Joanna Blalock Series

by Leonard Goldberg

Keyword descriptors
Serial murders -- Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Blalock, Joanna (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Forensic pathologists -- Fiction.
Women detectives -- Fiction.
Donation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Fiction.
Research vessels -- Fiction.
Research vessels -- Bering Sea -- Fiction.
Toxins -- Fiction.
Forensic pathologists -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.

Geographic descriptors
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Bering Sea -- Fiction.


Deadly Medicine bookjacket

         

1. Deadly Medicine (1992)

When someone starts killing nurses at a prestigious L.A. hospital, forsenic pathologist Joanna Blalock decides to investigate and is thrown into a spiraling vortex of deceit and danger that pits her against a murderer.
-- Review from http://www.amazon.com


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Deadly Practice bookjacket

         

2. Deadly Practice (1993)

A serial killer with a grudge against doctors at an L.A. hospital and the expertise to imitate each of his victims' medical specialties stalks the hospital halls, and forensic pathologist Joanna Blalock must stop him before she becomes the next victim.
-- Review from http://www.amazon.com

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Deadly Care bookjacket

         

3. Deadly Care (1996)

Dr. Joanna Blalock, a Los Angeles pathologist is back at Memorial Hospital, where a recent outcropping of Legionnaires' disease had flooded her dissecting rooms with an overflow of coroner's cases.
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Deadly Harvest bookjacket

         

4. Deadly Harvest (1997)

Tough police Lieutenant Jake Sinclair and pathologist Joanna Blalock team up again to excellent effect, tackling a tangled web of a case that pits them against both garden-variety murderers and predatory traffickers in human body parts.
-- Review from
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Deadly Exposure bookjacket

         

5. Deadly Exposure (1998)

Joanna Blalock finds cholera in a dead Chinese infant in Los Angeles, and then is immediately whizzed by a top government security officer to Global Explorer II, a floating laboratory off the coast of Alaska, where a giant, glittering iceberg seems to be releasing a deadly, 65-million-year-old toxin.
-- Review from
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Lethal Measures bookjacket

         

6. Lethal Measures (2000)

Lethal Measures (2000) Joanna Blalock and Lieutenant Jake Sinclair. Sleuths and ex-lovers, team up to investigate a catastrophic explosion in Los Angeles that threatens nationals safety and security.
-- Review from http://www.amazon.com

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Fatal Care bookjacket

         

7. Fatal Care (2001)

Joanna follows a trail of unexplained deaths to a biogenetic laboratory-where scientists are making unprecedented leaps in gene therapy...at the cost of human life.
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Brainwaves bookjacket

         

8. Brainwaves (2002)

Noted neurologist Karen Crandell's death is the latest in a string of tragedies that have befallen the Los Angeles Memorial Medical Center, and once again, Joanna and her boyfriend, Detective Jake Sinclair, are on the case.

-- Review from http://www.amazon.com


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Fever Cell bookjacket

         

9. Fever Cell (2003)

Leonard Goldberg now plunges Joanna Blalock, forensic detective, and partner Lieutenant Jake Sinclair into a plot to turn a viral medical nightmare into a terrifying reality.
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Leonard Goldberg Bio

Leonard Goldberg, M.D., is a consulting physician in Los Angeles and is affiliated with UCLA Medical Center, where he is a clinical professor. He is also a highly sought-after expert witness in medical malpractice trials. He is the author of the Joanna Blalock series. A native of South Carolina, Dr. Goldberg makes his home in Los Angeles.
-- Review from http://us.penguingroup.com

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