Product Description

When the bullets finally ceased, the bodies lay in a coiled embrace on the lifeboat. The sinking of a cargo ship and the slaughter of its crew seemed a senseless act of violence. But Clea Rice knows the truth and is determined to expose the culprits. When Jordan Tavistock is asked to steal the indiscreet letters of a friend, he reluctantly obliges, only to be caught red-handed by another burglar. The burglar is Clea, who is looking for something else entirely. As Jordan finds himself caught up in a web of mystery and intrigue, he wonders how he can trust Clea when she will not tell him who she is working for, or even what her real name is. Only together, can they find the answers to the sinister questions surrounding the sinking of the ship. Answers that some are prepared to kill for to keep buried.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47747 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Review
'Gerritsen is tops in her genre.' --USA Today

'Tess Gerritsen writes some of the smartest, most compelling thrillers around.' --Bookreporter

'Gerritsen has enough in the locker to seriously worry Michael Connelly, Harlan Coben and even the great Denis Lehane. Brilliant.' --Crimetime

About the Author
Sunday Times best-selling Tess Gerritsen is one of the biggest names in crime fiction. A former doctor, Tess has now retired from medicine to write full-time. She and her family live in Maine.

Customer Reviews

A note from Tess Gerritsen's UK editor
Having read the reviews of Stolen, I wanted - as the publisher of Tess's more recent thrillers as Transworld - to say that STOLEN (previously published as THIEF OF HEARTS), IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS, UNDER THE KNIFE, CALL AFTER MIDNIGHT (gathered together in the anthology Murder & Mayhem), NEVER SAY DIE and WHISTLEBLOWER are not thrillers, but reissues of romantic suspense novels originally published by Mira / Mills & Boon. Recently Mira have changed the titles of some of Tess's backlist novels to make them more chilling, have called them Sunday Times bestsellers (which is not the case), and even put Harlan Coben's quote on the front panels - all of which we have asked them not to do, as we felt it might cause confusion among fans.
To avoid confusion in the future, you should note that any books published by Mira are reissues of romantic suspense novels and were first published in the 1990s. The harder hitting serial killer thrillers are published by Bantam/Transworld, and began when we first published THE SURGEON in 2002.
I should add that if you want to talk to Tess about this or other matters, you can do so by contacting her on her website (www.tessgerritsen.com), or via her wonderful blog, or you'll be able to meet her in person when she tours the UK in January 08 with her new thriller, THE BONE GARDEN.
Hope this is helpful!
Selina Walker, publishing director, Transworld.

A big disappointment
I have most of Tess Gerritsen's later books and especially enjoy the stories about Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles. I was so looking forward to what I thought was her latest book, but find instead it is a 10 year old romance originally called "Thief of Hearts" by Harlequin but re-titled "Stolen". What a disappointment, a quite ordinary romantic novel.

Lame Tripe
A shameful cash-in by the publishers. The style of Stolen is apposite to Gerritsen's usual well written thrillers, not surprising as it is rebranded old work. Unsuccessful old work at a guess because even though the style change was a disappointment, what was worse was the poor cliched writing.

The storyline is not all bad but tortuous lines and poor melodrama combine to make the book borderline unreadable. I bought it based on the author's record, now I will have to make sure I check all of her new books to see if they are of a similiar ilk. Looks like "Murder and Mayhem" is more of the same.