Works of Fiction – 1

One, Two, Three Times A Murder

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Ben Nealy is a third-year medicine resident at New City Hospital in Cincinatti. Ben’s life is not complicated until he becomes concerned that someone tried to kill a homeless man he treated in hospital. Senior staff physicians were unpersuaded, partly because the patient disappeared. Shortly, however, the patient showed up in the Emergency Department after a second episode that Ben believes is another attempt on the man’s life. This time, Ben gets the attention of Tom Bolling, chief of staff at New City. Tom is a retired air force brigadier general and orthopedic surgeon with a long career of interest in quality-of-care issues, especially those beset by tradition. Tom thinks Ben may be right and asks his friend Detective Ron Looney to assist in the investigation. When Ron goes to get the man’s fingerprints for identification and discovers the man has no fingerprints; the case seems to take a very dark turn at that point. A combination of medical clues and police attention to detail develop a reasonable hypothesis after a third attempt of the man’s life. Tom Bolling and his administrative staff manage an elaborate meeting with a supect that allows Detective Looney to collect unusual data to solve the case.

 

Reviews

★★★★★
This medical murder mystery has a lot of the same characters and the same setting as Death Unexpected; however, it is a stand alone novel. The in-depth look at the medical findings of the cases were especially appealing to me as a member of the medical field. I also enjoyed the back stage look at hospital administration and medical teaching programs. An added bonus is the behind the scenes look into the investigations by the police surrounding the cases. There are a few curse words in this book, but nothing vulgar. It also contains some non-graphic violence. There are no sex scenes in the book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good mystery, especially one related to the medical field.

 

– C. Pennington Sept 2020.

 

★★★★★
I especially like the use of three different and unconnected murders to display the interconnection between the characters in the hospital and the police department. The explanations of hospital concerns and procedures was very clear.
– Nancy R. Sept 2020

 

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