Vanish

This one was my favorite, so far, though it's a bit longer due to the multiple threads, and depressing because it's about human sex trafficking. There's a ton of suspense/tension in this book, and though it seems a bit over the top, including the massacre of a house of people, a hostage situation, birth of a baby, and kidnapping, among other things, Tess Gerritsen had me on a hook. I also appreciated the depiction of Rizzoli as a new mother, overwhelmed with love for her child, but struggling with her identity shift and the expectations of what "good" mothers do.
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Not the top book in the series for several reasons. I don't like to think that a whole group of people who have power in our government would be openly hiding such ugly secrets, let alone so openly protecting the bad guys by murdering the good guys. It's a really ugly thought and I don't care for books with plots like this. I do like the fact that this author brought out in the open that these types of kidnappings real