Cold Steal

Pauli Golden is having an affair with her boss, the brilliant scientist and gynecologist, Dr. Stevens St. Steven. She didn't intend for it to happen. She is too smart for that.But when she got two dream jobs'staff reporter a the prestigious periodical Contemporary Medicine Magazine, and writer for the posh research facility, Medway Institute where Stevens and his co-director, Dr. Harry Stornell conduct their battles in the war on cancer. She fell for Stevens charm and warmth. Now he's invited her to the institute's party celebrating the million-dollar Federal grant just awarded to Stevens for cancer research. Pauli isn't sure that she wants to socialize with Stevens? colleagues, or for that matter, his wife. The lab group seemed pleasant enough, at first. Everyone matched to the right job. Amiable and brilliant like Dr. Morgan Dianis, the anti-cancer serum man. Each a unique cog in a smooth running research machine. That is except Carol Deming, the mouse surgeon. She's the odd one, the one that doesn't seem to fit in.Dr. Deming is in charge of the mice'the athymic mice, specially bred for research. Poor hairless little creatures with no immunity to protect them, they were the blank canvas upon which the researchers drew their complex cancer constructions. When Stevens is savagely murdered just before the big party, Pauli cannot image who could be capable of killing her lover in such a vicious and violent way. Pauli is determined to expose the killer and avenge Stevens. Her investigation uncovers a treacherous and hateful climate at the institute that has led to fraud and unethical genetic research'and homicide.Cold Steal'a suspense novel about medicine, money, and murder'is the first in a series of medical thrillers by Carole Spearin McCauley. Originally published in England, this is Cold Steal's debut to the rest of the world.Spearin-McCauley, Carole is the author of 'Cold Steal' with ISBN 9781591330448 and ISBN 1591330440.