Search - Brain Dead

I usually like Eileen Dreyer's medical mysteries but this one dragged so bad and was so boring for most of it that I had to force myself to finish it. I really liked Timmie Leary (Traumawoman, Forensics Fairy and Death investigator) and reporter Daniel Murphy. They were both well-fleshed out characters with interesting pasts and somewhat promising futures...eventually. The whole "who's killing the elderly residents of the alzheimer's ward" plot was boring as hell. I think this book could easily have been culled to less than 300 pages and not suffered any. I did like the last third of the book when the action finally started and the suspects were finally narrowed down to a manageable level. I was surprised at the culprit since I had totally chosen the wrong one. An ok book but not as good as her other novels.

Timmie has been a forensic nurse in LA. She moves back home to a small town and finds people are being killed but no one seems to mind except her. And they don't want her to mind. Very good story

Emergency room nurse Timmie Leary is searching for peace in Puckett, Missouri. But what she quickly discovers in the small town E.R. doesn't help her sleep any better than before. Too many peope are entering the hospital and leaving it dead. And nobody seems worried but her.