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House Call

By: Darden North
Narrated by: Michael Robbins
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Summary

In national award-winning author Darden North's debut novel, House Call, a police investigation into the murder of a young hospital nurse rips through a Mississippi community consumed in self-indulgence, reverse sexual discrimination, and cut-throat medical politics. Before a psychopath can be stopped, another will die. 

In House Call, Dr. Knox Chamblee joins a prominent medical clinic in a small southern town and soon finds himself the object of reverse sexual discrimination in the workforce. Worse yet, he is possibly a murder suspect. 

There are no real leads in the stabbing of nurse Taylor Richards until police uncover tire prints in a driveway that lead them to an answer in backwoods Mississippi.

©2010 Darden North (P)2019 Darden North

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Pleasant read

Good bit of light reading although a bit predictable. Might need to give some thought to the people you get to read your books.

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I nearly stopped reading this before getting halfway through.It just came off as bad taste,then it picked up and I couldn't put it down!A really good medical mystery. Michael Robbins was a good narrator. I was given this book by the narrator,author or publisher free for an honest review.

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You're having some hard knocks, Knox.

House Call is an immersive and enjoyable slow burn mystery thriller which follows various life threads in addition to that of the main killings. The reader is immediately plunged into the story with the brutal murder of Taylor Richards, a thirty three years old hospital nurse, in her bathtub by an unknown intruder, only to then be whisked away to Taylor's former workplace, and the trauma of an understaffed medical unit trying to cope with several near simultaneous birth crises. The reader is introduced to numerous characters directly or indirectly connected with the Mont Claire Centre for Women's Medical and Surgical Services, Taylor's employer, several of whom become the focus of their own individual stories, making this book far more than just a straightforward murder mystery, incorporating sexual discrimination, addiction, confidentiality, practice politics, relationships, drug testing - and more.
The characters are well developed, becoming fully rounded people with personal aspirations and reactions which felt realistic: it was easy to relate to them, whether in a positive way or otherwise, and it was fascinating to feel the deaths in the book to be almost overshadowed by consequences, rather than the loss of the person and the search for the killer. At times, quite harrowing, there are flashes of humour, too. Very expertly done. The narration fits well. Clearly articulated with good intonation, the reading is not over dramatised, letting the story tell itself. But the characters are each individually and appropriately voiced, giving them even greater depth. A fine, subdued performance matching the timbre of the book.

I was very fortunate in being freely gifted with a complimentary copy of House Call, by the rights holder, after my request via Audiobook Boom. Thank you. I very much enjoyed this organic way of experiencing a murder mystery and will be looking out for more books by this author, himself a medical practitioner, in the future. It is a slice of life story centred around the deaths and, as such, has a depth of personality not often found in straightforward murder mysteries.
Recommended.

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