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

2014 SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE FROM PRIVATE EYE WRITERS OF AMERICA (PWA). When a Northern California Indian tribe’s plan to create an oceanfront casino-resort is stymied by murder, a tribal leader seeks help from a friend, Las Vegas-based private investigator Zachariah Tobias Rolfe III, who specializes in solving gaming-related crimes … on either side of the tables. Rolfe immediately becomes embroiled with two murders, attempts on his life, a dishonest Washington lobbyist, a number of underhanded locals, and a pair of beautiful women before solving the case. The book further contrasts the devastating experience of a single Northern California Native American tribe, from its first conflict with the white man in 1776, to its heroic return from near extinction through casino ownership. Past or present, it’s the land; it’s always been about the land.

No Pat Hands (Zach Rolfe PI)

Mystery

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)

Twenty-three tales of crime and punishment told by current and rising stars of the mystery world.

Black Coffee

Buck, Craig Faustus

MacRae, Andrew

Gwin, Kenneth

Chandos, Michael

Bull, Warren

Denton, Peter H.

Lucas, JoAnne

Gough, Karen

Darkhouse Books

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)

Two Black Sheep Productions

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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