God's Disciple
If you're a nurse you will relate, if you are a patient be afraid, be very afraid.
This nursing thriller will have you on the edge of your seat
New Cover: 362 pages
Old May looked up at the nurse with something like trepidation.
There was an expression in those pale blue eyes looking down at her, which frightened her. They belied the nurse’s harmless words. There was a hint of hidden menace, a vague premonition of evil waiting to be unleased lurking behind those eyes…..
When Lucy O’Brien, a newly graduated nurse starts work at the Lexton Court Nursing home, little does she realize the terror that lurks within. At first she suspects patient abuse, but soon realizes it is much worse than that. Patients are being killed. Enlisting the aid of Eliza Harris, a mentally spry but physically debilitated resident of the Home she sets out to catch the killer, and from that decision her life spirals out of control as she and her loved ones become targets. The tension escalates, the local doctor is accused of malpractice, the killer starts branching out until it culminates in the final desperate confrontation with the murderer.
Just when you thought it was safe to go into a nursing home along came Marie...........
REVIEW:
***** 5/5
Chillingly authentic and far too close to home. November 15, 2013
By hollobrain
The author is a nurse and she brings realism to the pages. I'm a nurse too and we all can relate to the patients that she mentions. I'm sure we've all had a Guiseppa and an Emily and a variety of others. Let's hope she is not speaking from experience though when get into the mind of her mad nurse Marie Fitzgerald. One of the scenes is chillingly real when she murders a patient with an insulin overdose - brings it close to home as in Australia at the moment a nursing home is being investigated after several deaths from insulin overdoses - suspicious deaths. When Marie loses her temper and smothers a patient, she convinces herself that she was acting for God, who is sick of waiting for the old people in the Lexton court nursing home to come to him. If you're a nurse you can relate, if you're a prospective patient, it will scare the pants of you. And hey, take the time out to go to either you tube and type in the author's name or go to her website [...] and check out the promo video for Gods - excellent and creepy. Check out her other books while you're there. This is a new author, but I can see a great career for her.
There was an expression in those pale blue eyes looking down at her, which frightened her. They belied the nurse’s harmless words. There was a hint of hidden menace, a vague premonition of evil waiting to be unleased lurking behind those eyes…..
When Lucy O’Brien, a newly graduated nurse starts work at the Lexton Court Nursing home, little does she realize the terror that lurks within. At first she suspects patient abuse, but soon realizes it is much worse than that. Patients are being killed. Enlisting the aid of Eliza Harris, a mentally spry but physically debilitated resident of the Home she sets out to catch the killer, and from that decision her life spirals out of control as she and her loved ones become targets. The tension escalates, the local doctor is accused of malpractice, the killer starts branching out until it culminates in the final desperate confrontation with the murderer.
Just when you thought it was safe to go into a nursing home along came Marie...........
REVIEW:
***** 5/5
Chillingly authentic and far too close to home. November 15, 2013
By hollobrain
The author is a nurse and she brings realism to the pages. I'm a nurse too and we all can relate to the patients that she mentions. I'm sure we've all had a Guiseppa and an Emily and a variety of others. Let's hope she is not speaking from experience though when get into the mind of her mad nurse Marie Fitzgerald. One of the scenes is chillingly real when she murders a patient with an insulin overdose - brings it close to home as in Australia at the moment a nursing home is being investigated after several deaths from insulin overdoses - suspicious deaths. When Marie loses her temper and smothers a patient, she convinces herself that she was acting for God, who is sick of waiting for the old people in the Lexton court nursing home to come to him. If you're a nurse you can relate, if you're a prospective patient, it will scare the pants of you. And hey, take the time out to go to either you tube and type in the author's name or go to her website [...] and check out the promo video for Gods - excellent and creepy. Check out her other books while you're there. This is a new author, but I can see a great career for her.
Night Moves
Night Moves is a frightening look at what could happen on night shift in a hospital when nurses go bad. The author, a nurse herself, brings the realism of experience to the story and paints a vivid picture. It almost makes one think twice before going into hospital as a patient. You may not survive the night. When the regular night shift nurses, Kate, Maria, Susan and Mandy play a joke on graduate nurse Christine Wilder on her first shift, they little realize that the joke would backfire and turn into a nightmare of terrifying consequences. Murder, assault, robbery, kidnap and blackmail are just a few of the horrors the nurses’ face. Their friendship is tested as suspicion falls upon one of their number. Who can they trust? More importantly will they survive the night shift?
REVIEW:
***** 4/5Spot on with the nursing details with a suitable amount of tension as the situation escalates beyond their control.
By Cat Sinclair on February 14, 2014
I'm a nurse, coincidentally working night shift so I could really relate to this book. In fact I'd even heard of the pillow game. Tontine game we call it, so it was all very convincing and even possible. it starts when new nurse Christine Wilder starts night shift. She's just out of college so not overly experienced. The night nurses play a prank on her - ie that when they're bored they smother a patient just so they can call a code and resuscitate him. They mean to tell her the truth in the morning but get busy and forget. To their horror, Christine actually goes and does it on a quiet night and they don't find out about it until the patient is resuscitated and they're back at the nurses station. Outrage turns to panic as they realize that this act of stupidity could cost them their jobs. The pt survived so they agree to cover it up, until the nurses on night shift start dying - horribly. Its a good book. If you are a nurse you can relate to this, if not, it will put you off going into hospital. :-)
REVIEW:
***** 4/5Spot on with the nursing details with a suitable amount of tension as the situation escalates beyond their control.
