Friday, April 26, 2019

Seven top medical mysteries and thrillers

Kathleen Valenti is the author of the Maggie O’Malley Mysteries, a pharmaceutical/medical mystery series that includes her Agatha- and Lefty-nominated debut novel, Protocol, fan favorite 39 Winks, and recently released As Directed.

At CrimeReads she tagged "a short list of medical mysteries and thrillers that function as great-reads therapy," including:
Speaking in Bones, by Kathy Reichs

Kathy Reichs’ longstanding Temperance Brennan series proves that more is more. The eighteenth(!) book in the series, Speaking in Bones is a forensic thriller featuring a (potentially) murdered girl, a (slightly annoying) amateur sleuth, and a (strangely) secretive religious sect, all wrapped up in mélange of mystery and suspense. It’s almost enough to make a reader want to hang around the morgue. Almost.
Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue