A Sickening Storm-Dora Ellison Mystery Book 3, Crime Fiction Novels by Long Island author David E. Feldman

A Sickening Storm: Dora Ellison Mystery Book 3

A deeply troubling sequence of events is unfolding at the Beach City Medical Center, where patients are growing unaccountably, deathly, grotesquely ill and eventually dying, and doctors are baffled as to the cause, diagnosis, or treatment. First one. Then two. Then a handful.

Hospital CEO George Campbell believes someone is purposely infecting patients with the most deadly diseases in human history and hires nascent investigator Dora Ellison and her sidekick and love interest, the librarian Missy Winters, to investigate.

Will Dora and Missy solve this bewildering mystery before being infected themselves?

Dora Ellison is a tough woman who solves mysteries, finds love and doles out justice.

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“A nail biter from page one … A beautiful read…Just when I thought I knew what would happen next, or who the most likely suspect was, there was always a twist…a suspenseful tapestry…so hard to put down…never a lull in the forward motion of the story…Do we ever get such a pleasure with a prologue? ..takes us to the edge of our seat with just a sentence or two…intoxicating and leaves you feeling like you really are mad, like the character you’re forced to become…well done…you’re going to be clutching your stomach or maybe your rosary beads, shaking your head and wondering why the hell you picked this book up because now you have to finish it. You have to finish it because you can’t think about anything else, reading every word until the very, very end so you can stop thinking about this wonderfully written, well-crafted mystery.”

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By Diane Donovan, Senior Editor
Donovan’s Literary Services
California Bookwatch
Midwest Book Review

A Sickening Storm places investigator Dora Ellison and her companion and love, librarian Missy Winters, in a precarious position when a sudden string of deaths at a medical center baffle the physicians who should be experts.

That's because they are experts in medicine, but not murder.

Robin Cook has been the most visible proponent of medical thriller writing, but he faces a formidable challenger with David E. Feldman's latest story, because Dora Ellison is more than proficient at navigating stormy waters of illness, employing her special talent for problem-solving in unexpected ways.

An intriguing prologue cultivates a special observational voice that draws readers into the perp's vision: "How appropriate that during a worldwide pandemic, you are spreading your own brand of pandemic in the name of justice, in the name of redress. In the name of love." This is an especially interesting preface to the third-person story that opens in the first chapter with a review of Beach City, its medical center, and its residents.

Dora doesn't just operate in P.I. circles. She baby-sits, she dog-sits, and she interacts with children and adults even as she is drawn into the special dilemma of a medical center that faces ruin if the cause of its mysterious deaths from a variety of pathogens is not uncovered and resolved quickly.

Feldman's ability to draw together personal lives, ambitions, and conundrums makes for an especially realistic scenario in which Dora's life is explored and shaken as much as the political and medical world of her latest client.

The possibilities of this human-manipulated local epidemic are especially timely, given the world's experience with COVID, linking into emotional concerns in a special way that draws readers into an environment they may have only viewed from a safe distance pre-COVID.

The intrigue, the possibilities, the medical challenges, and the efforts of Dora and Missy to not just compliment traditional investigative processes, but top their best players make for a thoroughly engrossing story that operates on different levels of complexity.

The result is a gripping, tense mystery thriller that brings Dora and Missy's world to life, testing their courage and tenacity in a story highly recommended for libraries seeing special interest in medical mysteries.

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