Tess Gerritsen's Choose Me: An Unforgettable Journey of Self-Discovery

M. Shell: The author painted this story like real life. There is a brief affair, a murder. Lives ruined. Yet people manage to go on with their new normal.

Jack is a College professor who had it all. Taryn is a brilliant student with an extremely flawed personality. After her childhood boyfriend broke up with her, she could not let it go until she sunk her claws into Jack. It goes to show you that hell has no fury like a woman scorned.

I will say that I had my suspicions about who did the murder. It wasn’t until later in the story that I found out I was correct in my assumption.

United States on Jan 26, 2024

Kelly Cheatwood: Struggled with what to rate this! I loved the story and didn’t want to put the book down… however the back and forth of before and after really threw me for a loop, and I would’ve preferred something more as an ending.

Spy Coast was the first book I read of Tess Gerritsen’s and it was a fav, so I had high expectations of this book. Glad it was on kindle unlimited and will still read more of her books.

United States on Jan 22, 2024

Andrew LevistonCock: Brilliant whodunnit ... great cast of credible characters, all with potential motives. The clues are there - I missed it! The final twists are a real corkscrew!

United Kingdom on Jan 21, 2024

Kindle Customer: I really couldn’t put this book down, the storyline had me hooked. I would have given it 5 stars if I had not solved the mystery at 3/4 of the way in.

United States on Jan 20, 2024

Kindle Customer: Choose Me is unlike other thrillers I've read. In fact, I consider more along the lines of women's fiction, bordering on literary fiction. Because it's really more about the character arcs than the whodunit. Although... the mystery of what happened to Taryn Moore is extremely compelling and makes it hard to put the book down.

I agree with a lot of the low ratings where people didn't care for the victim. I absolutely couldn't stand her. Taryn, the 'victim', needed serious psychological help. She needed an intervention. She needed an in-patient program. She should not have been walking the streets ruining lives. And I didn't agree with the authors' final take-away message about her either. But still... this book was so well-written and I don't need to agree with the authors' ideas about feminism to give this a fair rating. It was a taut thriller that had me riveted for the few hours I needed to read it.

I've read a lot of Tess Gerritsen books. Now I'm going to see what else Gary Braver has written. And I hope these two have / will have more collaborations. Also, I'm going to bet here that Gerritsen was the genius behind that autopsy scene. She's the only author that...

United States on Dec 14, 2023

Jan McClelland: Surprised I read to the end!

Spain on Sep 30, 2023

Avid reader: A young 22 years girl is found fallen from the balcony of her apartment. It looks as suicide but the investigating detective Frankie is not convinced- one red flag is that she can’t find the victim’s phone. The other is that she is a mother of twins at a similar age and as parent she feels that something is amiss “A parent’s job never really ends. Even if she lives to be a hundred, her sixty-something daughters will still be keeping her awake at night.”. So she starts investigating and retracing the girl’s life.
Very gripping book - allocate time to finish it at once because you will not want to leave it aside,

Canada on Sep 02, 2022

D. Werdin: I am so happy I chose this book. The Story is told from multiple points of view through the eyes of the main characters and on two levels of time. Thanks for the great read.

Germany on Aug 09, 2022

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France on Feb 09, 2022

Jessica Higgins: Taryn Moore is found dead on the sidewalk in front of her apartment. At first glance, the police believe she jumped from her fifth story balcony, but the more Detective Frankie Loomis investigates, the more doubts she has that this is a suicide. Taryn is young, attractive, and smart; she had every reason to live, so why would she kill herself? As new evidence comes to light, it becomes clear that this wasn’t a suicide. Now the question is, who would want her dead?

English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn’s professor, thinks she is one of the most talented and beautiful students he has ever had, the fact that she adores him doesn’t hurt. He is in a hard place with his marriage and the attention is nice. But when Taryn turns up dead, he is one of the first suspects and realizes he has gotten in way over his head. Detective Frankie Loomis works to uncover the secrets and solve the case before anyone else gets hurt.

Tess Gerritsen is a good go-to thriller author for me. If I want a good mystery with plenty of suspense, I know I won’t be disappointed with one of her books. The book goes back and forth between before and after giving readers a look at Taryn and what...

United States on Jul 01, 2021