Another Excerpt From My Newest: Death Lover
Dr. LeRoy Haines has just received a woman’s femur discovered in the Everglades. His search reveals more unrelated bones.
Dr. Haines recently transitioned from internal medicine to forensic pathology, and is the newly medical examiner for Monroe County, Florida, which encompasses the Everglades and the Florida Keys.
After a python hunter discovered the bone and turned it in, the doctor organizes a search for more specimens, finding two more limbs and a skull. Again, all the remains are unrelated. Who or what is responsible for the deaths?
A break in the case comes when an intact female skeleton is discovered in the southernmost headquarters of Everglades National Park. The victim is the former secretary of Dr. Clayton Talmadge, chief of pathology at Kendall Hospital, and known for his idiosyncratic beliefs.
Written by a physician, the plot of Death Lover: Investigating Murder in a New Scientific Era offers fascinating insight into modern forensics. The Death Lover is unforgettable.
My Works of Medical Fiction Continue
First, I published my initial medical trilogy (The Class of 1969, Thirteen Months a Year, The Stone Mother) about medical school, my internship and first years in practice.
Then I followed that with my Executive series, where readers will learn about the health care system in depth.
American Nostalgia
If this past 4th of July weekend has you feeling nostalgic about the past, your own childhood, here are links to several of my books about some eras to remember:
An Excerpt From “Executive Vengeance”
Dr. Cal Boyd is a former gastroenterologist who has recovered from his conflicts at North Valley Hospital, having won a large settlement for damages. His enemies are dead or in jail, and his managerial career with Encuentro Medical Group is burgeoning.
On a visit to his step-daughter Donna at Shasta Academy, he learns disturbing details about her father, Ben Hendricks. On his drive home, an unknown shooter threatens his life. Once again, Cal must play detective, because law enforcement is stymied.
Cal embarks on an odyssey that takes him back in history to the Peoples Temple, an offshoot called the Legion of God, and his conflicts with Ben, the father of his step-children. He travels up and down California pursuing a story of human trafficking, drugs, missing money from the Peoples Temple, and murder. His life is under constant treat as he unearths thirty years of corruption.
Another Excerpt From “The Bookmen”
The summer of 1965 is a pivotal time in American history. As the Vietnam War expands toward its ultimate heavy American involvement, the Watts Riots presage the urban unrest of the late 1960s.
This insightful novel follows newlywed couple Max and Jan King, who have just graduated college and are both preparing to start med school at MCLA, a former osteopathic college in East Los Angeles. Max returns to his summer job selling encyclopedias door-to-door, while Jan works in the school’s lab.
Max’s long work hours create a gap in the couple’s previous 24/7 harmonious relationship, which becomes strained due to their incompatible work times. He hangs out a lot with his friend, Art Burton, a brainy Stanford pre-law graduate, who has encyclopedic knowledge of current events and warns about America’s creep toward a full commitment fighting in Vietnam. Max is also exposed to the enticement of drug use and the free love era. This story is truly a Requiem for the Sixties.
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An Excerpt From “The Drug Dealer”
At noon I was summoned to Kumar’s office. He handed me a sheet of paper on his lawyer’s stationary. “You’re fired,” he said. “Clean out your office. This notice explains the basis for your termination. Show yourself out.”
I didn’t say a word. No point in contesting what he had obviously carefully planned out—including the lawyer’s letter. On the way back to my office I asked Linda for boxes and help in clearing out my office.
“What’s going on?”
What Retirement?
7 Books in recent years - that’s not bad for someone who is allegedly retired!
Another Excerpt from “Life Could Be A Dream”
A lot of people stood up one at a time and said things about his mother that he’d never heard before, friends from her hometown, people from the schools where she taught, her cousins, and finally Grandma Nelly, who simply said goodbye. She stared right at Malcolm like it was his fault her daughter was dead. Then they were done.
(An excerpt from my novel “Life Could Be A Dream”)
About “The Bookmen”
Have you read The Bookmen? And where were you during the riots of ‘65?
Another Excerpt From “Marlene”
We stopped in Lone Pine for lunch. Melvin pointed across the highway to a rounded rock formation. “The Alabama Hills is where old Western movies were shot, Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy, and John Wayne, among others. They made two reelers, technically the term for silent comedies, but any short B movie including talkies is a two reeler these days.”
“On Saturday mornings at Marlene’s house in Baldwin Park I watched Randy Rides Again with John Wayne and serials like Flash Gordon. Her dad usually woke up on the couch and watched with us. A nice man for a hopeless drunk. I was sure the outdoor cattle ranch scenes were shot up in Calabasas and Santa Suzanna.”
“In your father’s words, this is all useless mind candy. He has always been a killjoy when it came to having fun for its own sake.”
Another Excerpt From “Pasadena 1984” - About Generation X
Generation X was strikingly different from Baby Boomers. Alex P. Keaton was an epitome—as were my own children, Matt and Sandra. White kids were sullen, resentful, and conservative. They preferred alcohol to pot smoking, but they consumed whatever chemical was at hand.
An Excerpt From “Venoms” about the Vietnam Drug Trade
“If you were in charge, what would you do to end heroin use among the troops in Vietnam?”
He laughed. “Send everybody home. The rest will take care of itself.”
The Pitt Gets It Right
I watched the first season of The Pitt and await subsequent seasons on HULU. Having been a physician for many years I can attest that it’s on target, a great show, and a gritty hour-by-hour view of a busy urban emergency department. The medical care is accurate and current. However, it is more than a situational drama, the subtext is medical ethics. Every episode has elements of ethical dilemmas, which the cast must try to resolve in real time.
Sneak Peek At My Next Novel, “Death Lover”
Fortunately, mosquitos hadn’t returned yet. We had a week at most before they swarmed and drove everyone mad. Cruising along the canal in our power boat, a hundred yards in I spotted a skull on an embankment. Retrieving it required a tough scramble. The steep slope was created when the Army Corps of Engineers dug the channel. I lifted a mature adult skull. Yorik it was not. The sutures were closed, three worn intact teeth remained. Not a youngster for sure.
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