It's RN Gina Mazzio's wedding eve. As she takes the week's final Ob/Gyn telephone advice call, a deadly serious voice says, "She's all cut up." The police, the hospital administrator, and even her fiance insist it was a crank call, some sicko. Gina doesn't buy it. She pursues the source of the call, and a second one to her home, linking the caller to a series of nurse disappearances. Instead of a wedding and honeymoon, Gina is drawn into the illicit and dangerous trade in human body parts.

Sin & Bone

Literature & Fiction

Lamb, Bette Golden

Lamb, J.J.

Genre Fiction

Two Black Sheep

RN Gina Mazzio is not a wimp, not by any means, but after nearly being murdered twice in the recent past, she needs a time out. Needs to get away from San Francisco and Ridgewood Hospital. In this third Gina Mazzio, RN series of medical thrillers, Gina and fiancé Harry Lucke sign up for a Travel Nurse assignment at a small Nevada treatment facility for Alzheimer's patients, somewhere in the middle of nowhere. On their first day, driving down a long, creepy private road, ominous sentry-like boulders rise up to block out the sun. When they finally arrive, Gina's "warning" eye starts to twitch when she sees iron bars across all the second-story windows. The immediate question is: What kind of place is this, what are they really getting into?

Bone Pit (Gina Mazzio, RN)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Two Black Sheep Publications

Murder, mayhem, medicine, and Mazzio.That's the thread that stitches together each of the Gina Mazzio, RN medical thrillers, including the fourth in the series, BONE OF CONTENTION.RN Gina Mazzio returns to San Francisco’s Ridgewood Hospital after a near-death experience in Nevada’s desolate gold country.On her first day in the Ob/Gyn Women’s Health Clinic, a co-worker suffers a mystifying post-abortion death due to sepsis.Two days later, the same thing happens to a clinic patient.Gina thinks it’s an inside job, but gets no support for her theory. Convinced she’s right, she risks everything to dig into the who and why of the deaths. She wants to know if someone is deliberately causing clinic patients to suffer horrible deaths. Fiancé Harry Lucke, who was with Gina in Nevada, is worried about her and postpones taking another travel nurse assignment. Instead, he signs on as an on-call ICU nurse at Ridgewood.To Gina’s delight, and distress, her younger brother, Vinnie, shows up, back from his second tour of duty in the Middle East. He’s received a medial discharge and is deeply depressed and suicidal.Vinnie brings news that Gina’s ex-husband, Dominick, is out of prison and still enraged that she helped put him away for three years -- for almost killing her. Word is that he broke parole and is on his way from New York to San Francisco.Gina sticks with her daring and danger-filled investigation. Her efforts bring her closer and closer to solving the sepsis deaths, but also make her the target of anti-abortion fanatics.As she closes in on the murderer, her ex-spouse arrives in San Francisco, hell-bent on killing her. Gina is faced with having to outmaneuver Dominick while racing to expose the murderer before either can trap and kill her.

Bone of Contention (Gina Mazzio RN Medical Series)

