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Hot Lights, Cold Steel (Dub Walker Series)
by D. P. Lyle
Hardcover : 448 pages
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Introduction
Forensic criminalist Dub Walker is once again called upon when an old friend enlists his help in finding her 19-year-old daughter. When the bodies of two young women show up in a shallow grave, one of whom is the daughter, Dub is back to work and hard at it. Soon other bodies start turning up in similar graves, and each victim has undergone multiple, highly technical surgical procedures requiring extremely sophisticated equipment. Who would have access to such state-of-the-art instruments and the skill to perform the complex surgeries? The ensuing trail of terror and bodies that leads Dub to Talbert Biomedical?a surgical instrument manufacturing company operated by a business tycoon and a surgeon?is a horrifying breech of ethics and human decency. It's too gruesome to even contemplate what was done to the victims before they died. To catch a killer, Dub has to put himself in their place.
Excerpt
This was going to be totally cool. Dead bodies. Carmelita had never seen one, much less two. Would they be gross? Smell bad? She’d heard that they smelled like rotting eggs. What if she threw up? How embarrassing. Still, she’d have a great story to tell. And a ring to show off. ...
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Notes From the Author to the Bookclub
Note from author D.P. Lyle: I grew up in the South where storytelling is a tradition. In fact, if you can’t tell a story they won’t feed you. Even simple dinner table stories have plots, subplots, settings, themes, and dialogue, the things that make a good yarn. For the past 30 years I have practiced medicine in the field of cardiology. It has been a time of incredible technological progress. Medical technology and its uses and abuses have always been of interest to me and it is this that led to the writing of Hot Lights, Cold Steel. Every story begins with a What If? What if this happened? What if that person was placed in this situation? What would this character do to resolve this mystery? For Hot Lights, Cold Steel the What If? would be: What if a forensic and criminal behavior expert is confronted with a series of murders that appeared to have been perpetrated by a killer with not only medical expertise but also the latest technology? These are the questions that Dub Walker, in this the second novel in this medical thriller series, must unravel. I hope readers will find Dub’s adventures fun, educational, and insomnia-provoking.Book Club Recommendations
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