Deadly Rhythm

A masterpiece thriller: Al Romanzo is a World War II veteran living out his days in a nursing home in the coal-mining region of northeastern Pennsylvania. A nasty fall prompts an admission to a Scranton hospital where, a few days later, he dies after an unexpected cardiac arrest. His two children, who had abandoned him years earlier upon leaving for Southern California, decide to bring a malpractice claim against his doctors. Dr. Paul Wilson, the defendant cardiologist, requests a case review by Dr. Philip Sarkis, a brilliant academic who lost his career, his family, and nearly his sanity in a messy malpractice case years before. Philip and his partner Dorothy Deaver, dive into the case to find out that Al isn t the only elderly man who died suddenly and unexpectedly in area hospitals. And as they unravel the case, and their own lives are threatened, some familiar friends enter the scene to find ultimate justice.

Dr. Kowey is an internationally respected expert in heart rhythm disorders. After college at St. Joseph s University in Philadelphia, he attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania and trained in cardiology at Harvard. For the past thirty-one years, he has developed a large referral practice in the Philadelphia region, caring for thousands of patients with various cardiac rhythm problems while teaching and mentoring countless medical students, residents, fellows, and physicians in practice. Dr. Kowey s research has led to the development of dozens of new drugs and devices for treating a wide range of cardiac diseases. He authored hundreds of scientific articles and textbook chapters before embarking on his first work of fiction, the widely praised Lethal Rhythm, published in 2010. Dr. Kowey and his wife, Dorothy, have three daughters and six grandchildren. Their permanent residence is in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, but they spend time throughout the year with their Portuguese water dogs at their lake house in the Pocono Mountains.