Death Medicine [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Kat Goldring (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2, 2003

On the way back from a school conference in Austin, a freak blizzard delays Willi Gallagher's train. She and the other passengers, including Native American investigator Quannah Lassiter, are forced to hole up at a nearby inn. But a bigger storm is brewing inside--someone has been murdered!

Product Details

• Hardcover: 361 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press; 1 edition (February 2, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786250267
• ISBN-13: 978-0786250264
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,251,357 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Death Medicine, February 6, 2003

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Penny P. Hammack "pig headed" (Hurst, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death Medicine (Paperback)

This is easily the worst book I have read in a long time. To start with, I've lived in Texas all my life and there never has been nor would there be a blizzard to equal the one in the book. And a B&B that has snowshoes! Give me a break. It was so bad that I started to notice quirks, like using seen for scene, and the incredibly weird font on the first line of every section. And the Jamaican porter talked like one of Harry Potter's house elves and not like any Jamaican (or other human being) that I have ever heard. Find something else.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars srong amateur sleuth, August 18, 2002

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death Medicine (Paperback)

Teacher Willi Gallagher is taking an early bird Amtrak train from Austin to her hometown of Nickleberry. She leaves early to avoid running into Texas Ranger Lassiter except he boards the same train. Things go downhill from there as Willi witnesses a vitriolic fight between Congressman Van Bauer and his ex-wife BeeBee. She also observes a heated exchange between the Congressman and the train porter Uzell Speer.

When the train is forced to stop because of a blizzard and ice on the tracks, the seven passengers are lodged in a nearby motel. On their very first night there, the Congressman is brutally murdered and all of the guests have a reason to want to see him dead. Willi and Lassiter continually butt heads over her role in his investigation.

DEATH MEDICINE is more serious in scope than the first novel in this series, ALL SIGNS POINT TO MURDER. Still the novel contains a humorous side as the bickering between the two protagonists masks an attraction that neither will acknowledge. The mystery is cleverly constructed and will have readers guessing who the actual murder is. Kat Goldring is a fresh new voice in the amateur sleuth sub-genre.

Harriet Klausner

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Death Medicine, September 4, 2002

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Haskell Boring (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death Medicine (Paperback)

Kat Goldring is a creative writer of admirable talent.
Goldring has done a thoughtful job of story telling-mixing contemporary detective work with Indian mythology. Mystery swirls on every page of Death Medicine. Carefully written for those with the tensest of imagination. A classic "page turner."