Customer Reviews
Crazy Kids and a Mystery that Begs to be Solved - By: Katie Osborne, 07 Jan 2008 
Dr. Claire Elliot moved to quiet Tranquility, Maine with her rebellious teenage son Noah after the death of her husband. She takes over a smalll medical practice & starts to rebuild her life, but after only being in town for a short while, strange things start happening among the town's youth. Teenage pranks rapidly accelerate into a shooting spree at the local school. Clare wonders why some of the town's residents want to cover up the incidents & she also wonders if there might be a medical explanation for everything that is going on. Then folks start blaming her for what's happening & it looks like they want to drive her out of town.
Convinced that there's a medical reason for the evil behavior of the town's teenagers, Claire chases after every clue she can find. Then her son is arrested for a hit & run & that leads to the clue that might solve the puzzle.
BLOODSTREAM is a fast & fun five star read that will have you deeply involved in the mystery while you work along with Claire as she tries to figure it alll out.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
fantastic!! - By: Mr. J. Cronie, 14 Nov 2007 tess does it again with this fast moving yarn! A definate can't put it down book!
Gripping! - By: Louise Saunders, 18 Oct 2007 Marvellous! Gripping from beginning to end. I'm not usuallly a fan of books with heavy emphasis on medical explanations but, obviously in this case, it was a necessary part of the plot. But it didn't go overboard & I reallly enjoyed the story. Thrilling, well written, believable characters - what more could a read want?!!
good, but slightly formulaic - By: Coma white, 15 Oct 2007 
This book started of reallly good & I had extremely high hopes. I've read books by Gerritsen before, both from her Rizzoli series & also standalones.
As I said it starts well & the pace thru-out is steady, however toward the end it becomes slightly formulaic & 'paint by numbers crime'/ I'm sure this is due to 'Bloodstream' being one of Tess' first books. I sha'll try & give little away incase you are yet to read it, but if you have already read this book you will understand how the romance between two main characters half way through is slightly un-original.
But like i've said it is an enjoyable book, deserving of more if not for some of the obvious & unoriginal plot ideas.
sci-fi / reality - By: RD, 22 Aug 2007 
I'm not a big fan of horror/fantasy books as I find it hard to enjoy a story unless I can picture it happening in the real world. I was initiallly unsure in which direction 'Bloodstream' was heading with alll the talk of satanic cults & the likes but was releaved to find that it was realistic enough. What I mean is, with my understanding of science what Ms Gerritsen describes is entirely plausible.
Essentiallly, it's about a city doctor who moves out into the countryside with her son to try & keep him out of trouble. Unfortunately, he's a young teenager & very angry about being yanked away from his life & friends. Soon he's not the only angry kid around with school shootings, family massacres & general violence erupting among the youth for no apparent reason. Dr Elliot decides there is more to it when she finds out the same thing happened 52years ago in the town of Tranquility... but will she find out what the cause in time to save her son?
