Summary
A Prescription to Kill is a spellbinding mystery/thriller that explores the indistinct, darker edges of physician-assisted suicide. Carrie Williams, a brilliant, young medical resident, is assigned to a small town hospital in northern Oregon, the only state in the Union where physician-assisted suicide is legal. She’s tall, a little over six feet, confident in her medical abilities, and can be strikingly beautiful when she wants to be. But when a sophisticated-looking physician asks for her help with an assisted suicide, initial curiosity and intrigue are replaced by horror as she realizes that he’s not who he says he is, and that she’s been used as a tool for murder. Carrie is stripped of her hospital privileges, threatened with the loss of her medical license, and becomes a person of interest in a homicide investigation. Then when she finds her apartment ransacked and her friend murdered she realizes that her life is in danger and that she could be next on the killer’s list. She decides to disappear. Jon Kirk, an investigative reporter for the Seattle Times, is sent down to Oregon to investigate. A body is discovered in a reservoir, unconventional medical practices are revealed, and unseen forces propel Jon and Carrie forward as their lives intertwine and the story races inexorably on toward its heart-stopping conclusion. A Prescription to Kill is a masterful novel from the Seattle Times bestselling author of Cube 6. Lock the doors and settle into your favorite chair, because it’s the kind of nail- biting, page-turner that will keep you up all night.
About the Author
Thomas W. Griffin was born in Omaha, Nebraska. A former U.S. Army Green Beret, professional musician, university professor, cancer center director, medical society president, and magazine editor, he is the author of two novels and over two hundred scientific publications in the fields of cancer research and medicine. A consultant to the National Institutes of Health, he was awarded a gold medal for his detective work and research into the causes and treatment of malignant disease. Griffin is a pilot, a fly fisherman, a scuba diver, and an avid collector of primitive art from Melanesia. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington, and Sun Valley, Idaho
