Book Review: Fatal Trauma {LitFuse Blog Tour}

About the book:
Fatal Trauma (Abingdon Press, May 2015)

A gunman who has nothing to lose faces a doctor who could lose it all to prove his innocence.

When Dr. Mark Baker and Nurse Kelly Atkinson are held at the mercy of a dangerous gunman, the lives of every emergency room patient are at stake. At the end of the evening three men are dead. One of them is a police officer who couldn't be saved despite Mark's best efforts. The other two are members of the feared Zeta drug cartel.

Though the standoff is over, the killing is not, because when the drug cartel loses its members, revenge is not far behind. Facing an adversary whose desires are dark and efforts are ruthless, Mark finds himself under suspicion as a killer, yet still a potential victim. When he turns to his high school sweetheart, attorney Gwen Woodruff, for help, Kelly helplessly looks on, as she hides her own feelings for the good doctor.

At the height of the conflict, three questions remain: Who is the shooter? Who will the next victim be? And can Mark prove his innocence before the gun turns on him?

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About the author:

A retired physician, Dr. Richard Mabry is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels of medical suspense. His previous works have been finalists for the Carol Award and Romantic Times Reader's Choice Award, and have won the Selah Award. He is a past Vice-President of American Christian Fiction Writers and a member of the International Thriller Writers. He and his wife live in North Texas.


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My thoughts:
Another good book by Mabry! If you are interested in medical mystery, some 'romance', and a Christian backdrop, then I really think you'll like the book. This is the third book by Mabry I've read and I enjoyed it as much as the other two. You can read my reviews of Stress Test and Critical Condition.

You won't get spoilers here in my review but I'll say that once I started reading it was difficult to put the book down. There are a lot of cliche phrases and scenes but that's okay in my opinion because of the way Mabry writes his passion: the medical field. He does well with the mystery and fine with the 'romance' as well. Speaking of romance, fortunately for me, there isn't a heavy dose in this book. It *is* there and we know without a doubt there are some intimate relationships going on but it's not overdone. Also, even though I am a Christian, I find it poor writing for the author to try to cram Christ into the book artificially. I've never felt that with Mabry's writing. It's as it goes in life, I think.

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