BLOOD RUN

When a brilliant young doctor dies of a self-induced overdose, her friend and colleague, Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe, starts asking questions that expose a shocking medical world rife with tension, scandal, and murderous intent

YA-- Readers who enjoy medical thrillers will enjoy this suspenseful first novel set in a hospital in which a prominent doctor commits suicide. A complex set of relationships among the medical staff adds to the intrigue. Robinson uses the feelings and actions of the main character, Evelyn Sutcliffe, to set the tone. Dr. Sutcliffe unravels the clues surrounding the death of her friend, and in the final pages confronts the killer. Readers who enjoy Robin Cook's books should give this new novelist a try.
- Susan Penny, St. Cecilia's School, Houston
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A suspense-packed, hard-edged tale of the real world in one of New York's big hospitals, this first novel by a medical technician has good credentials as an authentic medical thriller. Evelyn Sutcliffe, M.D., resident in emergency medicine, is on duty when her colleague, Dr. Shelley Reinish, is brought in to the emergency room by her frantic husband; she is comatose from an overdose of medication, apparently a suicide attempt. Attempts to save her life fail and Evelyn grieves for this friend who had a brillant future in surgery. Drawn into the case is Evelyn's lover and Dr. Reinish's psychiatrist, Phil Carchiollo. Did he have clues that Shelley was contemplating suicide? Or was her death murder? Stories of bizarre behavior in the operating room lead a shaken Evelyn to other discoveries about the dead surgeon. Tales of her eccentric conduct with staff doctors and talk of an expose she was writing that contained provocative interviews with her peers are mysterious developments. When Evelyn's own investigation turns up some horrifying surprises it becomes clear that Shelley's life was not as placid as everyone believed. Riveting prose tends to redeem occasional wordy passages of medicalese (anesthesia to the uninitiated) and the setting is authentic and the characters believable. Though now and again melodramatic, the story unfolds at a forceful clip.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This first novel by a medical technician introduces Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe, resident in Emergency Medicine at University Hospital in Manhattan. When friend and mentor Dr. Shelley Reinish dies of an aspirin overdose at the hospital, clever and suspicious Evelyn starts looking into the circumstances. Standard, superficial genre fare, with the attendant medical terminology, doctoral love affairs, and lengthy explanatory dialogues, but also a few raggedy edges like character inconsistencies and lack of direction. With a little more practice, though, Robinson could compete with Cook or Noguchi. REK
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