message from Isabelle ""Izzy"" Lightwood, saying that Jace had angered the Inquisitor and has been imprisoned in"
"Mireille Enos as Sarah Linden, a lead Seattle Police homicide detective. Although many exterior shots show Seattle landmarks the series is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia. The CBS series is headlined by Ted Danson and Elisabeth Shue, playing former Seattle PD Detectives D.B. Russell and Julie Finlay, both forensic specialists. Released in 2015, the psychological suspense novel ""It's Always Darkest"" by author Lisa Martinez, takes place in Seattle and surrounding areas, offering two secondary characters as officers with Seattle PD's East Precinct. Seattle SWAT also has a small scene in the novel. On July 25, 2018, Seattle PD released a"
"became a full-time author. In August 2006, Håkan Nesser and his wife Elke (a psychiatrist) moved to Greenwich Village in New York. A few years later the couple packed their bags and moved to London since it was easier for his wife to find work there. When in Sweden, Nesser lives on the Gotlandic island of Furillen in the Baltic Sea. A recurring main character is called Van Veeteren, a detective in the early novels and later the owner of an antique books shop. These books play out in a fictitious city called Maardam, said to be located in northern"
"Carmen. Carmen confesses to having killed Anna and shoots Maura, wounding her -- only to be fatally shot immediately afterwards by Rizzoli and the parking-lot's security guard. ""Booklist"" called ""Body Double"" a ""taut thriller"", Publishers Weekly said that the ""startling twists, the revelation of ghoulishly practical motives and a nail biting finale make this Gerritsen's best to date"". ""Entertainment Weekly"" was not as impressed saying ""the face-offs between Isles and her killer mom — which should have smacked of ""The Silence of the Lambs"" — fall flat. ""Body"" works the brain a bit, but unfortunately leaves the nerves intact."" ""The"
"Peak District with her son. Anne Zouroudi Anne Zouroudi (born Lincolnshire) is a British novelist, and author of the ""Greek Detective"" series. Her protagonist is Hermes Diaktoros, also known simply as ""the fat man"". Anne Zouroudi was shortlisted for the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award 2008 for Breakthrough Authors, and ""The Messenger of Athens"" was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2008 for first novels with word of mouth appeal. Anne was born in rural Lincolnshire but raised in South Yorkshire. After working in IT in the UK and US, Anne met and married a Greek man and settled in Greece."
"bigger number of pages is better to develop the characters and manage the narrative's pace. The first album in the series, titled ""Gli occhi del abisso"" (The Eyes of the Abyss) was published in October 1998. In January 3, 2007, Julia reached the 100th issue with a fully colored album.) The series tell the stories of Julia Kendall, a young criminologist from the fictional Garden City in New Jersey. She works as a professor at Hollyhock University and as a freelance consultant to the local police, helping them to solve crimes. The cases Julia deals with put her in extremely"
"gifts for their sister, Rose. Inspired by a pair of gift diaries on Christmas 1979, they began their writing careers. They sent away for a mail order course in creative writing, and each wrote several novels. Set primarily in the United States and particularly in Malibu, California, the stories involve young men and women who exhibit strange and often criminal behaviour. In June's ""Pepsi-Cola Addict"", the high-school hero is seduced by a teacher, then sent away to a reformatory where a homosexual guard makes a play for him. In Jennifer's ""The Pugilist"", a physician is so eager to save his"
"as Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Peter Joseph ""Peejoe"" Bullis lives in a small town in Alabama in 1965, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Peejoe's eccentric Aunt Lucille Vinson poisons her husband Chester to death after suffering years of abuse. She decapitates him and brings his severed head with her en route to Hollywood, where she is convinced that television stardom awaits her. In New Orleans, Lucille purchases a black hat box to store Chester's head. When a bartender on Bourbon Street insults her, she threatens him with a revolver and robs the cash register"
"them on a dark, twisted journey, where paranoia assumes an air of cool rationality and the line between sanity and madness disappears. Summer, 1954. Widower U.S. Marshal Edward ""Teddy"" Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule travel to the Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like federal institution for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, to investigate the disappearance of a patient, Rachel Solando, incarcerated for drowning her three children. She has escaped the hospital and apparently the island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant supervision. The doctors who run the hospital are not entirely cooperative. Dr. John Cawley,"
