Deadly Medicine

Rating:
Summary: A real nail-biter!
Review: It keeps you on your toes from the start. Its tales of unthinkable hospital occurances keep you thinking that they could really happen! Page after page, you wonder if you'll ever feel safe in a hospital again! Goldberg writes so eloquently that you feel as if you have jumped right into the shoes of Joanna or Jake...or even those of a murderous nurse!

Rating:
Summary: Not as good as his other novels
Review: OK, I enjoyed reading this novel. The plot is well constructed at first, and there is a lot of action and suspense. But I was also disappointed. Unlike in the other novels the main characters - above all Joanna Blalock - are not really consistent or believable in their presentation, with the exception of Sinclair. The ending is a real surprise - but too many questions remain open. Some lines of the plot just stop or fade away without a logical explanation. I prefer the other Blalock novels.

Rating:
Summary: Riveting
Review: When someone starts killing nurses at a prestigious L.A. hospital, forsenic pathologist Joanna Blalock decides to investigate and is thrown into a spiraling vortex of deceit and danger that pits her against a murderer. It has been quite a while since I've read such a compulsively readable medical thriller. This book kept me guessing "whodunnit" right until the very end. If you like Robin Cook and Michael Palmer, you'll really enjoy Leonard Goldberg.