Deadly Medicine [Mass Market Paperback]

Kelly Moore (Author), Dan Reed (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1989

She killed for thrills. The sensational story of nurse Genene Jones shocked a nation as more than 30 children were murdered by an angel of mercy. This is the whole story, from the doctors that hired her to the trial that followed. Featured in Redbook. Martin's.

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From Publishers Weekly

In recounting this unusual serial-murder case, Reed, an actor and screen writer, and Moore, a Los Angeles family law attorney, convincingly probe the mind of Genene Jones, a nurse and mother of two, who was convicted of killing at least 30 infants with injections of medicine that for them was poisonous while working in the pediatric intensive care unit of the San Antonio County Hospital and in a newly opened pediatrics clinic run by her friend Kathleen Hollander, a physician. After interviewing victims' parents, hospital staff and court officials, and after extensive research through medical records and legal briefs, the authors summarize the 1984 murder trial and theorize that Jones created the fatal emergencies in order to play a heroic role on Code Blue life-saving teams. She is now serving a life sentence in a Texas prison. This is a sensational tale unsensationally but grippingly re-created. Photos not seen by PW. First serial to Redbook; author tour.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 295 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press (October 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312915799
• ISBN-13: 978-0312915797
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,261,355 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great True crime book, July 21, 2001

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Monica (La Feria, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deadly Medicine (Mass Market Paperback)

I really enjoyed reading this book it was very interesting and thought that the authors did an amazing job interviewing the key people. It did get a little slow at times but it was just because of all the details. It did have a little too much detail as to what was done to the children and the effects that occurred but it helps us understand and realize what the parents and medical staff had to see these helpless children go through. I do recommend this book to all who like to read true crime. Enjoy! :o)

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A sensational tale, unsentationally told, October 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Deadly Medicine (Mass Market Paperback)

I have to quibble with the previous reviewer. The book -- the result of years of research and absolutely factual (as it says in the Preface) -- was the BASIS for the well-received although fictionalized TV-Movie-of-the-Week. The book is, also, not your average True-Crime; this one is, like Capote's classic IN COLD BLOOD, a NOVEL as well. You won't be disappointed. (A final note: Dan Reed was not a "contributor," he was the CO-author, and, at the time, married to Ms. Moore.)

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not the best book about Genene Jones, November 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Deadly Medicine (Mass Market Paperback)

I read this book but it had a lot of un- information. I got more out of the movie. It does give a little info but not enought.