The Surgeon (novel) The Surgeon (novel) The Surgeon (2001) is a suspense novel by Tess Gerritsen, the first of the Maura Isles/Jane Rizzoli series. A terrifying new serial killer begins stalking the streets of Boston, using his vast medical knowledge to systematically torture and kill vulnerable women, a modus operandi which has earned him the nickname "the Surgeon". As Jane Rizzoli, accompanied by detective Thomas Moore, works the case, she comes across trauma doctor Catherine Cordell, who almost died in the same fashion at the hands of another psychopath several years before, but killed him before he could kill her. Rizzoli soon establishes
Description of the Western Isles of Scotland MacFarlane created a third manuscript in 1749, either from a debased original or directly from Balfour as it has the same defects. Monro's work first came to a wider public when the incomplete version of "Description" was published in 1774 by William Auld of Edinburgh, along with some supplementary writing about the Hebrides. The full title was "Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, called Hybrides; by Mr Donald Monro High Dean of the Isles who travelled through the most of them in the year 1549. With his Geneologies of the chief Clans of the Isles." "Description" and "Genealogies" were