Limited Time

by Robert Greer

When one of his closest friends and colleagues, Dr. Tess Gilliam, a Nobel-track scientist, turns up murdered execution style, pathologist Henry Bales believes that her death is linked to the research of maverick scientist Neil Cardashian, who claims to have unlocked the secrets of aging. 15,000 first printing.

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 11, 2000

About the author

Robert Greer, author of the CJ Floyd mystery series, lives in Denver, where he is a practicing surgical pathologist, research scientist, and Professor of Pathology and Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He also edits the High Plains Literary Review, reviews books for National Public Radio, and raises Black Baldy cattle on his ranch near Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Series:
* C. J. Floyd

Reviews

[Leslie Conner · Rating 3 out of 5]

This story told many individual stories in the first few chapters. Eventually I understood how they connected. It started out frustrating as a reader but I was relieved as they started to make a bigger picture and flesh out the characters and their significance. It’s an interesting topic and scientifically relevant to this day and age of medical discoveries.

[Ellenbeth Wachs · Rating 2 out of 5]

It is billed as amedical mystery but is more about science and the fountain of youth and dna sequencing. It was well-written which is big these days as I am coming across more and more books with really terrible dialogue. The problem I found was it just didn't hold my attention which is saying a lot. A book doesn't have to be that great for me to want to finish it.

This book was a story about scientists looking for the fountain of youth and/or the ability to be great athletes. It doesn't ever really make a distinction. There is a distractiong side story that is rather irrelavant about a cuban boxer taking this elixir and his mother that are involved in a plot to smuggle bogus cuban cigars.

While the storyline was interesting in a bland way, the scientific aspect could have been done in a manner that was more compelling. The death of the athlete in the beginning was so underwhelming as to make you have no connection to her or the plot.

eh- so so

[Ray Pettiford · Rating 4 out of 5]

Walter Mosley meets Robin Cook which is not surprising since Robert Greer the mystery writer is also a professor of pathology, medicine, surgery, and dentistry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.