Detective Jane Rizzoli and Dr Maura Isles are back. Rizzoli and her partner Frost arr investing the murder of ICU nurse Sofia Suarez. Is it is burglary gone wrong or some thing more sinister.

At Sofia's funeral it becomes clear one of the guests and former patient of Sofia, as well as daughter to one of the ICU consultants is being stalked? Jane starts to question if the two are linked. However this case is throwing up more questions than answers.

As a side story, we get to see more of Angela Rizzoli, who bored without her partner Vince, starts to take on the role of neighbourhood watch with some disastrous consequences.

I really enjoyed the main story of Rizzoli and Frost trying to solve Sofia's murder and catch the stalker and didn't guess who the real killer was.

I felt Maura took more of a back seat during this book and only featured in the odd chapter.

The Angela story was funny at times but often put Angela in danger. It also took up quite a bit of the book and not sure her story needed to be so long.

Overall I did really enjoy the book and can't wait for the next Rizzoli and Isles book.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Another absolutely amazing write from Tess. I couldn’t put it down. I love how Jane reacts to her mother’s suspicions, and I love how the story switches between views.

This is the first Tess Gerritsen I’ve read and I enjoyed it. Even though it’s the thirteenth in this series I found it worked fine without having read any of the earlier ones because Gerritsen is very skilful at telling us any history we need without a lot of cumbersome explanation.

It’s a very decent police procedural; Jane Rizzoli is called to a nasty murder of a popular nurse and her investigations suggest links to another murder nearly two decades earlier. A sense of menace is well developed and the eventual climax is a good deal more plausible than in many such books. In addition there’s a semi-comic side-plot involving Rizzoli’s redoubtable mother and dodgy goings-on in her neighbourhood which works surprisingly well and both recaps and develops Jane’s personal story.

The prose is unfussy and easy to read, Gerritsen paces and structures her plot very skilfully and the characters are well drawn, with the two leads especially being believable and engaging. In many ways this is a pretty standard police thriller, but is lifted above the general mass of such books by some very good writing and storytelling. It hasn’t left me desperate to search out more Rizzoli and Isles but I will certainly read another if it comes my way.

I love the Rizzoli & Isles series and have been reading these books for a long time now! The set-up was exciting, baffling, and intriguing, and I was eager to see where the story was going. The search for the killer had me riveted! I enjoyed the suspenseful, thrilling mystery plots…but I really came for the characters. As always, I was entertained and cannot wait until the next one.

It’s been five years since the last Rizzoli and Isles book and it’s great to see them return. Although Maura’s contribution to this book was rather muted, with it being more like a Rizzoli and Rizzoli book as Jane’s mum, Angela took centre stage for quite a bit of the book. It made for an interesting change in perspectives. At times it was almost like Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club with Angela’s interest in her neighbourhood goings on being discussed at the Thursday night Scrabble game.

The story had plenty of tension though, as both Angela’s neighbours and the main mystery Jane was investigating developing added layers.

An enjoyable return for fans of this series.

As one of my favourite authors Tess Gerritsen always delivers and it was great to read a new Rizzoli and Isles mystery.
The characters in this series are all so familiar it’s like popping in to hear the next instalment of their lives. There is so much going on around them it’s intriguing and the twists are so unexpected that they keep you on edge.
Thoroughly enjoyed and recommend this book to all lovers of mystery/thriller genre.

Well, Tess Gerritsen has done it again. I absolutely love this series, so I was thrilled to receive a copy to review. There’s something about Tess Gerritsen’s books that have an edge to them you can’t find anywhere else.

The characters are so lifelike, it’s unreal. Not just Jane and Maura, but also the supporting characters. I loved all the different points of view, and how much deeper I understood the plot because of them.

I loved finding out more about Angela, Jane’s mother, and I enjoyed her POV and learning more about Jane.

I loved the case. It was interesting and kept me guessing until the end. Like in every book she’s written, I love how much detail we get about the crime and investigation. Tess really knows her stuff, and it shows.

Overall, another fantastic book in the Rizzoli and Isles series, and I hope we get to see more in the future! Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher, for a chance to read and review this book.

Fab! I've waited a long time for the return of Rizzoli and Isles and this didn't disappoint. Full of drama and unexpected twists, it had me gripped from the start.

NetGalley review

Ever since I was gifted The Surgeon Tess Gerritsen became one of my favourite authors so when I was approved to read one of her upcoming Rizzoli and Isles books I was so happy.

This book certainly didn’t disappoint. From the off I was hooked. A respected nurse and neighbour is brutally murdered but why was she targeted. Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles investigate the case and they discover that Sofia was guarding a dangerous secret. Was this what brought the killer to her door?

In the meantime Jane’s mother Angela is keeping an eye on her own neighbourhood. There is something strange going on with the new neighbours but no one is listening to her. 
Jane and Maura are too busy to pay attention to Angela's fears as they are too preoccupied with Sofia’s murder. With no one listening to her she decides to take matters into her own hands.