"of the novel takes place in a hospital in the bustling city during Mardi Gras. After the Judge passes, the majority of the novel is set in Laurel's childhood home, in her father's hometown of Mount Salus, Mississippi. The most prominent metaphor in The Optimist's daughter is vision. Welty equates the ability to see with the ability to understand. Both of Laurel's parents suffered from failures of vision. Her mother, Becky McKelva slowly loses her vision as she approaches her death, and her father, Judge McKelva dies while attempting to recover from a cataract surgery. Additionally, images of vision persist"
"and Phyllis Walters, who appear in several of the novels and seem to enjoy a warm friendship with Archer. Arnie is a private detective in Reno, Nevada, about 470 miles north of Los Angeles. Archer sometimes calls upon Artie for assistance with cases that lead to Nevada. Archer's investigations sometimes lead from California to Nevada, due in part to Nevada then having some of the most liberal marriage and divorce laws in the nation, and also due to Nevada then being one of the only states with legalized casino gambling and the associated organized crime presence. Archer's name pays a"
"City of Pearl City of Pearl is a science fiction novel by Karen Traviss. Published in March, 2004, it is the first book of the Wess'Har Series. Among the main characters are Shan Frankland, the hardened cop and forceful commander; Josh Garrod, the devout Christian and gentle leader; Aras, the lonely Wess'har, outcast by his horrible disease; and Lindsay Neville, the Marines Commander dealing with an unplanned pregnancy. ""City of Pearl"" is a book that deals with morals, especially concerning environmentalism, and keeps action sequences to a minimum. The novel opens in the year 2198 and shows several preliminary scenes"
"Angie Harmon Angela Michelle Harmon (born August 10, 1972) is an American actress and model. She was a professional model before gaining international fame for her roles in ""Baywatch Nights"" and as New York A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael on ""Law & Order"". She also starred as Detective Jane Rizzoli on the TNT series ""Rizzoli & Isles"". She was born on August 10, 1972 in Highland Park, Texas, the daughter of Daphne Demar (""née"" Caravageli) and Lawrence Paul ""Larry"" Harmon, a hospital information network executive in Dallas, Texas. Her father has German and Irish ancestry, while her mother is of Greek descent."
"Arkansas, and centers around Claire Malloy, who owns a small bookstore across from the campus of Farberville College. It has been suggested that Farberville is a stand-in for Fayetteville, Arkansas, with many landmarks, including the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, Dickson Street, and even well-known local citizens, thinly veiled in the prose. The Arly Hanks series is set in Maggody, Arkansas, population 755. The main character is Arly Hanks, Maggody's irreverent young female police chief. The first book of the Arly Hanks series, ""Malice in Maggody"", was the basis for the 1993 CBS television pilot ""Arly Hanks"". In the Theo Bloomer series"
"the class of 1950 at Georgetown University. As a result, the novel takes place in Washington, D.C., near the campus of Georgetown University. In September 2011, the novel was reprinted by Harper Collins to celebrate its fortieth anniversary, with slight revisions made by Blatty as well as interior title artwork by Jeremy Caniglia. An elderly Jesuit priest named Father Lankester Merrin is leading an archaeological dig in northern Iraq and is studying ancient relics. After discovering a small statue of the demon Pazuzu (an actual ancient Assyrian demigod), a series of omens alerts him to a pending confrontation with a"
"the Manhattan borough of New York City. On a few occasions, Vance and Van Dine (usually accompanied by Markham and Heath) briefly travel to the Bronx, Westchester County, and New Jersey in the course of their investigations. In ""The Greene Murder Case"" Vance tells, after his arrival back in New York, that he traveled by train to New Orleans to gather information relative to the case. Vance's last case, ""The Winter Murder Case"", is markedly different from the previous 11 cases in that the locale is away from New York (the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts), and Vance and Van"
