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Beneath the White Coats
At Moriah Medical Center in Miami Beach, saving lives is just part of the story.
When famed cardiac surgeon Dr. Samuel Kohn is arrested during his hospital rounds—accused of murdering a fellow surgeon during a routine operation—the news sends shockwaves through Miami’s elite medical and legal circles. The victim, Dr. Everett Sullivan, was brilliant, arrogant, and widely feared. He made enemies in every hallway. And now he’s dead.Was it surgical negligence… or something far more deliberate?
Former Wall Street analyst turned crime writer Jack Ryder isn’t easily rattled, but something about the case doesn’t sit right. With the media calling it a murder in the OR and the prosecution painting Kohn as a man with motive and means, the court of public opinion is already in session. But Jack isn’t interested in headlines—he wants the truth.
Teaming up with a battle-hardened Miami detective and Dakota Eagle, a fiercely intelligent tech prodigy with a painful past, Jack digs into the inner workings of Moriah Medical. What he finds is a web of deception spanning not just egos and ambition, but affairs, betrayal, and secrets worth killing for. Behind the crisp white coats are personal vendettas, hospital politics, and financial incentives that could ruin reputations—or end lives.
Dr. Sullivan had
– A scrub nurse with a buried grievance.
– A hospital administrator with too much to lose.
– A perfusionist with access and motive.
– A fellow surgeon haunted by past mistakes.
Each had something to gain… and even more to hide.
But is this the real story?
As courtroom drama erupts and the defense scrambles to present a fractured version of the truth, Jack finds himself caught in a puzzle with no clean edges. Just when he thinks he’s pieced it together, the narrative shifts—again. And again. In Owen Parr’s signature style, Beneath the White Coats delivers layer upon layer of twist and revelation, leaving readers breathless until the final page.
With razor-sharp dialogue, morally complex characters, and a pace that never lets up, this is more than a whodunit—it’s a scalpel-sharp exploration of ambition, corruption, and the human cost of secrets.
You may think you’ve read medical thrillers before. But you haven’t been Beneath the White Coats.
Readers who love John Grisham’s courtroom twists, Michael Connelly’s relentless investigations, and Robin Cook’s pulse-pounding medical suspense will fall in love with Jack Ryder.
When famed cardiac surgeon Dr. Samuel Kohn is arrested during his hospital rounds—accused of murdering a fellow surgeon during a routine operation—the news sends shockwaves through Miami’s elite medical and legal circles. The victim, Dr. Everett Sullivan, was brilliant, arrogant, and widely feared. He made enemies in every hallway. And now he’s dead.Was it surgical negligence… or something far more deliberate?
Former Wall Street analyst turned crime writer Jack Ryder isn’t easily rattled, but something about the case doesn’t sit right. With the media calling it a murder in the OR and the prosecution painting Kohn as a man with motive and means, the court of public opinion is already in session. But Jack isn’t interested in headlines—he wants the truth.
Teaming up with a battle-hardened Miami detective and Dakota Eagle, a fiercely intelligent tech prodigy with a painful past, Jack digs into the inner workings of Moriah Medical. What he finds is a web of deception spanning not just egos and ambition, but affairs, betrayal, and secrets worth killing for. Behind the crisp white coats are personal vendettas, hospital politics, and financial incentives that could ruin reputations—or end lives.
Dr. Sullivan had
– A scrub nurse with a buried grievance.
– A hospital administrator with too much to lose.
– A perfusionist with access and motive.
– A fellow surgeon haunted by past mistakes.
Each had something to gain… and even more to hide.
But is this the real story?
As courtroom drama erupts and the defense scrambles to present a fractured version of the truth, Jack finds himself caught in a puzzle with no clean edges. Just when he thinks he’s pieced it together, the narrative shifts—again. And again. In Owen Parr’s signature style, Beneath the White Coats delivers layer upon layer of twist and revelation, leaving readers breathless until the final page.
With razor-sharp dialogue, morally complex characters, and a pace that never lets up, this is more than a whodunit—it’s a scalpel-sharp exploration of ambition, corruption, and the human cost of secrets.
You may think you’ve read medical thrillers before. But you haven’t been Beneath the White Coats.
Readers who love John Grisham’s courtroom twists, Michael Connelly’s relentless investigations, and Robin Cook’s pulse-pounding medical suspense will fall in love with Jack Ryder.
