Noted author Tess Gerritsen to speak at PCPL event on Monday

Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Tess Gerritsen

The Putnam County Public Library will welcome bestselling author Tess Gerritsen -- whose novels spawned the popular TV crime drama series "Rizzoli & Isles" -- at the library on Monday, Oct. 7.

Visitors can bring their lunch to the noon Brown Bag event. Drinks and desserts will be provided. Eli's Books will sell Gerritsen's books at the reading.

Gerritsen is in the midst of "The Great Indiana Public Libraries Tour," a two-week (Sept. 30-Oct. 14) grassroots visit of 23 Indiana public libraries in 16 days.

The tour offers rural audiences a rare opportunity to engage with Gerritsen -- a worldwide bestselling author -- in their hometown libraries. Following each talk, Gerritsen will hold a question-and-answer session and book signing.

Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career, leaving a successful practice as an internist to raise her children and concentrate on her writing. She gained nationwide acclaim for her first novel of medical suspense, the 1996 bestseller "Harvest."

She is also the author of the bestsellers "Life Support," "Bloodstream," "Gravity" and "The Surgeon."

A graduate of Stanford University, she went to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, and received her M.D. It was while on maternity leave from work as a physician, she began to write fiction.

In 1987, she published her first novel, "Call After Midnight," a romantic thriller. It was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels and a screenplay, "Adrift," which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week.

Her books have been published in 40 countries, and more than 25 million copies have been sold around the world.

Gerritsen has been awarded the Nero Wolfe Award for excellence in the mystery genre for "Vanish" and the Rita Award, the highest award of distinction in romance fiction, for "The Surgeon."

Her series of novels featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the TNT television series "Rizzoli & Isles."

Now retired from medicine, she writes full time and resides in Maine.

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