I'm actually surprised at the fact that The Silent Girl is the 26th book I've read this year considering that the last few months I've been studying ceaselessly for the Romanian Baccalaureate I'll be taking at the end of June. 
 As I said in a previous review, Tess Gerritsen is one of my favourite contemporary authors. I wonder whether she has ever written a bad novel because once again I found myself completely captivated by one of her novels and incapable of putting it down. Speaking of the Rizzoli & Isles series, I believe this has to be the book with the most complex plot I've read thus far and also very personal because it is inspired from the Chinese stories Tess Gerritsen's mother has told her. The Silent Girl begins with the discovery of a dead female body which makes detective Jane Rizzoli and her colleagues to reopen some cases regarding a massacre which took place 19 years ago in a restaurant located in Chinatown, Boston and the vanishing of two young girls who have never been found and whose parents were related to that tragic event. In over half of the novel everything was so twisted and it seemed almost impossible to tie in all those crimes. However, Tess Gerritsen masterfully managed to come up with a more than satisfactory explanation. 
 The Silent Girl is not an ordinary mystery/crime/suspense/thriller novel given that it delivers a valuable insight into the Chinese culture and also because while reading it, and the following aspect is common to all of the novels written by Tess Gerritsen, you realize that the author has acquired great knowledge of the police and medical procedures prior to writing her books because these procedures are described in detail. I enjoyed The Silent Girl immensely and the only minor flaw of the entire series is, from my point of view, that the relationship between Jane and Maura is not as strong and close as the one in the TNT TV series. Some of the books in the series have detective Rizzoli as the protagonist, while others focus on Maura. I'm a huge fan of Tess Gerritsen and I can assure that you won't be disappointed with her novels. I cannot wait for the new novel in the series which is due to be published this summer.