Urgent Care (Angels of Mercy) [Paperback]

CJ Lyons (Author)

Book Description

Series: Angels of Mercy | Publication Date: October 27, 2009

CJ Lyons returns to the front lines of the ER and the lives and loves of four very special women. Angels of Mercy Hospital charge nurse Nora Halloran has been living with a painful secret for two long years. When a coworker is assaulted and killed, Nora must face her deepest fears and reveal all her secrets to the man she loves to stop the killer from striking again.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

As a pediatric ER doctor, New York Times Bestseller CJ Lyons has lived the life she writes about in her cutting edge Thrillers with Heart.

CJ has been called a "master within the genre" (Pittsburgh Magazine) and her work has been praised as "breathtakingly fast-paced" and "riveting" (Publishers Weekly) with "characters with beating hearts and three dimensions" (Newsday).

Her newest project is as co-author of a new suspense series with Erin Brockovich. Learn more about CJ's Thrillers with Heart at cjlyons.net

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Jove; Original edition (October 27, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0515147052
• ISBN-13: 978-0515147056
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #679,502 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A breathtaking medical thriller., December 1, 2009

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Detra Fitch "Always hunting good books." (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Urgent Care (Angels of Mercy) (Paperback)

Nora Halloran is walking into Angels of Mercy Medical Center, to begin her shift as ER charge nurse, when she spies someone dying from an assault in the cemetery across the way. Karen, one of hospital's nurse anesthetists, had been physically assaulted, stabbed multiple times, and left for dead. Karen dies in the emergency room. No clues can be found to identify her attacker and many in the hospital had reason to dislike the woman. But Nora recognizes the attacker's work. Karen's killer is the same man that had kidnapped and physically assaulted Nora two years ago. Though Nora never reported what had happened to her, she can no longer keep quiet.

Lydia Fiore (an ER attending doctor with a major secret of her own), Gina Freeman (an emergency medicine resident with famous parents trying to run her life), Seth Cochran (a surgery resident with a past involving Nora and Karen), and Jerry Boyle (a homicide detective and Gina's fiancé) are but some of the people that join Nora in the struggle to unmask a killer. As the clock ticks, the victim count grows.

***** FIVE STARS! This entire story takes place in less than three full days. The E.R. cases and hospital protocols are extremely realistic. It is crystal clear that the author, C.J. Lyons, knows her crafts (both medical and writer) well. As Lyons weaves her web of suspense and intrigue, she manages to convey to the reader the hectic pace and emotionally draining times in which those working within the medical professions face daily. A real eye opener! *****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Follow-up for characters, July 28, 2010

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R. Pierini "avid TC fan" (Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Urgent Care (Angels of Mercy) (Paperback)

Intriguing way to follow-up on characters introduced in earlier books of the series.

New insights into each character, but focus on an ER nurse. New emergencies, new situations, hospital politics, personal problems all together and a real read to the end!

Thanks, C.J.!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Angels of Mercy, April 27, 2010

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H. Grove "Errant Dreams Reviews" (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Urgent Care (Angels of Mercy) (Paperback)

CJ's "Angels of Mercy" novels center around the four women, and it would be best to start from the beginning with Lifelines and Warning Signs. That said, I dove in with the latter of those two and didn't find it difficult to catch up. I think by the time you get to Urgent Care that would be a little tougher since the relationships between the women and their loved ones have evolved a bit and grown more complex.

The medical material is fascinating. The author doesn't coddle the reader and explain every term, but the prose flows so well that regardless of this, I didn't feel lost. (I don't have the background to evaluate its accuracy, however.)

The personal drama felt a little more scattered than in Warning Signs and a little less focused, but that's a minor quibble. With four women dealing with love life and family issues, things get a bit hectic--it might have been better to serialize the stories a little more, even if that would be a tad less "realistic."

The suspense & thriller material is wonderfully handled, and definitely kept me guessing on the edge of my seat. Please note that there's some very dark and adult material in here, so don't pick up this book if you aren't willing to handle that! It deals with trauma of both sexual and non-sexual natures. This material isn't sensationalized, but it is necessary to the story and the characters.

In particular I enjoy the women of Angels of Mercy. They're each unique and unusual, with non-stereotypical quirks and foibles. Some of the men are equally interesting, although a few less so--not too unusual with this large a cast, however.


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