Bone Dry (Five Star First Edition Mystery) [Hardcover]

Bette Golden Lamb (Author), J. J. Lamb (Author)

Book Description

Series: Five Star First Edition Mystery | Publication Date: January 2, 2003

You have cancer. And tomorrow you're trying your last chance for survival -- you'll be infused with your own treated bone marrow -- frozen, stored, and safe in one of California's most prestigious hospitals. Then comes the note: "We have your marrow . . . pay or die."

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Medical procedural fans will have a field day with the exciting Bone Dry . . . action packed . . . never slowing down . . ."
-- Harriet Klausner

". . . a fast-paced, complex medical thriller . . . a one-sitting read."
-- Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Five Star; 1 edition (January 2, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786249129
• ISBN-13: 978-0786249121
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,703,052 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this medical thriller, May 5, 2003

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Gabriel Farkas (Tiburon, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bone Dry (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)

As a physician one would think that the last place I'd look for entertainment would be medically related literature. But I find myself drawn to it especially when the story is so plausible and the hospital and clinical characters are so true to life as was the case in this exciting and all-to-possible story. The book just whisked you away from the very start and was impossible to put down. There were some truly macabre and twisted methods that the authors came up with to agonizingly terminate at least one of the characters that only someone in the field could have come up with. But it was the premise of the story that made this one of the best medical mysteries I've read in years because this could really happen and it would be relatively easy given what I know of security in the various hospitals I've worked in to pull this off. Finally, the authors' style of inexorably building tension within a framework of making all the medical technology and jargon understandable to the lay reader just added to the pleasure of this diabolical plot. I highly recommend this book.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars powerful medical procedural thriller, February 4, 2003

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bone Dry (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)

In San Francisco's Ridgewood Hospital, the staff is upset as the bone marrow to be used in an autologous replacement surgery to save the life of patient Carl Chapman is missing from the lab. Especially shook up is nurse Gina Mazzio, who has been with Carl from the beginning of his cancer treatment and now cannot understand why he seems so stoic about his pending death.

Lab worker Faye Lindstron stole the bone marrow at the machinations of her boyfriend Frankie Nellis. She has taken others also as Frankie demands fifty thousand dollars from the near death sufferers or they will die. As Alan Vasquez of administration tries to bury the scandal, Gina and a few other caring medical practitioners struggle to uncover why a simplistic procedure has gone awry not knowing that Frankie will kill to continue his lethal scheme.

Medical procedural fans will have a field day with the exciting BONE DRY even with knowing the perpetrators from almost the beginning as authors Bette Golden Lamb and J.J. Lamb use dramatic irony to make Gina question whether Vasquez is the culprit. The story line is action packed never slowing down until the final beach blanket scene. Though Faye is too pathetic a character and Frankie is too evil, readers will devour this strong thriller starring a wonderful Bronx transplant that is quite the lioness when it comes to protecting her cubs (patients).

Harriet Klausner

3.0 out of 5 stars Bone Dry not dry; a fast read, February 26, 2009

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Lenore Jamison (Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bone Dry (Five Star First Edition Mystery) (Hardcover)

Bone Dry by Bette & J.J. Lamb is a thriller about the theft of bone marrow from a hospital, held for ransom by a loathsome creep. Reads fast, some sex & violence, interesting medical stuff.