Book Review: Fever Cell

Reviewed By: Webspinner - RAM

Fever Cell     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Leonard S. Goldberg
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Medical   Thriller   Woman Main Character
Series: Joanna Blalock # 9
Signet; Dec 2003; 363pp

Joanna Blalock is a forensic pathologist at Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles. Jake Sinclair is a homicide detective for LAPD and her on-again off-again lover. When Joanna is called in by the FBI to do a top secret autopsy of an unidentified man found murdered at LAX, Joanna and Jake fear that they are once again being pulled into another terrorist investigation; the previous one having nearly cost Joanna her life.

While the investigation into the corpse's identity is in progress, another emergency intervenes when a man with symptoms of smallpox arrives at Memorial and everyone who has had contact with him is quarantined in the hospital's basement isolation center; including Joanna.

Based on a scenario that has all the makings of a very real nightmare, Leonard Goldberg has put together a medical thriller that will not only keep you up at night reading, but will probably scare you silly, as it should. Goldberg has an up-to-the-minute, convincing style and the background to back it up. A real find for me.

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