Hunting for Hippocrates: A Novel

Rating:
Summary: Medical Mystery to Please the Most Avid Fan of this Genre
Review: Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of This is the Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered

This is not your run-of-the-mill whodunnit.

Part of its fascination is its medical connection. Stucki is an M.D. Even with that background, he acknowledges another physician who helped him with questions of internal medicine. Naturally, I trusted his science; I learned to trust his keen sense for character when I read his first book, BOY'S POND, so I expected no less from this one.

That this novel is set in southern Utah takes it out of the realm of mysteries set in more traveled, better-known spots. The "foreignness" of the place and its people are rare occurances in literature. Many novels set in Utah are not written by natives but have been researched--dare I say sparsely? It is a state dominated by a much misunderstood culture. Most know the area is beautiful (red, iron rich plateaux, wind swapt canyons reminiscent of the Grand Canyon, volcanic action aplenty) but relatively few have sampled it to any great extent. HUNTING FOR HIPPOCRATES may give a reader a taste for learning still more about it.

(Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This is the Place, has won eight awards. It, too, is set in Utah.)

Rating:
Summary: Medical Mystery to Please the Most Avid Fan of this Genre
Review: Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of This is the Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered

This is not your run-of-the-mill whodunnit.

Part of its fascination is its medical connection. Stucki is an M.D. Even with that background, he acknowledges another physician who helped him with questions of internal medicine. Naturally, I trusted his science; I learned to trust his keen sense for character when I read his first book, BOY'S POND, so I expected no less from this one.

That this novel is set in southern Utah takes it out of the realm of mysteries set in more traveled, better-known spots. The "foreignness" of the place and its people are rare occurances in literature. Many novels set in Utah are not written by natives but have been researched--dare I say sparsely? It is a state dominated by a much misunderstood culture. Most know the area is beautiful (red, iron rich plateaux, wind swapt canyons reminiscent of the Grand Canyon, volcanic action aplenty) but relatively few have sampled it to any great extent. HUNTING FOR HIPPOCRATES may give a reader a taste for learning still more about it.

(Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This is the Place, has won eight awards. It, too, is set in Utah.)