‘Twisted Justice’ By Patricia Gussin

Published by Oceanview Publishing. December 2007

ISBN: 978-1-933515-08-3

Hardcover, $23.95, 336 pp.

Dr. Laura Nelson, a respected and talented surgeon, faces more calamities than is possible in this twisting tale.  To begin with, she walks into her home after a long and difficult day and night of surgery to find her husband and a strange woman nude in the family room.  Then she is found later on in that woman's home kneeling by her dead body and Laura's fingerprint on the murder weapon.  She is arrested and accused of the murder.  Among other travails to follow, one of her children is found to be seriously ill.

This novel is a complex story about mistakes, failed relationships, lies, manipulation and betrayals.  The author is a physician and uses her professional knowledge to provide the story with a high degree of realism.

Moreover, she does a credible job in the ins and outs of Laura's legal defense and child custody problems.  The only criticism is her characterization of the husband, which is superficial (as is he).

All in all, the novel is a well-paced saga, suspenseful with a plot that keeps the reader wondering what will happen next.  Dr.  Nelson first appeared in Shadow of Death, and it would seem she is poised to play a role in a future novel.

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Theodore Feit