Tess Gerritsen Professions : MD Born : June 12, 1953 Browse All Authors Top 63 quotes by Tess Gerritsen Fans are always asking me where I get my ideas from. The answer is that I'm very curious, and I get inspiration from everywhere. I read the newspapers voraciously, so I know what's going on in real crime. I pay attention to the strange stories people tell me, and I also read a lot of scientific and forensic journals. Tess Gerritsen me attention people ideas I met my husband, Jacob, in medical school. We married and went to live in Hawaii where his family lived. It was very beautiful, but I wasn't used to being on an island and needed wide open spaces. Eventually we moved to Maine, New England. Tess Gerritsen medical family beautiful school I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred. Tess Gerritsen stage police shy violence Similar Authors Antonio Lobo Antunes md Andrew Taylor Still md Gro Harlem Brundtland md A.J. Cronin md Margaret Chan md All Authors