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Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen is an American novelist and retired physician, born in San Diego, California, on June 12, 1953. She earned a BA in anthropology from Stanford University and a medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and practiced as a physician before writing full-time. Her novel The Surgeon introduced homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, later paired with medical examiner Maura Isles in the long-running Rizzoli & Isles series, adapted for television from 2010 to 2016. She liv...