By Cat Sinclair on February 14, 2014
I'm a nurse, coincidentally working night shift so I could really relate to this book. In fact I'd even heard of the pillow game. Tontine game we call it, so it was all very convincing and even possible. it starts when new nurse Christine Wilder starts night shift. She's just out of college so not overly experienced. The night nurses play a prank on her - ie that when they're bored they smother a patient just so they can call a code and resuscitate him. They mean to tell her the truth in the morning but get busy and forget. To their horror, Christine actually goes and does it on a quiet night and they don't find out about it until the patient is resuscitated and they're back at the nurses station. Outrage turns to panic as they realize that this act of stupidity could cost them their jobs. The pt survived so they agree to cover it up, until the nurses on night shift start dying - horribly. Its a good book. If you are a nurse you can relate to this, if not, it will put you off going into hospital. :-)
Natural Progression
ural Progression is reminiscent of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment as it describes one man’s descent into ever escalating crime and violence.
Gordon Bellmore is a happy go lucky man celebrating his 21st birthday with his friends. Despite having had a few drinks he decides to drive home. It’s dark, it’s raining and he doesn’t see his elderly confused neighbour, Mrs Wainwright, wander out onto the road. It is an accident sure enough but he panics and decides to move the body and it is this decision that changes his life.
When he helps to move his friend Bluey, the elderly woman from across the road comes over and questions Gordon. He seems familiar to her. Once again he panics, because it was in front of her house that he’d dumped Mrs Wainwright. He realizes that she must have seen him and therefore has to silenced before she reports him to the police. Now he takes his first step into deliberate crime, progressing from accidental death to murder, only to realize that he is still not safe, as his friend Bluey starts to question why his car was parked in front of his new flat when he had supposedly left. Another loose end: Another murder. Haunted by ghosts, lies, and his need to keep his secret at all costs he devolves into a coldblooded, emotionless, conscienceless killer. He thinks he hasn’t changed, but those closest to him know there is something seriously wrong. He begins to think of himself as invincible, little realizing that the police are closing in and unraveling the threads he’s cunningly tied. This book will draw you in as you follow his natural progression from sanity to insanity. How many will he kill before he’s stopped? How far will he go? Is anyone, even his parents or his girlfriend safe?
REVIEW:
***** 4/5
A natural progression from sanity to madness. A definite must read that keeps you enthralled to the end.
By Cat Sinclair July 20 2014
This was a little different from the usual books written by this author, but as always I enjoyed it. A more serious novel, not a lot of humour interlaced in the story, but given the subject matter, not surprising. Its the story of a young man celebrating his 21st birthday with friends. On his way home he runs over an elderly neighbour and kills her. He's been drinking and he panics and decides to move the body and dump it elsewhere, and from there on begins his downward slide into murder and madness. This story brings to mind Dostoyevski's crime and punishment, where one small crime leads to bigger and more deliberate crimes. Once you start reading this book,you get hooked and it is hard to put it down.
Gordon Bellmore is a happy go lucky man celebrating his 21st birthday with his friends. Despite having had a few drinks he decides to drive home. It’s dark, it’s raining and he doesn’t see his elderly confused neighbour, Mrs Wainwright, wander out onto the road. It is an accident sure enough but he panics and decides to move the body and it is this decision that changes his life.
When he helps to move his friend Bluey, the elderly woman from across the road comes over and questions Gordon. He seems familiar to her. Once again he panics, because it was in front of her house that he’d dumped Mrs Wainwright. He realizes that she must have seen him and therefore has to silenced before she reports him to the police. Now he takes his first step into deliberate crime, progressing from accidental death to murder, only to realize that he is still not safe, as his friend Bluey starts to question why his car was parked in front of his new flat when he had supposedly left. Another loose end: Another murder. Haunted by ghosts, lies, and his need to keep his secret at all costs he devolves into a coldblooded, emotionless, conscienceless killer. He thinks he hasn’t changed, but those closest to him know there is something seriously wrong. He begins to think of himself as invincible, little realizing that the police are closing in and unraveling the threads he’s cunningly tied. This book will draw you in as you follow his natural progression from sanity to insanity. How many will he kill before he’s stopped? How far will he go? Is anyone, even his parents or his girlfriend safe?
REVIEW:
***** 4/5
A natural progression from sanity to madness. A definite must read that keeps you enthralled to the end.
By Cat Sinclair July 20 2014
This was a little different from the usual books written by this author, but as always I enjoyed it. A more serious novel, not a lot of humour interlaced in the story, but given the subject matter, not surprising. Its the story of a young man celebrating his 21st birthday with friends. On his way home he runs over an elderly neighbour and kills her. He's been drinking and he panics and decides to move the body and dump it elsewhere, and from there on begins his downward slide into murder and madness. This story brings to mind Dostoyevski's crime and punishment, where one small crime leads to bigger and more deliberate crimes. Once you start reading this book,you get hooked and it is hard to put it down.
Tall Tales and Other Stories
A collection of short stories of which yours truly has one. Only available from amazon.com (Hard to find these days) The Short story is God's Disciple. Now also available in a full length book. See above for more details and watch the video. I recommend the long version :-)
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