THE SINNER

Once again Gerritsen, a doctor, brings us gripping and technically detailed gore. Actor Dennis Boutsikaris delivers a cool, understated performance that suits the protaganist--Medical Examiner Maura Isle, a woman who prefers the company of corpses to the emotionally threatening world of the living. As in all thrillers, there are love interests who are close to the case and lots of surprises in the mysterious and hideous multiple murders of nuns. But most remarkable is how the story flows from the page to ear smoothly and grippingly, a real page-turner in the theater of the mind. D.J.B. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 03/JAN 04]