First let me say that Alzheimers disease is a very hard illness to deal with. My husband and I dealt with this for 5+ years when his aunt was afflicted with this heartbreaking disease. Watching a very intelligent grade school teacher over the years go from a very active retired woman to a wraith lying in the fetal position in her last days. A cure for this dreaded disease would be a godsend for patients and families who deal with this.

Terminal Care is a story about an Alzheimers wing (East Annex) of Deaconess Hospital that has started a new trial to administer "NAF"—an experimental and highly promising treatment for Alzheimer's disease where all patients on the wing are administered this experimental drug. Some get a placebo and some get the actual drug. No one is supposed to know who is getting what. Dr.Phil Pescoe, ER doctor, has been called to the wing to assist in a Code Blue for a patient that has collapsed. He is not able to save this patient but a death on a unit such as the East Annex is not really that unusual as patients with Alzheimers do die periodically, usually from a heart attack or pneumonia. But Dr.Pescoe becomes concerned when the death count starts rising and most of the patients that died have succumbed to heart attacks.

Dr.Pescoe is called into a QA meeting in regards to this particular Code Blue. At the time of the code Dr.Pescoe had an intern assist him with compressions on the patient thinking that instead of the intern just watching he would teach him as they went along. According to the QA committee, valuable time was wasted doing this teaching. Dr.Pescoe was suspended without pay.In the meantime the death count keeps rising on East Annex and Dr.Pescoe starts doing an informal investigation on his own because things just do not add up. He meets Dr.Clara Wong who is a member on the QA committee who suspended him. This is when the story really takes off and gets suspenseful. This story to me is very much like a Robin Cook or a Michael Palmer medical mystery. A very fast paced story with all the prerequisites for a great novel, death, greed, money and love and it sweeps the reader right along. I look forward to more medical mysteries or a sequel by Christopher Stookey. ( )

As a lover of crime and medical TV dramas like CSI, Law and Order, ER and House, I love to read about them too. There's something about those thrills of suspense that fascinate me. In fact, reading the dramas is my new love over watching them on TV. I find that an author who creates wonderful dramas about medicine (especially since I'm a Pharmacy Technician) and crime, really know how to make it come to live, so much more so than any TV program can. Christopher Stookey is a doctor and new author, and really puts that perspective into show, with his new debut novel, Terminal Care. While this story is not a Christian based story, with some mild use of language, it is still a thrilling, captivating suspense novel that will leave you dying for more!

Phil Pescoe and Carol Wong are the main characters in this awesome new novel, and, with deeply chiseled personalities, the bring this medical mystery to life. The reader will get sucked into the whirl wind and fast paced drama of Deaconness Hospital. You'll feel apart of the adrenaline rushing blood pumping medical team, as they work to find out what's causing Alzheimer's patients to code. Is it just happenstance or is a pharmaceutical company to blame? The mystery mixes with romances in this new page turning debut.

This 4 star novel of suspense is awesome medicine for the medical suspense loving soul. Blended with that bit of romance, it's the perfect read for almost any genre lover. I definitely recommend this debut novel and will hoping for more from this awesome author turned author!

*This book was provided for review by the author and PUYB Promotions* ( )