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You have cancer.You've been blasted and wasted with chemotherapy, along with every other poison the doctors could find to kill malignant cells.Most days you're more dead than alive.Tomorrow you will be infused with your own, treated bone marrow - frozen, stored, and safe in one of Cal, ifornia's most prestigious hospitals.Then comes the note: "We have yur marrow...pay or di

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 fianc 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?

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. Fianc 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.

A flu epidemic slams San Francisco, pushing medical facilities for beyond normal limits. The chaos masks deadly patient blood-letting by a sociopathic phlebotomist. RN Gina Mazzio, distracted by a breakup with her fianc , and into a possible new romance, misreads a stalking that results in the murder of a nurse friend. Hot on the trail of the killer, and seeking a reason for unanticipated patient deaths, she becomes the prime target of the phlebotomist stalker.

Gina Mazzio, RN, and fianc Harry Lucke are on the brink of getting married when a childhood friend relocates from the Bronx to San Francisco. Within days, Gina's nurse friend is relating difficult-to-believe horror stories about her new employer, a cardiologist whom she suspects is involved in illicit and deadly medical practices. Gina soon discovers the stories are true-the doctor is not only actingin an unethical manner, he may also be complicit in two or three hideousmurders. That knowledge quickly makes her the new target of the doctor ...and a vicious hit man, who is determined to hunt her down and kill her.

Passion, Jealousy, Greed, Love ... and RoboticsBack from an idyllic beach wedding and honeymoon on romantic Kauai, Gina and Harry have barely unpacked when Ridgewood Hospital sends them off on an intriguing assignment to learn about and report on surgical robotics at a Santa Cruz area hospital.Intrigue turns to fear as they're plunged into the midst of a deadly clash between hands-on-medicine traditionalists and those eager to dive headlong into the futurist whirlpool of robotics.The newlyweds are harassed, threatened, and kidnapped as a result of their efforts to discover who is hacking the robotic units and causing bloody mayhem in the surgery suites.Gina and Harry eventually report back to Ridgewood that robots are not only accurate, fast, and efficient, they can also be used to commit murder. Advance praise for BONE SLICE: "A terrific read The pages fly in a provocative look at modern medicine. Gina Mazzio and Harry Lucke are characters worth rooting for. Bette and J.J. Lamb write superb dialogue. Plan to find a comfortable chair and stay up late. Highly recommended." - Sheldon Siegel, New York Times best-selling author of Special Circumstances. "A sexy and creepy contemporary medical thriller about modern technology. This story is so realistic that the horror could someday become a reality at a hospital near you." -Peter Heinlein, MD

Seven days That's the deadline to quash a top-secret, political-corporate legislative package that would legalize killing indigent terminally ill hospital patients ... not through benign assisted suicide ... but by aggressive, selective euthanasia. This in the name of political party control, a balanced federal budget, and greater corporate profits. What the greedy powerbrokers don't anticipate is an in-your-face, seniors' advocacy group that gets wind of the secret legislative plot and reacts aggressively.The Coalition of Older & Retired Persons (CORPS) hires Ted Yost-semi-retired investigative journalist-to expose the scurrilous behind-the-scenes manipulations.Yost barely gets started when his client's office is blown up, his California home is vandalized, his wife is kidnapped, and someone tries to kill him.

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 disappointLong-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 AngelPraise 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 & BONE is a chilling, gripping thriller by a talented writing couple."-Marcia Muller & 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 & BONE, BONE PIT, BONE OF CONTENTION, BONE DUST, BONE CRACK, and BONE SLICE.