222 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 30, 2025
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Owen Parr
65 books85 followersThe Abduction of Patient Zero: Joey Mancuso, Father O’Brian Crime Mysteries Book 6
2020 FAPA President’s Book Awards Winner – Adult Fiction – Mystery/Suspense (Gold).
Happy to announce that this past December, 2018, I was honored to have won the Bronze Medal from Readers' Favorite during the Miami Book Fair. A "Murder on Wall Street" won for Mystery-Legal genre.
Owen was awarded the New Apple Literary Services award -Solo Medalist in Mystery, for his A Murder on Wall Street on February 14th, 2017. This is a REPEAt award, as Owen won the same award in 2016 for his Operation Raven - The Dead Have Secrets. Readers have compared Owen's novels to classics from Robert Ludlum and Michaels Connelly. One reader wrote: "If Ludlum and Connelly wrote a novel together, it would be an Owen Parr novel." Utilizing his experiences of over a quarter of a century working for Wall Street firms, he has crafted a series of political intrigue and crime novels, fusing fiction with facts. Born in Havana, Cuba, and later growing up in Miami. He enjoys reading fiction to transport himself to another world. And in his writing, he does that for his readers in a very successful way. His readers are fully wrapped in the plots and have fallen in love with his amazing characters.
Published author of articles in trade magazines. Hobby painter of acrylics on canvasses and middle of the road golfer, Owen spends his day still employed in the financial advice industry.
Married at the age of nineteen he pursued a career in electrical engineering until boredom set in. From there he went to own and operate his own multi-branch real estate firm and licensing school.
Since 1986 he has been employed in the financial advice industry. During this time he has written articles for the local paper, political ramblings for his blog and screenplays that he is now converting into fictional novels.
In 1959 my father and mother left everything behind in order to move to the United States. Miami Beach, to be more specific. It is interesting to note, before you say, “Owen Parr” a Cuban? That, my dad, also Owen Parr, was born in New York and his dad moved to Havana when my dad was eight years old.
Moving on, I grew up in Miami Beach, finished my elementary education at St. Joseph’s and attended high school at St. Patrick’s, both in Miami Beach and obviously Catholic schools. After high school, I began college seeking a career in Electrical Engineering. Mr. Parr, my dad, was a Civil engineer and had wanted me to study engineering. My two older brothers had declined that invitation, so I felt duty bound to comply with his wishes.
For six years I worked in the engineering department of our local utility, Florida Power and Light. Bored to death, I opened a side business during the construction boom in South Florida, circa 1970’s and sold floor coverings and appliances to builders for their newly constructed homes and condominiums. This was the time in Miami when the so-called “drug-wars” began, which lasted through the 1980’s.
I consolidated my efforts by selling my part-time business to my partner and left FP&L to go into real estate sales full-time. Four years later, I opened my own real estate company and grew it to five offices with over one hundred associates and a real estate school. In my thirties and in the middle of a personal boom, interest rates for mortgages climbed to 19%, with the Prime Rate at 21%, as Jimmy Carter left and Ronald Reagan became president. No one, I mean, no one bought homes at that point. So, I sold my real estate company for a minuscule fraction of what it had been worth and moved on.
In 1986, just prior to the stock market crash of 1987, I became a financial advisor with a major Wall Street firm. Proud to say, I swam upstream and thirty plus years later, I am still at it and enjoying it tremendously. Taking care of my clients is paramount. Today, I enjoy a partnership in my business with an associate, that will cate
2020 FAPA President’s Book Awards Winner – Adult Fiction – Mystery/Suspense (Gold).
Happy to announce that this past December, 2018, I was honored to have won the Bronze Medal from Readers' Favorite during the Miami Book Fair. A "Murder on Wall Street" won for Mystery-Legal genre.
Owen was awarded the New Apple Literary Services award -Solo Medalist in Mystery, for his A Murder on Wall Street on February 14th, 2017. This is a REPEAt award, as Owen won the same award in 2016 for his Operation Raven - The Dead Have Secrets. Readers have compared Owen's novels to classics from Robert Ludlum and Michaels Connelly. One reader wrote: "If Ludlum and Connelly wrote a novel together, it would be an Owen Parr novel." Utilizing his experiences of over a quarter of a century working for Wall Street firms, he has crafted a series of political intrigue and crime novels, fusing fiction with facts. Born in Havana, Cuba, and later growing up in Miami. He enjoys reading fiction to transport himself to another world. And in his writing, he does that for his readers in a very successful way. His readers are fully wrapped in the plots and have fallen in love with his amazing characters.
