How long does it take to read The Surgeon?
Tess Gerritsen, Christine Marshall
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen, Christine Marshall takes about 6 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Rizzoli & Isles
Next: The Apprentice
About 6 hours 45 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 368 pages, about 101,200 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 39 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. The terrifying first Jane Rizzoli bestseller.In Boston, there's a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on them before finishing them off. His surgical skills lead police to suspect he is a physician – a physician who, instead of saving lives, takes them.But as homicide detective Thomas Moore and his partner Jane Rizzoli begin their investigation, they make a startling discovery. Closely linked to these killings is Catherine Cordell, a beautiful medic with a mysterious past. Two years ago she was subjected to a horrifying rape and attempted murder but she shot her attacker dead. Now she is being targeted by the new killer who seems to know all about her past, her work, and where she lives.The man she believes she killed seems to be stalking her once again, and this time he knows exactly where to find her...
Subjects: Fiction, thrillers, general, Boston (mass.), fiction, Serial murders, fiction, Forensic pathologists, fiction, Police, Fiction