The Organ Harvesters Book II

“Elegant prose at the hand of an experienced story-teller.” —Rhys Bowen, New York Times best-selling author of the Royal Spyness and Molly Murphy Mysteries as well as the #1 Kindle bestsellers "In Farleigh Field" and "The Tuscan Child."
THE RUSSIAN GIRL is based on the true story of a woman who escapes from a high security nursing home during the hottest day of the year. The thermometer reads 115 degrees and she is dehydrated, lost, slogging through the burning sands of a New Mexico desert, constantly craving an ice cold Coke.
Her delirium reveals a harrowing story of a young immigrant Russian girl forced to come to America in the early 1900s. Her turbulent life is filled with upheaval, lost love, and activism in a crushing, brutal 20th century journey. 
Minna Goldmich’s mind wanders, remembering her childhood as a peasant girl in Russia—the youngest in a line of Jewish healers. Her family only survived being butchered by marauding Cossacks because of her and her mother’s unique ability to heal cows.
The twelve-year-old Russian girl’s life is forever changed when she is almost raped. While defending herself, she accidentally kills her Jew-hating attacker and is forced to flee from the only life she’s ever known. 
Alone and traumatized, her mother sends her to America to live. There, she not only joins the great melting pot of people from all over the world, she meets the love of her life and becomes a visiting nurse on the streets of Harlem. But her chaotic life is always overtaken by violent historical events that continue to reshape not only her life, but the world around her.
REVIEWS
“Intense, harrowing and oh so real, Bette Lamb's family history is brought vividly to life in elegant prose at the hand of an experienced story-teller.” —Rhys Bowen, New York Times best-selling author of the Royal Spyness and Molly Murphy Mysteries as well as the #1 Kindle bestsellers "In Farleigh Field" and "The Tuscan Child."
“A sweeping, soaring saga of history, family, the magic of healing, and the mysteries of love, all wrapped up in a page-turning thriller ranging from the Russian Revolution to the 1980s. Fair warning: you won't be able to stop reading 'The Russian Girl'!”—Kelli Stanley, author of "City Of Sharks"
"The history of a turbulent century across two continents is set inside an exquisite depiction of the end of one small life. And the brutal, sometimes harrowing, realities of that life are touched by magic in a way that feels utterly believable and satisfying. The Russian Girl combines a sharp eye, a big heart, and an irresistible page-turner of a story. Thoroughly recommended." —Catriona McPherson, bestselling and multi-award-winning author of the Dandy Gilver series and "Go To My Grave"
"A beautiful, very thoughtful piece of writing, from the heart." —Rita Lakin, author of "The Only Woman In The Room"
FROM THE AUTHOR:
I am an RN, and yes, an ex-Bronxite. So listening to me talk (hands flying) can be a funny experience. I love to write crime novels and multi-task because I'm also an artist that plays with clay in my studio in my little home in the West (Marin County, CA.). My sculptures and other artistic creations appear in many juried national and local exhibitions, and I sell my work through galleries, associations, and retail stores.
Being an RN is a huge clue as to why I like to write gritty medical thrillers with my husband J. J. Lamb.

The Russian Girl

World Literature

Two Black Sheep Productions

BONE POINTGINA MAZZIO RN MEDICAL THRILLER SERIESVeterans are being murdered.This is #8 in the fast-paced Gina Mazzio RN medical thriller seriesBONE POINTwill not disappoint
Long-time fans will rejoice—now we know love does conquer all. Gina is pregnant—this after doctors said it would never happen. 
But five months into her high-risk pregnancy, Gina's veteran brother, who suffers from PTSD, vanishes.
Why has he abandoned everyone and everything?
Although under bed-rest orders, Gina takes off to find him.
What she discovers is that Vinnie's been swallowed up in a derelict, soon-to-close VA psychiatric hospital with a corrupt administration involved in greed, malevolence, and murder.
Vinnie could be the next to die.
Thisaction-packed, shocking, take-no-prisoners tale of medical suspenseis definitely not for the faint-hearted. But fans of the morehard-boiled medical thrillers(and also of Patricia Cornwell) will eat it up; as will lovers of strong women detectives, hospital mysteries, and all medical fiction, especially fans of Tess Gerritsen.Advance praise forBONE POINT:"The Lambs are real masters of taut action and edge-of-the-seat suspense. Bone Point is another outstanding entry in this exciting series of medical thrillers."
 —Margaret Lucke, author of Snow Angel
Praise for the previous Gina Mazzio Books: "Deftly plotted and artfully executed, BONE PIT is a compelling read that provides a shocking look at the world of contemporary medicine and Big Pharma."
—Sheldon Siegel, New York Times best-selling author
"SIN &amp; BONE is a chilling, gripping thriller by a talented writing couple."
—Marcia Muller &amp; Bill Pronzini, MWA Grand Masters
"BONE DRY ... a medical thriller not for the squeamish."
—Publishers Weekly 
From The Authors:
Writing about RN Gina Mazzio and her boyfriend, RN Harry Lucke, has been a fun experience. It's also a privilege to tell about characters who dedicate their lives to helping others. Many of the people our protagonists work with (as in real life) spend each and every day, perhaps not with murder, but certainly in pain, distress, and danger. We hope most of our books bring the positive recognition that nurses deserve.
BETTE GOLDEN LAMB, a registered nurse, has developed parallel careers as a painter, sculptor, and ceramist. Her art works can be found in a number of galleries and private collections. In addition to co-authored books with J. J. , she has had three other books published: THE ORGAN HARVESTERS and THE ORGAN HARVESTERS BOOK II and THE RUSSIAN GIRL.
J. J. LAMBis a career writer - journalism, short stories, and novels. In addition to fiction co-authored with Bette, he is the creator of the Zachariah Tobias Rolfe III private eye series, the latest of which, NO PAT HANDS, was nominated for a Shamus Award.
 The LAMBS live in Northern California and are members of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime.
BONE POINTis the eighth book in the Gina Mazzio RN medical thriller series, which includesBONE DRY, SIN &amp; BONE, BONE PIT, BONE OF CONTENTION, BONE DUST, BONE CRACK, and BONE SLICE.

