Fatal Reaction

Robin Cook fans should enjoy Frisch's solid and suspenseful medical thriller, set in Marion, N.Y. Paramedic Ana Ashmore is devastated when she learns the reason she wasn't called to respond to an emergency; the victim found dead in a sleazy hotel turns out to be her older sister, Sydney Dowling. Despite some preliminary indications that Sydney took her own life, the senior officer on the scene, Sgt. Mike Richardson, who raised the sisters after the death of their parents, deems it a homicide. The reader learns, before Ana and Mike do, that the murder may be tied to a medical breakthrough in a local hospital. Dr. Dorian Carmichael has developed a revolutionary uterine transplant procedure that could help woman unable to conceive on their own. But Dorian's first patient, Stephanie Martin, doesn't fare so well after the operation, leading to an effort to cover up her connection with Sydney. The prime villain will come as a surprise to many. This title is also available as an e-book from Thomas & Mercer. (BookLife)