Kurtz and Barent Mystery Series: Books 4-6
(2020)(A book in the Kurtz and Barent Mystery series)
An omnibus of novels by Robert I Katz
Books 4 through 6 in the Kurtz and Barent mystery series, now available in one convenient volume!
Surgeon Richard Kurtz has a reputation at Easton Medical Center as a tough guy, a reputation that he considers absurd, despite the 300-pound biker on a drug induced rampage who Kurtz recently knocked out in the ER. Kurtz has a growing practice, a luxury apartment on the East Side of Manhattan and a beautiful fiancee.
Lew Barent has seen a lot of dead bodies in his job as a homicide detective. Barent has chronic migraine headaches, a wife and daughter he dotes on, a son-in-law he can barely stand and a job that he's looking forward to leaving.
Fate, and murder, have brought Kurtz and Barent together, but it turns out that the two men, seemingly so different, have a lot in common: they don't pull their punches, they never give up, they have an obsessive need to see justice served, and neither runs from a fight.
In The Chairmen: The Chairman of Cardiac Surgery is about to retire. The Chairman of Anesthesiology is making himself so obnoxious that his department is in open revolt and the Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology is being stalked by a lunatic. As petty harassment escalates into vandalism and then assault, the College of Medicine finds itself under siege, and Kurtz, Barent and Moran are once again thrown into the center of the mayhem.
In Brighton Beach: Kurtz' most recent patient, an undercover cop, has had his brain scrambled by a sniper's bullet. Another patient is dying because an incompetent colleague made one mistake too many. A third patient got hit by a car after OD'ing on a new, unknown narcotic, and Steven Hayward and his wife, both drug dealers, were found dead in bed with their detached heads propped up on the kitchen counter. How does the Russian mob fit into things? Who is doing what to whom? Kurtz can't resist asking questions, but the wrong questions asked of the wrong people could get him killed.
In If a Tree Falls: Richard Kurtz was looking forward to spending a few weeks in the West Virginia mountains, covering for another surgeon. It should have been a pleasant break from his busy New York practice, giving Kurtz and Lenore a good excuse to return home to the family farm and reconnect with his father and his father's new family. And then Lenore stumbles on the skull of a young girl at the bottom of a creek and fifteen dead bodies are discovered in a shallow grave.
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Genre: Mystery
Surgeon Richard Kurtz has a reputation at Easton Medical Center as a tough guy, a reputation that he considers absurd, despite the 300-pound biker on a drug induced rampage who Kurtz recently knocked out in the ER. Kurtz has a growing practice, a luxury apartment on the East Side of Manhattan and a beautiful fiancee.
Lew Barent has seen a lot of dead bodies in his job as a homicide detective. Barent has chronic migraine headaches, a wife and daughter he dotes on, a son-in-law he can barely stand and a job that he's looking forward to leaving.
Fate, and murder, have brought Kurtz and Barent together, but it turns out that the two men, seemingly so different, have a lot in common: they don't pull their punches, they never give up, they have an obsessive need to see justice served, and neither runs from a fight.
In The Chairmen: The Chairman of Cardiac Surgery is about to retire. The Chairman of Anesthesiology is making himself so obnoxious that his department is in open revolt and the Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology is being stalked by a lunatic. As petty harassment escalates into vandalism and then assault, the College of Medicine finds itself under siege, and Kurtz, Barent and Moran are once again thrown into the center of the mayhem.
In Brighton Beach: Kurtz' most recent patient, an undercover cop, has had his brain scrambled by a sniper's bullet. Another patient is dying because an incompetent colleague made one mistake too many. A third patient got hit by a car after OD'ing on a new, unknown narcotic, and Steven Hayward and his wife, both drug dealers, were found dead in bed with their detached heads propped up on the kitchen counter. How does the Russian mob fit into things? Who is doing what to whom? Kurtz can't resist asking questions, but the wrong questions asked of the wrong people could get him killed.
In If a Tree Falls: Richard Kurtz was looking forward to spending a few weeks in the West Virginia mountains, covering for another surgeon. It should have been a pleasant break from his busy New York practice, giving Kurtz and Lenore a good excuse to return home to the family farm and reconnect with his father and his father's new family. And then Lenore stumbles on the skull of a young girl at the bottom of a creek and fifteen dead bodies are discovered in a shallow grave.
Buy it now!
Genre: Mystery
Used availability for Robert I Katz's Kurtz and Barent Mystery Series: Books 4-6