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When Detective Francis X. Loughlin was new on the police force, a young doctor was murdered and Julian Vega, her apartment manager, was convicted and sent to prison. Twenty years later, Vega is released from prison on a technicality. Another doctor is murdered, and fingers point to Vega again. The DNA test is a shocker--the blood under the new victim's fingernails isn't that of Vega, but of the woman murdered twenty years before. Peter Blauner won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Slow Motion Riot. 391 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design and photograph by Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla.
Slipping into Darkness
Blauner, Peter
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006.
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The author's first novel. Three scientists at the Trudeau Research Center on the Arctic Circle are found dead on the ice. The cause of death is unknown, however, and epidemiologist Jessica Hanley is called in to investigate. A Russian submarine has disappeared in the Norwegian fjords, and retired commander, Admiral Rudenko is sent to locate it. Hanley's and Rudenko's searches will intersect, as they try to solve inexplicable events. Illustrated end papers. 402 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Greg Mollica.
The Trudeau Vector
Jurjevics, Juris
New York: Viking Press, 2005.
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Signed by the author on title page. The staff and former residents of now-closed The Hawthorne House School for the Treatment of Autistic Children gather for a reunion. The shocking death of the school's founder, Dr. Jay Schermerhorn, brings Chicago detectives Emily Folkstone and Ollie Park to investigate. They discover hidden characteristics behind Dr. Schermerhorn's professional facade. 350 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8".
Death of a Thousand Cuts
D'Amato, Barbara
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2004.
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While preparing an exhibit for a Denver museum, medical illustrator Kate McKinnon and radiologist Max Cavanaugh uncover a secret more than 3,000 years old. They X-ray the mummy of an Egyptian woman, and learn that she died a violent death--her ribs and the bones in her hands are broken, and a man's skull is is found with her body. Using modern technology, they unravel the tale of the young woman's life and death. 388 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Amy Halperin.
The Eye of Horus
Thurston, Carol
New York: William Morrow, 2000.
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Shelley Reinish was an accomplished doctor, wife, and mother. When she unexpectedly dies and is quickly passed off as a suicide, her colleague Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe doesn't believe it. When she starts looking at Shelley's life just before her death, she finds disturbing evidence that all was not well. The deeper she probes, the more worried she becomes. And then she realizes that someone is following her, with murderous intent. The author's first novel. 260 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Cover illustration by Marvin Mattelson.
Blood Run: A Medical Suspense Novel
Robinson, Leah Ruth
New York: New American Library, 1988.
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When an arm is found sticking out of the newly poured concret sidewalk near the President of Laos's mansion, the National Coroner, Dr. Siri Paiboun is ordered to remove the arm and find out to whom it belongs. With the results of the autopsy and his skills as a shaman, Dr. Paiboun solves the case. 247 pp. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4".
Disco for the Departed
Cotterill, Colin
New York: Soho, 2006.
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In Thief of Souls, acclaimed author Ann Benson brings us another novel of parallel tales--one in 15th century France, the other in 21st century Los Angeles. In each tale, a serial killer is targeting children. In the 15th century, Guillemette le Drappiere, companion to the Bishop of Nantes investigates; in 2002, L. A. detective Lany Dunbar is being sought by the very suspect she is pursuing. 482 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Royce M. Becker.
Thief of Souls
Benson, Ann
New York: Delacorte Press, 2002.
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The bodies of anti-abortionists are turning up in Washington, DC. The killer leaves clues on the bodies. leaving no doubt as to why they were killed. The investigation involves people on both sides of the abortion issue, politicians, and influential doctors. The author's first novel. 551 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket illustration by Michael Backus.
The Fourth Procedure
Pottinger, Stanley
New York: Ballantine Books, 1995.
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Signed by the author on the title page. The author's first novel. 325 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/4".
Dangerous Attachments
Lovett, Sarah
New York: Villard Books, 1995.
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Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta are investigating a series of murders in Florida. What's more disturbing, as there seems to be a connection to a serial killer currently in prison in Massachusetts. 406 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Lisa Amorosa.
Predator
Cornwell, Patricia
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2005.
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A Christmas Eve blizzard adds suspense to this tale of deadly viruses and the theft of the only drug known to combat it from the Scottish research lab where it was stored. The lab's security director, former police officer Toni Gallo, is in a race to recover the drug before disaster strikes. 374 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Richard Hasselberger.
Whiteout
Follett, Ken
New York: E. P. Dutton, 2004.
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The tide is turned on Virginia Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta--she's not the investigator this time, but the one being investigated, accused of murder. 449 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2".
The Last Precinct
Cornwell, Patricia
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2000.
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Kay Scarpetta's tenure as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to an end, and she's now a forensic consultant. While working on a case in Louisiana, she's contacted by the evil Jean Baptiste Chandonne, who had relentlessly pursued Scarpetta in a previous book, The Last Precinct. Thought to be safely ensconced on death row, Chardonne escapes from prison and resumes his pursuit of Scarpetta. Then it appears that there's a connection between the Wolfman and the Louisiana case. 465 pp. 9 1/2" 6 1/2". Jacket design by Walter Harper.
Blow Fly
Cornwell, Patricia
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
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This is Passman's first novel. LAPD Detective Danny Talon has been assigned to the case of a serial killer who has committed three murders. Cracking the case seems impossible until Talon contacts a psychiatrist to develop a forensic profile of the killer. The psychiatrist has a patient, Lisa Cleary, who suffers from hallucinations that seem to provide clues to the murders. Talon, Cleary, and the psychiatrist join forces to find the killer, 433 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Tony Greco.
The Visionary
Passman, Don
New York: Warner Books, 1999.
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Daniel Ames has it all--a great job with a great law firm and he's earning more money than he ever thought possible. One of the firm's clients, a pharmaceutical company, is sued for marketing a drug that causes birth defects. When evidence is found that the claim may be true, Daniel finds himself in a web of lies and murder. 292 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cuptich.
The Associate
Margolin, Phillip
New York: Harper Collins, 2001.
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Archaeologist Katharine Sundquist and her son Michael moved to Hawaii so Katharine could study human development in the lava beds. But there are more than human remains under the ocean floor. When Michael is threatened, Katharine takes on the fight of her life. 343 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". Jacket illustration by Danilo Ducak.
The Presence
Saul, John
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1997.
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181 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". Jacket design by Michael Chesworth.
Cold Coffin
Quest, Erica
New York: Doubleday Crime Club, 1990.
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Staff Nurse Carmichael has been promoted and fallen in love, but the road to love isn't always easy. 180 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2".
Angel of Death
Cohen, Anthea
London: Quartet Crime, 1983.
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A topic as relevant today as when this novel was written, The Select portrays the evils that can accompany good intensions gone very wrong. The U.S. health care system has undergone drastic change. Two medical students discover that there's more at stake than the health of their patients: their fellow med school students are being brainwashed to further the aims of a pharmaceutical company.
The Select
Wilson, F. Paul
New York: William Morrow, 1994.
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Kerry McGrath is sitting in a plastic surgeon's waiting room with her daughter, who was injured in a car accident. Another woman in the room looks familiar, but Kerry can't place her. A week later, in the same place, Krry sees the same face--but on a different woman. She realizes the reason the face is familiar is because it had been plastered all over the media when its owner was murdered a decade before. Why would a plastic surgeon keep putting the same face on different patients? And what is the connection to the murder? 319 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design and Illustration by Paul Bacon.
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Clark, Mary Higgins
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
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