![]() ![]() Not only did she survive the book, she was the one who cracked the case.Īfter finishing The Surgeon, I planned to write a medical thriller, but the character of Jane Rizzoli never left me. When I reached the scene where Jane was lying wounded and helpless and about to die, I couldn’t kill her. She was very much an outsider, a position that I could identify with. ![]() She’d grown up with two brothers who taunted her, and continually had to prove herself in a male-dominated profession. I also learned about the obstacles she faced in her life and her career. In the course of writing The Surgeon, I began to admire Jane for her drive and intelligence, qualities that her male colleagues didn’t always appreciate. ![]() I saw no reason to make her likeable because I was going to kill her by the end of the book.īut her death didn’t quite go as planned. Thomas Moore was the protagonist in that story, and Jane was merely his annoying partner, a plain and scruffy woman with a huge chip on her shoulder. When she first walked on to the pages of The Surgeon, I didn’t even realize that Jane was a heroine. ![]() Such a clever killer had to be matched with an equally clever detective, and that’s how Detective Jane Rizzoli was born. His name was Warren Hoyt and, in whispers, he described his horrifying fantasies, which would inspire his brutal crimes in Boston. Seventeen years ago, a character began talking to me. ![]()
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