Best Tess Gerritsen Audiobooks
Tess Gerritsen brings a surgeon's precision to medical thrillers — which makes sense, because she is one. Her Rizzoli & Isles series, anchored by The Surgeon and The Apprentice, built its reputation on the uncomfortable detail: the procedural accuracy of a forensic pathologist, the clinical cold of a killer's methodology, the way bodies tell stories investigators don't want to hear. Gerritsen's prose is tight and clinical without being sterile — she gets under your skin quietly, then doesn't let go. Unlike thrillers that substitute pace for dread, hers earns both. Body Double and Die Again show her range beyond Boston's precinct rooms, pushing into territory that's genuinely unsettling. Readers who want their crime fiction grounded in real anatomy, real investigative process, and protagonists who feel the weight of what they see — Gerritsen is the real thing.
Where to Start with Tess Gerritsen
- Best entry point → Gravity
- Best standalone → Playing with Fire
- What fans keep coming back to → Vanish: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
- Best narrator for Tess Gerritsen → Body Double
- Highest rated by listeners → I Know a Secret (Rizzoli & Isles #12)
Best Tess Gerritsen Audiobooks
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Body Double
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 4
Narrated by Kathe Mazur
★ 4.32 ABR Score (65.5K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (63.9K) ★ 4.41 Audible (1.6K)More about this pick
Kathe Mazur voices medical examiner Maura Isles as she faces a serial killer case that becomes disturbingly personal when she discovers her own doppelganger.
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Gravity
Narrated by William Dufris
★ 4.22 ABR Score (18.6K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (17.6K) ★ 4.41 Audible (933)More about this pick
Medical thriller meets space station horror as deadly organisms threaten both orbiting astronauts and Earth below.
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I Know a Secret
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 12
Narrated by Tanya Eby
★ 4.22 ABR Score (30.5K ratings)★ 4.22 Goodreads (29.0K) ★ 4.43 Audible (1.5K)More about this pick
Detective Rizzoli and pathologist Isles investigate a bizarre murder scene where a woman clutches mysterious objects in death. Gerritsen's twelfth series entry combines forensic puzzles with personal secrets that prove deadly.
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The Silent Girl
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 9
Narrated by Tanya Eby
★ 4.21 ABR Score (48.5K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (46.4K) ★ 4.26 Audible (2.1K)More about this pick
Jane Rizzoli discovers a severed hand in Boston's Chinatown and a nearly headless corpse on the rooftop above. Tanya Eby navigates Gerritsen's grisly crime scenes with appropriate gravity.
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Ice Cold
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 8
Narrated by Tanya Eby
★ 4.20 ABR Score (56.0K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (53.2K) ★ 4.2 Audible (2.8K)More about this pick
Maura Isles becomes stranded in an abandoned Wyoming village where twelve identical houses hide evidence of a religious cult's mass disappearance, turning a ski trip into survival horror.
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Playing with Fire
Narrated by Julia Whelan, Will Damron
★ 4.18 ABR Score (27.2K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (23.9K) ★ 4.33 Audible (3.3K)More about this pick
Julia finds an unusual violin composition in a Roman antique shop that causes blackouts and her daughter's disturbing behavior changes.
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Last to Die
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 10
Narrated by Tanya Eby
★ 4.18 ABR Score (40.2K ratings)★ 4.13 Goodreads (38.0K) ★ 4.23 Audible (2.1K)More about this pick
Fourteen-year-old Teddy survives his second family massacre in two years, leaving detective Jane Rizzoli to find the connection. Tanya Eby handles the teenager's trauma with appropriate restraint.
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Vanish: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 5
Narrated by Susan Denaker
★ 4.17 ABR Score (74.8K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (73.3K) ★ 4.38 Audible (1.5K)More about this pick
A desperate woman takes hostages in a restaurant, demanding to speak only to medical examiner Maura Isles. Denaker's steady narration anchors this high-stakes thriller where human trafficking meets police procedure.
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The Apprentice- Tess Gerritsen
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 2
Narrated by Anna Fields
★ 4.14 ABR Score (74.8K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (73.3K) ★ 4.35 Audible (1.6K)More about this pick
Someone is copying the methods of imprisoned killer Warren Hoyt, and detective Jane Rizzoli must catch the copycat before becoming the next victim. Fields captures Rizzoli's determination as the hunter becomes hunted.
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Life Support
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.14 ABR Score (20.1K ratings)★ 4.03 Goodreads (19.4K) ★ 4.33 Audible (717)More about this pick
George Guidall lends his steady voice to Gerritsen's medical thriller, where hospital politics turn deadly and someone is targeting the most vulnerable patients.
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The Mephisto Club
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 6
Narrated by Kathe Mazur
★ 4.12 ABR Score (53.3K ratings)★ 4.03 Goodreads (51.7K) ★ 4.21 Audible (1.6K)More about this pick
Ancient evil stalks modern Boston as Rizzoli and Isles face their most supernatural case, while Kathe Mazur's chilling performance makes every Latin phrase feel like a curse.
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Die Again
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 11
Narrated by Tanya Eby
★ 4.10 ABR Score (37.7K ratings)★ 4.21 Goodreads (35.2K) ★ 4.28 Audible (2.4K)More about this pick
Detective Rizzoli investigates a big game hunter found dead with his illegally obtained snow leopard, uncovering connections to a deadly safari that went wrong years earlier.
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Bloodstream
Narrated by Richard Poe
★ 4.09 ABR Score (18.2K ratings)★ 3.99 Goodreads (17.6K) ★ 4.3 Audible (589)More about this pick
Dr. Claire Elliot seeks small-town peace in Tranquility, but violent outbreaks among local children suggest something sinister flows beneath the surface.
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keepsake the
Rizzoli & Isles • Book 7
Narrated by Deirdre Lovejoy
★ 4.04 ABR Score (50.5K ratings)★ 4.12 Goodreads (49.1K) ★ 4.27 Audible (1.4K)More about this pick
Medical examiner Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli investigate when mummified remains in a museum storage room connect to recent murders, blending archaeology with modern forensics.