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Chilling Out
'Chillingly believable' The Times
Tom Jones Thriller - Book 4
A body is found frozen solid in the Tamar.
The victim is Dr Adam Goring – the executive behind the imminent closure of the Tamar Transfusion Centre.
But who killed him, and why was his body frozen before being dumped in the river?
The prime suspect is Jessie Pengellis – the centre manager, who Goring vowed to have sacked and sued for slander after accusing him of corruption on a live national television debate.
But he is now voiceless, dead.
When the police struggle to make progress on the case, the Department for Health Inspector, Tom Jones, is sent in.
However, Jones soon discovers that the centre is a hotbed of treachery and depravity, and that the case is not as simple as it seems…
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. His other novels include 'Deliver Them From Evil', 'Death Before Time' and 'Sisters of Mercy'.
Praise for Andrew
'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
'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
'Successful and thoroughly enjoyable novel.' Financial Times
Tom Jones Thriller - Book 4
A body is found frozen solid in the Tamar.
The victim is Dr Adam Goring – the executive behind the imminent closure of the Tamar Transfusion Centre.
But who killed him, and why was his body frozen before being dumped in the river?
The prime suspect is Jessie Pengellis – the centre manager, who Goring vowed to have sacked and sued for slander after accusing him of corruption on a live national television debate.
But he is now voiceless, dead.
When the police struggle to make progress on the case, the Department for Health Inspector, Tom Jones, is sent in.
However, Jones soon discovers that the centre is a hotbed of treachery and depravity, and that the case is not as simple as it seems…
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. His other novels include 'Deliver Them From Evil', 'Death Before Time' and 'Sisters of Mercy'.
Praise for Andrew
'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
'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
'Successful and thoroughly enjoyable novel.' Financial Times
232 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1999
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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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