Bone Dry by Bette Golden Lamb & J. J. Lamb

Meet Nurse Gina Mazzio: She’s feisty, determined, tenacious, and a ballsy Italian ex-Bronxite. She might remind you a bit of Sandra Bullock when Sandra’s in FBI mode, because you know how scary nurses can be; and how compassionate. Gina’s patients are in danger. And everyone at her fancy San Francisco hospital is blowing it off like everything’s normal.

Carl Chapman, a young man with an excellent prognosis, has already died–and another patient’s acting weird and desperate; a third, a teen-ager, has actually run away.
Gina soon finds out her patients are being subjected to a diabolical form of blackmail after being blasted with chemotherapy and every other toxic poison available to save their lives. Most days they’re so run down they’re more dead than alive. But there’s one chance for survival—each will be infused with his or her own treated bone marrow – frozen, secure in the hospital’s storage vaults.

And then comes the note: “We have your marrow…pay $50,000 or die now!”

Before it’s over, Gina will be stalked, threatened, and nearly killed. This is an action-packed, shocking, take-no-prisoners tale of medical suspense, definitely not for the faint-hearted.

Category: Thrillers – Medical

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.