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Kill or Cure: A Medical Thriller Omnibus
Kill or Cure: A Medical Thriller Omnibus
SISTERS OF MERCY
Latchvale Hospital.
As another patient dies unexpectedly, Sister Farewell begins to suspect that a serial killer is at work in the Intensive Therapy Unit. After reporting her fears to the police, Home Office investigator Tom Jones enlists Jo’s help in his undercover operation.
As Jones and Sister Farewell investigate they find sinister connections between the patients that lead them into a world of religious fanaticism and cold-blooded manipulation…
DELIVER THEM FROM EVIL
When Sister Jo Farewell is persuaded to investigate a fertility scam at a well-respected clinic for the rich, she already knows it’s not in her best interests. After all, her partner in crime will be ex-love Tom Jones, they’ll be posing as an infertile married couple, and the scars from their brief relationship a couple of years ago have still not healed.
But her curiosity—and the chance to pay off her mortgage with the fee she’ll earn—gets the better of her, and soon she and Tom are playing their respective roles to perfection.
But it may take longer than she’d first realised. For this is a deadly, high stakes game, where she and Tom are mere pawns in the hands of a terrifying adversary—and someone, somewhere, has a lot to lose, and will stop at nothing to silence them…
DEATH BEFORE TIME
Dr Fraser Callan is recovering from his wife’s death. In need of a change, he takes a job at the Wansborough Community Hospital in Wiltshire.
Previously known as St. James’, the hospital has made a miraculous recovery from a scandalous history, when it was described as “Death Wards” for the elderly by the national press.
But history sometimes comes back to haunt us…
At first, the hospital seems a model of excellence, but then Fraser realises that more patients are dying of pneumonia than should be the case. When he raises the matter, he is ridiculed, threatened with the sack and finally beaten up by gangs of thugs.
Then, after the suspicious death of an old man with terminal cancer, Fraser realises he must act.
He reports his suspicions and is persuaded by Marcus Evans, a mysterious civil servant, to work undercover to find the killer.
But who is the culprit? And can Fraser find him before he also meets his Death Before Time?
Praise for Andrew Puckett:
‘If medical mysteries are what keep you glued to your fireside chair… then look no further. Puckett, something of a master of the genre, has penned a cracker’ Western Daily Press
‘A thoroughly well-worked mystery’ Oxford Times
‘An interesting story with a very plausible plot and frightening overtones’ Mystery News
‘A terrifying scenario made all the more chillingly believable by its similarities to real life situations’ The Southern Daily Echo
‘The best thing about it is its remarkable feeling of authenticity’ Birmingham Post
Andrew Puckett worked in the NHS for twenty one years, fifteen of them as microbiologist for the Oxford Blood Transfusion Centre, before turning to writing and teaching.
729 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 3, 2018
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About the author
Andrew Puckett
27 books25 followersAndrew Puckett is a writer who feels he should experience for himself the trials imposed on his protagonists.
Examples are: Being locked in a freezer room at -40 degrees, Climbing a 1000 foot cliff from a rocky beach in the dark, Then encountering the Exmoor Beast (involuntary), Escaping from a prison ship (not actually incarcerated!), Falling into the sea from Durdle Dor (not quite), Escaping from a burning caravan etc.
Before that, he grew up on his parents' farms, the first in a remote part of Dorset, the second in the shadow of Salisbury cathedral.
He worked in a brewery, a chemical factory and Porton Germ Warfare Establishment, where he acquired a painful immunity to Plague, Anthrax and Smallpox (which did at least give him the idea for his novel Going Viral). He then worked in hospital labs in Taunton, London and finally Oxford, where he ran the microbiology department at Oxford Blood Transfusion Centre for fifteen years.
His first novel, Bloodstains, was derived from his experiences in the Blood Transfusion Service. He has subsequently published ten more, mostly on a medical theme. He now lives in Taunton with his wife and daughters.
Examples are: Being locked in a freezer room at -40 degrees, Climbing a 1000 foot cliff from a rocky beach in the dark, Then encountering the Exmoor Beast (involuntary), Escaping from a prison ship (not actually incarcerated!), Falling into the sea from Durdle Dor (not quite), Escaping from a burning caravan etc.
Before that, he grew up on his parents' farms, the first in a remote part of Dorset, the second in the shadow of Salisbury cathedral.
He worked in a brewery, a chemical factory and Porton Germ Warfare Establishment, where he acquired a painful immunity to Plague, Anthrax and Smallpox (which did at least give him the idea for his novel Going Viral). He then worked in hospital labs in Taunton, London and finally Oxford, where he ran the microbiology department at Oxford Blood Transfusion Centre for fifteen years.
His first novel, Bloodstains, was derived from his experiences in the Blood Transfusion Service. He has subsequently published ten more, mostly on a medical theme. He now lives in Taunton with his wife and daughters.
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April 9, 2019
A triple feature
The three books in this omnibus are connected by several characters, Marcus Evans, Tom Jones, and Jo Farewell.
In Sisters of Mercy, elderly hospital patients are dying of heart attacks when they should be preparing to go home. Sister Jo Farewell quietly visits the police and Tom Jones turns up at the hospital for an undercover investigation.
In Deliver Us from Evil, serious allegations are made concerning the death of a patient at a private fertility clinic. Jo Farewell and Tom Jones pose as a married couple seeking treatment at the clinic so they can search for information about the patient's death.
In Dead Before Time, a doctor takes a temporary position at a community hospital. It appears to Dr. Fraser Callan that an unusually high number of patients are dying of pneumonia. Once again, Nurse Farewell goes undercover to investigate.
As medical thrillers go, I thought these stories were excellent. The plots were interesting with enough suspense and danger to keep me turning pages. I have already downloaded more books by this author.
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The three books in this omnibus are connected by several characters, Marcus Evans, Tom Jones, and Jo Farewell.
In Sisters of Mercy, elderly hospital patients are dying of heart attacks when they should be preparing to go home. Sister Jo Farewell quietly visits the police and Tom Jones turns up at the hospital for an undercover investigation.
In Deliver Us from Evil, serious allegations are made concerning the death of a patient at a private fertility clinic. Jo Farewell and Tom Jones pose as a married couple seeking treatment at the clinic so they can search for information about the patient's death.
In Dead Before Time, a doctor takes a temporary position at a community hospital. It appears to Dr. Fraser Callan that an unusually high number of patients are dying of pneumonia. Once again, Nurse Farewell goes undercover to investigate.
As medical thrillers go, I thought these stories were excellent. The plots were interesting with enough suspense and danger to keep me turning pages. I have already downloaded more books by this author.
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February 11, 2019
1st time in this genre. Very readable, believable characters & quite a few twists & turns to make it exciting. Also learned some medical stuff which is interesting for a senior like me.
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