On My Radar (Fiction Edition)

As regular readers (if there are any) of this blog know, I typically promote only non-fiction books.  Today I am making an exception for personal reasons.  A few years back I was the book manager for a beloved local bookstore and had the responsibility of buying books by local authors to include in our inventory.  One such book was Rupture (now available in paperback),  by A. Scott Pearson, a surgeon here in Nashville. Dr. Pearson was very personable and easy to work with and it was a pleasure to be able to be part of his first book experience. One of my friends, author J.T. Ellison praised Rupture, saying that it was John Grisham for medical mysteries.  So, breaking with tradition, here is the information for Dr. Pearson's newest novel:


Public Anatomy
by A. Scott Pearson
Oceanview Publishing
Hardcover

From the publisher website:

The second novel by surgeon A. Scott Pearson, Public Anatomy, is an intense, Memphis-based medical thriller featuring protagonist Eli Branch.  While recovering from a career-threatening injury, Branch is pulled into the turbulent world of Dr. Liza French, a colleague he hasn’t seen in ten years.  Liza uses their past to lure Eli into a highly-publicized debacle in a Memphis hospital that has put her own career in jeopardy.   

But when the murder of medical personnel at Gates Memorial appears related to Liza’s surgical complication, Eli finds that more lives are at imminent risk. 

Eli discovers clues from the victims that match anatomical art found at the crime scenes, a connection that leads him to the manuscript of a sixteenth century anatomist whose methods of dissection are over four centuries old—but are being reenacted in the present. 

Aided by the expertise of forensic pathologist, Dr. Meg Daily, Eli uncovers a pattern to the escalating deaths and the search begins for a killer the media and the city come to know as The Organist. 

A. Scott Pearson is a surgeon in Nashville, Tennessee.  For the past decade, he has been a member of the surgical faculty at Vanderbilt University, where he combines research with the clinical practice of surgery and teaches on the importance of the patient’s narrative in medicine.  Pearson’s debut novel, Rupture,  won top honors in the new fiction category of the National Indie Excellence 2010 Awards.

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Excerpt from Public Anatomy on Scribd

Public Anatomy on Chapter16.org