Book description
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 doctoras husband, a surgeon, and this
makes her a aperson of interesta to the police, if not at outright
suspect. But someone other than the cops is watching Cheryl Beth. 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. The Pain Nurse begins a new
series by the author of the award-winning David Mapstone series. When
Cheryl Beth Wilson, a pain nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital, finds
the body of a doctor murdered in a remote office, she becomes a suspect
because she had an affair with the doctor's husband. Luckily, one of her
patients is a former homicide detective who recognizes the crime scene
as similar to that of the work of a serial killer who terrorized the
city a few years earlier. 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. Author Jon Talton's writing was
developed over 20 years as a journalist, working for newspapers in San
Diego, Denver, Dayton, Cincinnati, Charlotte, and Phoenix. Jon's columns
have appeared in newspapers throughout North America. Before journalism,
Jon worked as an ambulance medic in the inner city of Phoenix. He now
lives in Seattle, WA.