Published author of articles in trade magazines. Hobby painter of acrylics on canvasses and middle of the road golfer, Owen spends his day still employed in the financial advice industry.
Married at the age of nineteen he pursued a career in electrical engineering until boredom set in. From there he went to own and operate his own multi-branch real estate firm and licensing school.
Since 1986 he has been employed in the financial advice industry. During this time he has written articles for the local paper, political ramblings for his blog and screenplays that he is now converting into fictional novels.
In 1959 my father and mother left everything behind in order to move to the United States. Miami Beach, to be more specific. It is interesting to note, before you say, “Owen Parr” a Cuban? That, my dad, also Owen Parr, was born in New York and his dad moved to Havana when my dad was eight years old.
Moving on, I grew up in Miami Beach, finished my elementary education at St. Joseph’s and attended high school at St. Patrick’s, both in Miami Beach and obviously Catholic schools. After high school, I began college seeking a career in Electrical Engineering. Mr. Parr, my dad, was a Civil engineer and had wanted me to study engineering. My two older brothers had declined that invitation, so I felt duty bound to comply with his wishes.
For six years I worked in the engineering department of our local utility, Florida Power and Light. Bored to death, I opened a side business during the construction boom in South Florida, circa 1970’s and sold floor coverings and appliances to builders for their newly constructed homes and condominiums. This was the time in Miami when the so-called “drug-wars” began, which lasted through the 1980’s.
I consolidated my efforts by selling my part-time business to my partner and left FP&L to go into real estate sales full-time. Four years later, I opened my own real estate company and grew it to five offices with over one hundred associates and a real estate school. In my thirties and in the middle of a personal boom, interest rates for mortgages climbed to 19%, with the Prime Rate at 21%, as Jimmy Carter left and Ronald Reagan became president. No one, I mean, no one bought homes at that point. So, I sold my real estate company for a minuscule fraction of what it had been worth and moved on.
In 1986, just prior to the stock market crash of 1987, I became a financial advisor with a major Wall Street firm. Proud to say, I swam upstream and thirty plus years later, I am still at it and enjoying it tremendously. Taking care of my clients is paramount. Today, I enjoy a partnership in my business with an associate, that will cate
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July 6, 2025
The premise of this book is great but it reads as if it’s not quite done yet. In fact, the copy I read was filled with editors footnotes (very distracting). Also it is as if the author had to stretch to finish up every possible ending. I felt like it had 2-3 climaxes. Sometimes you don’t need everything wrapped up. You can decide on your own what happened next.
June 7, 2025
Michael Crichton and Robin Cook had always been my go-to authors for spellbinding medical thrillers, but with Beneath the White Coats, Owen Parr may have replaced them, unless this was a one-off for Parr. I can’t say for sure since this was the first book by Parr that I have read. What I can say is that I will be reading the remaining books in this series.
With Jack Ryan, Robert Logan, and Dakota Eagle, Parr has created a cast of memorable characters. With characters so lifelike and a plot so realistic that it might have been taken from yesterday’s headlines, the temporary suspension of disbelief never became an issue for me. Beneath the White Coats is an adrenaline-fueled rollercoaster thrill ride, packed with action and suspense from the first page to the last. Besides the main plotline of Beneath the White Coats, there is a secondary plotline that is just as powerful, which comes to a very satisfying climax about midway through this spellbinding tale.
I loved the way this book ended, but I still didn’t want it to end. I wanted to spend more time with Jack, Logan, and Dakota. I’m off to Amazon to find and download the first three books in this series - The Case of the Dead Russian Spy, Murder Aboard a Cruise to Nowhere, and Murder at the Beach Cove Hotel. I just found them on Amazon as a three-volume box set, and the set is available on KU.
