"Fun Diagnosis Murder tale"
It isn't every person who has one, let alone two, very
specialized skills but Dr. Mark Sloan, the chief of
Internal medicine at Community General Hospital, is one of
the rare ones. He is an excellent physician and he is
brilliant when it comes to solving homicides. Over the
years he has caught many murderers, much to the chagrin of
the LAPD, who finds him a personal embarrassment. To get him out of his hair, LAPD Police Chief John Masters
asks him to serve on a cold case task force never believing
for a minute that he, an ex-FBI profiler and a true crime
writer would find something detrimental to the department.
It seems that a serial killer has been operating in the
area for years, mimicking other serial killer signatures,
which makes Mark think that the murderer is close to the
investigations. While he is trying to figure out who that
person is, Mark also has to figure out who deliberately
killed one of his patients in surgery while making it look
like medical incompetence. The author of this book wrote many of the "Diagnosis
Murder" episodes as well as being the executive producer of
the show so it shouldn't come as any surprise that Lee
Goldberg is brilliant when it comes to characterizations.
Readers will believe the people that inhabit the pages of
this book actually exist and will like the ones who stay on
the right side of the law. This reviewer hopes Mr.
Goldberg writes more Diagnosis Murder novels, as they are
so much fun to read. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 10, 2003
SummaryDr. Mark Sloan is assigned to LAPD's "unsolved homicide"
files. As he reopens one case on the murder of a woman
whose killer currently sits on Death Row, Sloan learns that
the wrong man was charged. And that the real killer is
still at large...
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