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The Cure for Remembering: A Dr. Nora Sternberg Mystery

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I don't usually like medical mysteries because the authors tend to have a difficult time blending the "medical" and the "mystery". In some stories, you lose something if you don't have a physician's knowledge of the practice of medicine. At other times, the medical aspects of the story are superfluous to the point where you wonder why bring them up at all. In this book, the two elements are blended very well. The medical points are central to the story and you don't have to be a doctor to understand them. I also liked the character development.

IJW

Too much family. Too many relatatives. Too much genealogy. Too much extraneous detail. Thin, not very well developed plot.

At $0.44 plus shipping the book is overpriced. I'd like to know the details of how this book was published, and can't imagine how it could be viewed as potentially profitable.

Although the grammar and paragraph structure are okay, the storyline is awful: severely padded with extraneous nonsense such as lists of relatives with their names vis-a-vis what they are routinely called. And this occurs repeatedly.

The medical naratives are irrelevant (except to remind the reader that the author is a physician) and serve as additional diluent. The book could open with a paragraph that summarizes the salient facts within the first 75 pages. That's all I could justify reading.

If you enjoy a good mystery with an attractive protaganist and an insiders view of what really goes on in a hospital, this is for you.