Fallen
by Leslie Tentler
Publisher: Left Field Press
Pages: 396
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Format: Paperback/Kindle
by Leslie Tentler
Publisher: Left Field Press
Pages: 396
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Format: Paperback/Kindle
Purchase at: Amazon
“If it wasn’t an armed robbery, it was a hit. An
execution.”
Amid a sultry Atlanta summer, someone
is targeting police…
The investigation becomes
personal for APD Detective Ryan Winter when a colleague and friend is shot
dead, the second victim in just weeks. But even as he finds himself being drawn
into the tense hunt for a serial cop killer, he is forced to re-examine his own
shattering personal tragedy.
An ER physician at Atlanta ’s busy Mercy Hospital ,
Dr. Lydia Costa is no stranger to suffering. Still, the recent police slayings
reopen barely healed wounds—and bring her face-to-face with her ex-husband,
Ryan Winter.
As the body count rises
and paranoia tightens its grip on the police force, Lydia and Ryan are pulled together
by circumstances and fate…causing old passions to reignite despite their
painful shared past. But as Ryan moves closer to discovering the killer’s
identity, someone is watching, placing both him and Lydia in mortal danger.
Book Excerpt:
“GSW, two minutes out!” Jamaal Reeves made the booming announcement from behind the ER admittance desk at Mercy Hospital. His words put medical personnel on alert, including Dr. Lydia Costa, who stood in the jaundiced glow of the light box, reviewing chest films for an eighty-two-year-old with suspected pneumonia.
“It’s a ten-double-zero,
people,” he added, using police code that over time had slipped into the level
one trauma center’s vernacular.
Officer
down.
A momentary hush fell over the
staff before the beehive of activity resumed, leaving only Lydia frozen.
Gunshot wounds were always nasty injuries, but it was the ten-double-zero that
caused anxiety to pool in her stomach. There were hundreds of police inside the
city, she reminded herself. Still, leaving the X-ray hanging, she shouldered
her way through the scrubs-clad crowd. Reaching Jamaal’s desk, she asked, “What
else do you know about the incoming?”
He slurped from a
Varsity cup. “Multiple bullets to the chest and abdomen, intubated by
paramedics on scene—”
“Do you have a
name? A precinct?”
“What? Uh,
uh—didn’t ask.” Jamaal shrugged, his eyes returning to the stack of paperwork
in front of him, information forms for the three dozen or so coughing, vomiting
or otherwise miserable-looking people who waited in rows of vinyl-covered
chairs for treatment.
“Plainclothes, though,” he
murmured as an afterthought, scribbling directives onto one of the forms.
“Get trauma room three set up,”
she ordered, raising her voice to be heard above the din. “We’re going to need
an echocardiogram. Have a crash cart and thoracotomy set ready.”
All the while, a mantra
repeated inside her head. It was more like a prayer, if she believed in such
things. She used to, but didn’t anymore.
Please
don’t let it be him.
About the Author:
Leslie
Tentler is best known as the author of the Chasing Evil Trilogy (MIDNIGHT CALLER, MIDNIGHT FEAR and EDGE OF MIDNIGHT ). She was named as a finalist for Best
First Novel at ThrillerFest 2012 for Midnight Caller, and as a finalist in the
2013 Daphne du Maurier Awards for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense for Edge
of Midnight. She is also the recipient of the prestigious Maggie Award of
Excellence. Her newest romantic suspense novel is titled FALLEN.
Leslie
is a member of Romance Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, The
Authors Guild and Novelists, Inc. A native of East
Tennessee , she currently resides in Atlanta .
Her latest book is the romantic
suspense, Fallen.
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Oooh - the excitement mounts - can't wait for this one :D
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