Bone Dry

Terri Blackstock, Bette Golden Lamb. Five Star (ME), $26.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-7862-4912-1

In Bone Dry, a medical thriller not for the squeamish by Bette Golden Lamb and J.J. Lamb, an avaricious lab technician is holding cancer patients' bone marrow for ransom. Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini provide a blurb testifying to the authors' storytelling skills.

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