Flesh and Blood/ Patricia Cornwell/ 369 pages

Flesh and Blood, written by Patricia Cornwell, is the latest adventure of Kay Scarpetta.  In this thriller a seemingly highly skilled sniper is taking out everyday people doing everyday things.  Only after some digging does Kay realize everyone is somehow connected to her.  This book is a great improvement over recent Scarpetta novels.  Most of the story takes place in reality and less in Kay's mind than previous installments.  This book would appeal to someone who likes police procedurals and medical stories.
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Trauma / John J. Fried and John G. West 152 p.

Dr. Allan Kirk, trauma physician, loses a young accident victim due, in part, to protocols and procedures surrounding after hours ERs. While researching needless dying after trauma ER treatments, he meets Julie McDonough, a medical statistician. After remarks to the press, Kirk is embroiled in a fight to save his career. Hospital politics and an unscrupulous hospital administrator on track to increase profits keep him off-balance.

Readers of this work may enjoy the hospital novels of Frank G. Slaughter.

The Mephisto Club / Terri Gerritsen / 468 KB

I don't remember the number of pages . . . how about KB. I love my ebook reader! (although limited on the titles).

Scary, does evil exist in the form of demons amongst us? You decide.

Foreign Body/ Robin Cook/ 436 pp

This medical thriller explores the medical tourism phenomenon. Jennifer Hernandez is a few months away from graduating from medical school when she hears about her grandmother's death on CNN. From almost the beginning her grandmother's death seemed odd. Her grandmother, Maria, in an attempt to save money, flew to India to have hip replacement surgery. She died unexpectedly from heart failure a few hours after recovery. It also seemed like CNN knew about Maria's death almost before it happened. Her death seemed to start a trend of one unexpected death a night. Jennifer is immediately suspicious -- but even she couldn't imagine real reason her grandmother was targeted.

This was my first Robin Cook book. I enjoyed the premise of the book and the way that Jennifer went about figuring out what happened to her grandmother. I found the people behind the deaths to be not very believable. Their mistakes were obvious and I thought they made themselves too easily found out. They were committing a perfect crime and would have been overlooked if they hadn't started killing people every night. Plus they panicked and revealed themselves when the evidence was pointing away from them. I like my "evil masterminds" to be a little smarter than that! I know that Cook is a popular author so I'm thinking I picked up the wrong book as my first.