Another brilliant Rizzoli and Isles book. Tess definitely knows how to keep the twists and thrills coming. I love the characters and the writing style and I cannot fault this book. Loved it!

Listen to me is another fantastic novel in the Rizzoli & Isles series

It was quite lovely to have chapters from Angela's pov, Jane Rizzoli's mum, and how she saw and experienced things.
I am a huge fan of this series

This is a series but could be read as a standalone. The plot very much follows the Rizzolis rather than Maura and I prefer when the books have both of them together more.

A quick paced, enjoyable thriller.

Thank you for the arc.

Lovely book, had me captured immediately. I especially liked Angela, her thoughts on how to perceive the world around her or more accurately: her street and its occupants.

A proper setting with every single character being its own, as in well put together, how we got to know a bit of every single one of them.

Thanks to Netgalley for a copy of the book.

As an absolute Rizzoli and Isles diehard, I have no words to describe how excited I was to be accepted for the eARC on Netgalley!

I don't want to go into too much detail about the plot, but there is murder, deception and good old fashioned Rizzoli detective work. This incorporates a diary style alternating story starting Angela Rizzoli, Jane's mother, doing her own detective work.

It was fantastic returning to their world after 5(??) years of waiting, and nice to get back to an old fashioned Rizzoli and Isles mystery without traveling and mysterious places. Not that I didn't enjoy those, my first forray into the R&I universe was actually book 8, The Killing Place!

I absolutely loved Angela and thought it added a refreshing viewpoint to the series and was quite fascinating. You could feel the frustration on both sides of Angela and Jane not listening to each other.

I would've liked more Rizzoli and Isles interaction, it felt like Maura was a side character and I think they may have only spoken twice in the whole book. Though personally I think the worse part is the wait for the next book!

I definitely recommend this for any Rizzoli and Isles fans, if you've not read them yet, I'd start at the beginning or with book 2, The Apprentice and enjoy working your way through this incredible series!

Listen to Me is released in the UK and US 7th July 2022!

The last couple of Tess Gerritsen's books that I have read, I really have not enjoyed, so it was a relief to have Rizzoli and Isles back, and something of a return to form. That said, I felt this book lacked something - it didn't grip me in the way that earlier books in this series have done. I didn't like the sections of the novel devoted to Jane's mum poking her nose into her neighbours' business - yes I know that older women get sidelined and ignored, and yes they deserve to be listened to, but also she caused more problems than she resolved, so it didn't exactly prove the point! Also how many stories do we have to have now about the woman over the street seeing something through the window and not being believed?

With thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in return for an honest review.

It’s a long time since I have read any tess Gerritson despite being a huge fan. This was a little slow, and her mum did frustrate me quite a lot. It was nice to have Rizzo and Isles back - but I don’t think I would be in a mad hurry to pick up the next one.
Really good plot and eventful - just not the same as the older ones.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it as a continuation of the Rizzoli and Isles series or as a standalone. It felt good to be reunited with old friends in this engrossing story.
Thank you Netgalley and Random House UK for giving me the opportunity to give my unbiased opinion.

I was so excited to read this and become familiar with rizzoli and Isles again. However for me it did not live up to the hype. Not bad just not the same quality as the first few books in the series.

I can't believe that after so many great Rizzoli and Ives books that Tess Gerritsen has anything fresh and new to say. But then she again does it and comes up with another addictive book, how does she do it ? Still loving the series as much as ever.

I was given advance copy of tess gerritsen’s new Rizzoli & Isles novel Listen To Me from NetGalley, what can I say , it’s another gripping story from one of the best crime thriller writers that I have a pleasure of reading over the years, the tv series may have finished, but the books continue,are far superior entertainment, highly recommended, ratings story 10/10 , characters 10/10

As a long-time reader of Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli and Isles series, I've been interested to see her characters and plots develop and adapt to changing times. The early books, such as The Surgeon and The Apprentice, were grisly serial killer stories which featured horrific acts of violence against women, but in recent years the books have featured more nuanced storytelling, without losing any of the page-turning tension and readability.

Listen To Me follows two plot strands. In the first, Jane Rizzoli's mother becomes increasingly suspicious of goings-on in her Boston neighbourhood, becoming a curtain twitcher of the highest order and irritating both her local police department and several of her neighbours with her complaints. But is she right, after all? In the second, Rizzoli and Isles investigate the murder of an ICU nurse in a seemingly-simple break-in, which inevitably turns out to be more than meets the eye.

I very much enjoyed being back with these characters, after almost five years since the previous book in the series, and appreciated the notes of levity that the Angela Rizzoli storyline offered. Highly recommended for fans of Lisa Gardner and Karin Slaughter.