Deadfall
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On the best day of Dr. Rita Davenports life, she jumps in front of a speeding London Underground train.The police think suicide.Dr. Davenports team in Portland, Oregon thinks otherwise.On the day she died, Dr. Davenport presented a paper highlighting a medical breakthrough that would change the treatment of Alzheimers. The breakthrough would undercut the billion-dollar Big Pharma business model, taking money from the grant writers, researchers, doctors and huge pharmaceutical companies who have made their lifes work developing drugs that dont work.To Dr. Davenports team, that is motive for murder.They turn to Detective Kate Sawyer, one of their own-a participant in their study who is battling her own genetic form of Alzheimers. With her lover, Detective Beck Hudson; Dr. Davenports right-hand man, Thea Janeway; and Theas romantic nemesis and respected denizen of the Dark Web, Carter Livingston, Kate gets pulled deeper and deeper into the secret places where those on the fringes of synthetic biology ply their trade...for good and for ill.The killer threatens to kill another of Dr. Davenports study participants unless Kate backs off...and hell keep killing until she stops.With lives in the balance, Kate cant stop...not until the last man falls.But who will be next?AN INTERVIEW WITH DEBORAH COONTSAfter making a name for yourself in another genre, why switch genres now? My first series featuring Lucky OToole is a light, romantic mystery series. At the time, my life was pretty dark, so I enjoyed the laugh-out-loud snark of Lucky and her pals.But, now life is a bit brighter and I find the darker side, my love of thrillers calling to me. Ive always loved thrillers, especially psychological thrillers, medical thrillers, women in jeopardy chase books, that sort of thing. Fast-paced storylines with deep, well-rounded characters-I wanted to add my name to the list of writers who have delved deep into these waters.Youre a lawyer, so why the medical tie-in? Ive al
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