Blurb:
The
ultrawealthy families of Chouteau Forest may look down on a woman like death
investigator Angela Richman, but they also rely on her. When a horrific car
crash kills a Forest teenager, Angela is among the first on the scene. Her
investigation is hardly underway, however, when she suffers a series of
crippling strokes. Misdiagnosed by the resident neurologist, Dr. Gravois, and
mended by gauche yet brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Jeb Travis Tritt, Angela faces
a harrowing recovery.
It’s a
drug-addled, hallucinating Angela who learns that Dr. Gravois has been
murdered…and the chief suspect is the surgeon who saved her life. Angela
doesn’t believe it, but can she trust her instincts? Her brain trauma brings
doubts that she’ll ever recover her investigative skills. But she’s determined
to save Dr. Tritt from a death-row sentence—even if her progress is thwarted at
every turn by a powerful and insular community poised to protect its own.
About the Author:
Elaine
Viets has written twenty-nine mysteries in three series: the bestselling
Dead-End Job series with South Florida PI Helen Hawthorne, the cozy Josie
Marcus Mystery Shopper mysteries, and the dark Francesca Vierling mysteries.
With the Angela Richman Death Investigator series, Elaine returns to her
hardboiled roots and uses her experience as a stroke survivor and her studies
at the Medicolegal Death Investigators Training Course at St. Louis University.
Elaine is director at large for the Mystery Writers of America. She's a
frequent contributor to Alfred
Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and anthologies edited by Charlaine
Harris and Lawrence Block. Elaine won the Anthony, Agatha and Lefty Awards.
Review:
If
you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to have a stroke, you need to read Brain Storm. And if you enjoy a good
mystery, you need to read Brain Storm.
Angela Richman is a death investigator. She works for the coroner, going out to
the scenes of various deaths around Chouteau Forest, a wealthy, fictitious county
near St. Louis, and investigating the bodies. But in the midst of investigating
a horrible auto accident involving drugs, alcohol, and texting while driving,
Angela suffers a series of strokes.
The
first are warnings, but Dr. Gravois, the affluent, well-liked, and totally
incompetent head of neurology at the local hospital, misdiagnoses her headaches
as a possible tumor and sends her home, telling her to call and make an
appointment for a PET scan in the near future. He tells her she’s “too young
and healthy to have a stroke.” Outsider, Dr. Jeb Travis Tritt saves Angela’s
life, but when Gravois is poisoned, Tritt is blamed. Angela doesn’t think the
man who saved her life is guilty, but she’s still recovering from her stroke. Even
though she was there when Gravois died, how can she help clear him when she was
a witness, and wasn’t allowed to investigate?
It
was fascinating going inside the mind of a person having a stroke and then
recovering from it. And to weave that into a mystery was masterful writing. The
characters were all very real. Ya
gotta read Brain Storm! Brava, Ms.
Viets.
Author Website: http://elaineviets.com/
Warnings: Descriptions
of Deceased Bodies
Length: 322 Pages
Prices:
Print: $9.99
Digital: $4.99
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