"City of Bones (Clare novel) City of Bones is the first urban fantasy book in author Cassandra Clare's ""New York Times"" bestselling series ""The Mortal Instruments"". The novel is set in modern day New York City and has been released in several languages, including Bulgarian, Hebrew, Polish and Japanese. Clary goes to the pandemonium club with her best friend, Simon Lewis, where she sees a blue haired boy and a black haired girl sneak into a storeroom, pursued by two other boys; one armed with what appears to be a knife. She sends Simon for help and she follows the"
"Police Department homicide detective John Paris. The story, a suspense novel chronicling a pair of thrill killers, earned him a two-book deal from Michael Korda at Simon & Schuster. In 2001 Montanari published the sequel, ""Kiss of Evil"". Both novels have been published worldwide, and were recently reissued by Random House UK. Set inside the homicide unit of the Philadelphia Police Department, these novels include the alternating narratives of veteran police detective Kevin Francis Byrne, and his younger partner Jessica Balzano. The stories, which ""possess a psychological depth all too rare in such fiction"" (Publishers Weekly), also include other recurring"
"questions about the very nature of loyalty and love."" Starling has also written a series of thrillers featuring Franco Patrese, a Pittsburgh homicide detective who later joins the FBI. The first book was published in the UK as 'Soul Murder' and in the US as 'Thou Shalt Kill.' The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review said that the book 'captures the essentials of Pittsburgh better than most natives could... This is a well-imagined thriller, a nice addition to the crowded police-procedural genre, with vivid characters and nimble-but-fitting plot twists.' The sequel, released as 'City Of Sins' in the UK in October 2011 and as"
"in Vienna. He thinks he can easily prove his case, although based on circumstantial evidence, and will soon have Jones extradited, though Uncle John and the others are quite certain, with the more information that they gather, that Le Drieux's case is full of holes and spend the rest of the novel working to prove Jones's innocence. To this effect, John Merrick hires a fresh young guitar-playing attorney, Fred A. Colby, a recent graduate of Penn Law School who has never fought a case and is eager to prove himself. Otis Werner is a thinly veiled reference to Otis Turner,"
"Seizure (Reichs novel) Seizure is the second novel in the Virals series of novels for young adults written by the American forensic anthropologist and crime writer, Kathy Reichs and her son Brendan Reichs, featuring Tory Brennan, great-niece of Temperance Brennan. Tory Brennan and her friends find themselves in danger of being separated due to budget cuts which may mean the closure of the Loggerheads Island Research Institute (LIRI) where their parents work. Discovering that pirate Anne Bonny's treasure is believed to be buried somewhere near their home in Charleston, South Carolina, they set out to follow the clues to the"
"Chris Partlow and Snoop conceal their numerous victims in abandoned and boarded-up row houses where the bodies will not be readily discovered. The disappearances of so many known criminals come to mystify both the major crimes unit investigating Marlo and the homicide unit assigned to solve the presumed murders. Marlo coerces Bodie into working under him. McNulty is a patrolman and lives with Beadie Russell. He politely refuses offers from Daniels who is now a major and commanding the Western District. Detectives Kima Greggs and Lester Freamon, as part of the major crimes unit, investigate Avon Barksdale's political donations and"
"Vaara, police chief in the town of Kittilä, Lapland, debuted in Thompson's first novel, ""Snow Angels"". In the second novel, ""Lucifer's Tears"", he moves to Helsinki. While he is portrayed as a good cop in the first two books, in the next installment, ""Helsinki White"", we see Vaara turning into a rogue and corrupt cop. ""Helsinki Blood"" takes on further along the same line, with Vaara trying to tie all loose ends and redeem himself. James Thompson was first reviewed and later became a reviewer at New York Journal of Books. Following his very early death, ""New York Journal of"
"hemlock poisoning, and Dr Brackett (Robert Fuller) mentions there was a case like this in Atascadero. Atascadero is the setting for the novel ""Pay It Forward"". In the movie ""The Grifters"" (1990) Atascadero is mentioned as the place a former partner-in-crime of Myra Langtry, played by Annette Bening, has retired to — insinuating that he became an inmate in Atascadero State Hospital for the criminally insane. In the 1990 film ""My Blue Heaven"", they used the City Hall exterior to depict a court house and used the police department lobby (which was in the City Hall at the time) to"