Rx Murder

by Nina Abbott, F. Paul Wilson

Overview

"Help! I...can't...breathe! He's... trying to... kill me!
Please! Oh, God! He's... killing me!"

Margery Harris's last words...gasped in a hoarse, rasping voice on the county's 9-1-1 line.

For Marge's doctor, they weren't merely the last words of a patient, they were a desperate cry for help from an old friend. But they're puzzling because Marge died from a fatal allergic reaction to peanuts. Was it possible...murder by peanut?

Her doctor, Noreen Marconi, MD, a 30-something family practitioner in a suburban town outside Baltimore, feels she owes it to Marge to get to the truth. A dozen years ago Norrie left town as a size twenty. After college, medical school, and residency, she's back as a size ten and she wants some answers. She enlists the help of Sheriff's Deputy Travis Lawton, her big crush as a teen, and their investigation leads them along a twisty-turny path to a totally unexpected conclusion. Also unexpected are the feelings that begin to spark between them as they work together.

In the middle of all this, her apartment floods and she has to move back into the old family home with her mother...a house that's now haunted by the ghost of her father.

Rx Murder is the first of a series blending romance, murder, mystery, and the paranormal.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162400974
Publisher:	Crossroad Press
Publication date:	10/26/2021
Series:	The Rx Mysteries , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	680 KB

About the Author

The Rx Mysteries series is written by F. Paul Wilson under the pseudonym Nina Abbott.

In 2003 Wilson was putting the finishing touches on his novel Crisscross. It was a very dark novel that pushed the anti-hero motif to the limit, making his series character, Repairman Jack, commit coldblooded first-degree murder and frame another killer for it. As he stepped away, he felt the need for an anodyne to all the darkness and violence.

At that point, he sat down and wrote a light, cozy mystery about a young female family doctor practicing in a small suburb of Baltimore. At that point he didn't feel it worked, so he set it aside. Something was missing.

Sixteen years later Paul retired from his medical practice just in time to go into lockdown for the COVID pandemic. With extra time on his hands, he pulled out his old cozy. He thought after all those years, maybe it would read better, but it still needed something. He added a ghost and voila! It all came together. He liked it so much he blasted off a sequel. (to be published in 2022)

Despite the paranormal aspect, this is by no means the kind of book Paul's readers expect from the author of The Keep and Midnight Mass and Sibs and such. The Rx novels are much lighter in tone and content. He decided on a pseudonym…one that began with an “A” because as a lifelong “W” he got tired of winding up on the bottom shelf all the time.