When a pretty, young co-ed falls to her death from her fifth floor balcony, the police are ready to chalk it up to suicide, but a missing cell phone causes them to dig deeper, investigating her former boyfriend and a professor who crossed a line with her.  As all the evidence mounts in one place, a surprising suspect reveals himself.

While I am familiar with Tess Gerritsen as the creator of Rizzoli & Isles, Choose Me is my first actual exposure to her literary work.  If I had to assume the breakdown here, I’d guess Gerritsen wrote the After chapters, about the police investigation, while Gary Braver wrote the Before chapters, about Taryn’s decent into madness and her affair with the professor.  Which, if I do say so myself, is just slightly creepy, given his day job as a college professor.  All told, this was a quick and mostly enjoyable read, but I don’t know if I’d go back for seconds.  Maybe I’d still be open to Gerritsen on her own, but we will have to see.