Bücher veröffentlicht von Mantid Press

Dr. Jim Bob Brady, orthopedic surgeon and amateur sleuth, is spending a one-month sabbatical trying to decide whether to remain in his position at University Hospital in Houston, Texas, or move to the Hill Country and work in a more relaxed atmosphere, now that he's the recipient of a windfall legacy. Scaling back would provide him much more free time to golf and spend time with his wife, Mary Louise, and rest, as his wife so aptly puts it. They are renting a condo on the waters of Lake LBJ while making potentially life-changing decisions.As the sabbatical winds down, Jim Bob comes across a newspaper report about six women who have disappeared in the Hill Country in the past year, and he soon gets involved in trying to solve the mysteries. Mary Louise is incensed when JB becomes obsessed with the investigation and takes enormous risks both to himself and to her. She returns to Houston, leaving Brady to his own wiles.Doc Brady also finds himself on the irritable side of law enforcement in the area; some members are even suspects in the women's disappearances, and Brady receives physical threats. While investigating, he encounters a defrocked nun, Sister Mads, who runs a secret shelter for victims of domestic violence, called Mourning Doves. When a Hill Country patient becomes a fatal victim of suspected domestic violence, Brady is thrown into the middle of the chaotic mess.Will Brady solve the mystery of the missing women before he becomes a victim himself? Are the women deceased, or being held captive, or is their disappearance an act of mercy?

Dr. Jim Bob Brady is attempting a difficult knee reconstruction on Melvin Brown, Houston philanthropist and University Hospital board member, when Doc is notified that his wife Mary Louise has been involved in a near-fatal hit-and-run. When Brady arrives at his wife's bedside, he sees the horrific aftermath of the crash, including the worst, a brain injury. He calls for help from all his colleagues, and most importantly from his long-term friend-and son-in-law of Doc's philanthropist patient-Dr. Frank James, a stellar neurosurgeon. But Doc soon learns James's wife, the daughter of the philanthropist patient, has been murdered, and Doc's friend is in mourning, unable to care for Doc's wife. Mary Louise's critical care is left to an extremely unpleasant neurosurgeon that Doc just doesn't trust. While Mary Louise remains in a coma, Doc and his investigator son, J. J. Brady, join forces with the police in working out the mysteries of both the crash and the murder. Who killed Meredith Brown James, and why? Who was driving the car that careened into Mary Louise's car? And was Mary Louise's crash somehow tied to the James murder, or was it just an act of fate?

Plastic surgeon Lou Edwards''s life is complicated by two major issues.One, his wife has lupus, possibly due to leaking silicone from breast implants Edwards himself inserted. And two, his malpractice insurance has been canceled, as it has been for many other plastic surgeons, due to the burgeoning breast implant problem.But it gets worse.Shortly after Edwards threatens an insurance company president on national TV, the president is found murdered in his penthouse.Dr. Jim Bob Brady once again finds himself doing a bit of investigating, this time on behalf of a colleague. But how well does he know this colleague? Is the investigation worth the threat to Jim Bob''s own life? Will he discover that it was a burglary gone bad? A lover''s quarrel? Or is this an act of revenge?