The Pain Nurse
$31.10
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2012
Summary
What does it take to keep a dedicated cop down?Jon Talton staked out the Southwest in his award-winning David Mapstone mysteries. The Washington Post called Concrete Desert, “more intelligent and rewarding than most contemporary mysteries.” And author John Lescroart labeled Arizona Dreams, “a pure delight,” saying that Mapstone is “one of the most compelling characters in the mystery scene in several years.“Now Jon Talton turns to a gritty hospital in a Midwestern city seething with racial tension for The Pain Nurse. Cheryl Beth Wilson is an elite nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital who finds a doctor brutally murdered in a secluded office. Wilson had been having an affair with the doctor’s husband, a surgeon, and this makes her a “person of interest” to the police, if not at outright suspect. Yet someone is following and watching Cheryl Beth, and it’s not the cops.The killing comes as former homicide detective Will Borders is just hours out of surgery. But as his stretcher is wheeled past the crime scene, he knows this is no random act of violence. Instead, it has all the marks of a serial killer case he supposedly solved years before. Rebuked by his former partner and unable even to walk, Borders starts to investigate. He teams up with Cheryl Beth, who is desperate to clear her name. But as the city teeters on the edge of violence and a killer grows closer, the two are running out of time to unlock the secrets of the murder and the brooding, old hospital.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590587195 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590587197 |
| Author: | Jon Talton |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 313g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Cincinnati Casebooks |
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Critics Review
“The author of the David Mapstone series set in Phoenix (Cactus Heart, etc.) puts an interesting twist on the detective solving a mystery while bed-ridden scenario in this tense, well-crafted whodunit. A brief glimpse of a horrific murder scene in Cincinnati Memorial Hospital is enough to tell Will Borders, an ex-homicide cop who’s recovering from the removal of a spinal cord tumor, that the crime resembles those committed by the killer dubbed the Mount Adams Slasher. The man convicted of the slasher’s crimes, however, was caught, tried and executed. Cheryl Beth Wilson, the pain nurse specialist who discovered the victim, Dr. Christine Lustig, becomes a suspect once the police learn she had an affair with Lustig’s husband. Borders, one of Wilson’s patients, isn’t even ambulatory as the two start sharing information about the case. Talton’s authentic depiction of hospital life lends heft, as do his searing descriptions of Borders’s physical pain and mental anguish during recovery.” –Publishers Weekly of The Pain Nurse, 1/19/2009 STARRED REVIEW “Talton, author of the award-winning David Mapstone (Cactus Heart) series, demonstrates his versatility in depicting the little-known world of the hospital pain nurse. A strong series launch, for all collections.” –Library Journal starred review of The Pain Nurse “A nurse who understands pain, a cop who’s got plenty of it and a cold case turned hot mesh smoothly in the latest from Talton (Cactus Heart, 2007, etc.)… Nicely done. Though she’s a pain nurse, Cheryl Beth is a pleasure.” –Kirkus Reviews of The Pain Nurse
Jon Talton
Jon Talton is the author of eight novels, including the David Mapstone mysteries as well as The Pain Nurse. He has been an editor and columnist for the Dayton Daily News, Cincinnati Enquirer, Rocky Mountain News, Charlotte Observer, and Arizona Republic. He lives in Seattle where he is economics columnist for the Seattle Times.
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