House Call

Darden North M.D.
Ponder House Press (2005)
ISBN 0977112608
Reviewed by Ellen Hogan for Reader Views (5/06)

Doctor Cullen Gwinn and Nurse Taylor Richards are dead. Were their deaths connected? What did they have in common? Doctor Gwinn's death is ruled an accident, but Taylor Richards death is a homicide.

Cullen Gwinn founded the Montclair Center for Women's Medical and Surgical Services and was also on staff at Grace Community Hospital. At one time, Taylor was employed at the Center, but due to cut backs, she went to work at the Hospital in the maternity ward. That is the extent of their acquaintanceship.

After a particularly long day at work, Taylor goes home and decides to relax by having a bath. The next day she is found by her mother in the bloody bathtub. A week or so later Cullen accepts the invitation of the hospital administrator to go to his hunting lodge. While at the lodge, Cullen climbs up to the deer stand and falls to his death.

Abraham (Abe) Perry is a dangerous man. He thinks everyone is out to get him or his cousin Jimmy. Jimmy tells him how they were invited to the hunting lodge by the hospital administrator, and that he came on to him. Abe sets a trap, but instead of killing the administrator he kills Cullen. At the end the reader finds out that he also killed Taylor.

There is a lot going on in this book, but the author gets across what he sets out to. Both Dr. Gwinn and Nurse Richards are killed by the same man for different reasons. The reader learns a lot about hospital politics in this medical thriller. Dr. North made the book easy to read by not using long medical terms, but language a lay person could understand.

“House Call” is very well written and an enjoyable book. It is for anyone who likes medical thrillers.

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