With Jack Ryan, Robert Logan, and Dakota Eagle, Parr has created a cast of memorable characters. With characters so lifelike and a plot so realistic that it might have been taken from yesterday’s headlines, the temporary suspension of disbelief never became an issue for me. Beneath the White Coats is an adrenaline-fueled rollercoaster thrill ride, packed with action and suspense from the first page to the last. Besides the main plotline of Beneath the White Coats, there is a secondary plotline that is just as powerful, which comes to a very satisfying climax about midway through this spellbinding tale.
I loved the way this book ended, but I still didn’t want it to end. I wanted to spend more time with Jack, Logan, and Dakota. I’m off to Amazon to find and download the first three books in this series - The Case of the Dead Russian Spy, Murder Aboard a Cruise to Nowhere, and Murder at the Beach Cove Hotel. I just found them on Amazon as a three-volume box set, and the set is available on KU.
May 27, 2025
I accidentally got this book free on Amazon, thinking it was Clare Gerada's book of the same title. Since it was free, I figured I'd read it since it had good reviews. I'm not sure what those reviewers read, but what I received was definitely an unedited draft. The sentence structure was atrocious--fragmented sentences, missing words, inconsistent tense, subject/verb disagreements, and incoherent subplots.
So many things in the story didn't add up or make sense. The author should check to make sure the correct copy was uploaded because what I read had literally thousands of mistakes.
So many things in the story didn't add up or make sense. The author should check to make sure the correct copy was uploaded because what I read had literally thousands of mistakes.
May 17, 2025
this was a free amazon download for me. the amazon "reviews" seemed fake but i took a chance. it was a really good story but appeared to be a draft that wasn't intended to be published. the entire thing was full of inconsistencies that would have been caught by a competent copy editor. i can only hope the author surrounds himself with a good editing crew to make future work really shine as this book could have were it not for the inconsistencies. again though, it was a really good story.
June 15, 2025
Brilliant narration from Randy McCarten
While doing his rounds cardiac surgeon Dr. Samuel Kohn is arrested for the murder a fellow surgeon Dr Everett Sullivan during a routine operation. Everett may have been brilliant but he was not well liked as he was arrogant.
As Jack digs further into this investigation, he comes across deception, betrayal, secrets, grievance and motives.
Great characters, fast paced and twists that will keep you listening.
While doing his rounds cardiac surgeon Dr. Samuel Kohn is arrested for the murder a fellow surgeon Dr Everett Sullivan during a routine operation. Everett may have been brilliant but he was not well liked as he was arrogant.
As Jack digs further into this investigation, he comes across deception, betrayal, secrets, grievance and motives.
Great characters, fast paced and twists that will keep you listening.
December 12, 2025
The book was full of editors' comments, as other reviewers have said. The author uses an overwhelming number of similes throughout the book, which I found a little distracting. The story was interesting and I appreciated the inclusion of an LGBTQ character.
June 15, 2025
Another Parr grand slam
Tighter than his Mancuso books and just as gripping. Like them, the initial victory is just a prelude to the real meat of the story
Tighter than his Mancuso books and just as gripping. Like them, the initial victory is just a prelude to the real meat of the story
July 9, 2025
good mystery
This book was a really good mystery to pass the time when you are not working a lot…
The writing is really descriptive
This book was a really good mystery to pass the time when you are not working a lot…
The writing is really descriptive
August 1, 2025
This one is a good one!
What a ride. Love this style of writing. Owen, keep up the "ride " This i will continue with you. These 3 are amazing together.
What a ride. Love this style of writing. Owen, keep up the "ride " This i will continue with you. These 3 are amazing together.
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September 16, 2025i ENJOYED THIS BOOK. i HAVE READ A FEW OF THE AUTHOR'S PREVIOUS BOOKS AND HAVE ENJOYED THEM.
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November 12, 2025
Must read!
grabs you from the beginning. Loved seeing bad guys exposed and punished. Dakota is amazing and she , Jack and Logan are an incredible team. Couldn't put it down.
grabs you from the beginning. Loved seeing bad guys exposed and punished. Dakota is amazing and she , Jack and Logan are an incredible team. Couldn't put it down.
December 26, 2025
3-1/2 stars. The plot is good even though the period of time that it takes place in is shrunken. BUT too !any similes and the word "sharp" is used way too often. Several misspellings also.
December 28, 2025
The story was interesting enough but the constant use and misuse of similes and metaphors was overwhelming.
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