Bone Point (Gina Mazzio RN Medical Thrillers)

Winner! The 2014 Stellar Sci-fi Contest For Science Fiction Dystopian Novel. The war of 2020 was quite bloodless, but its aftermath was plenty grisly. The victor? A monster corporation now wasting the planet's resources with abandon - but controlling the people with precision. Using industrial-scale organ harvesting. Using wholesale euthanasia. Using squadrons of armed guards whose bulletproof visors hide any expression in their eyes. We're trapped, Zoe thought. Trapped on a dying planet. Wasn't there a time when we didn't live under massive domes with scrubbed air piped in and rising temperatures neutralized? That time is a blurry memory to me, almost gone. Gone, like the glaciers. Like the forests and their oxygen-breathing trees. And now a deadly virus is spreading fast. Zoe's beloved husband has already been carried off by it. At that, the corporation forced their young daughter Laya into an orphanage. The corporation is intent on eradicating the virus by liquidating everyone infected. Now Zoe herself has fallen ill. More than half of her dwindling energy is spent trying to hide that fact. She remembered her promise to Laya, to be together again. She rested her forehead against the mirror and whispered to her ghostly fading self - hissed to herself, fierce in refusal! "You can't die now. You just can't!" In this heartless technocratic dystopian future, normal emotions constitute treason. Acting on them is a capital crime. Can a mother's passion defy this totalitarian system? Will a promised cure arrive in time to save Zoe - and can she get her hands on it? And if she regains her health, is there a chance she can ever find freedom...and even new love? The Organ Harvesters reveals a future that will make your skin crawl - and a human struggle to live free that will leave you breathless and inspired. Bette Golden Lamb, author of The Organ Harvesters, a Sci Fi Dystopian Fantasy. Lamb is a registered nurse, three-dimensional artist, and a writer specializing in Sci Fi Fantasy. Her art works have appeared in numerous national shows and are mostly held in private collections. She lives with her husband, J.J., in Northern California, but was raised in the Bronx, which is probably why she likes to write dark and gritty dystopian futures.

The Organ Harvesters

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Farther Books

Seven days! That's the deadline to stop a political-corporate scheme to legally murder vulnerable patients.   Ted Yost, a semi-retired journalist, barely starts an investigation into a plot to legalize selective euthanasia when his client's office is blown up, his home is ransacked, his wife is kidnapped, and there's an attempt on his life. What he doesn't know: the conspirators include the nation's largestfor-profit healthcare corporation, a powerful D.C. lobbyist, and the White House. Can Ted stop a killing vote by Congress?

The Killing Vote

Champlain Avenue Books, Incorporated

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