Surgical Risk

Robert I. Katz. Willowgate Press, $12.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-1-930008-05-2

Over the last nine years, 74 patients at the New York Metropolitan Medical Center have contracted HIV during their stay; though art director Bennett James helms a PR campaign designed to improve the hospital's image, he knows the situation is grave. Someone at the facility is deliberately injecting the patients with infected blood, and as Bennett digs further into the mystery, he finds more and more suspects in David E. Feldman's complexly plotted, highly populated medical whodunit, Bad Blood: A Long Island Mystery.

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