Seventh Street Books
Featuring: Rory Gallagher; Jane Barrett; Mark Angelotti
271 pages ISBN: 1616148799 EAN: 9781616148799 Kindle: B00GL3HK44 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
In Lynne Raimondo's novel DANTE'S POISON, Mark Angelotti is
a psychiatrist who
is going blind. While he is dealing with his past feeling
that he has let many
people down and dealing with the guilt he is trying to
figure out his feelings for
his friend Hallie Sanchez. She does not know about his
faults and his past that he
felt would keep anyone from being close to him. At the same
time he is
volunteering for a new drug that could possibly help him get
his sight back.
Then Hallie gets a call that her old friend Jane Barrett, an
attorney, has just
been arrested for murdering her boyfriend and journalist
Rory Gallagher with an
antipsychotic medication, Lucitrol. Let's face it; she did
have access to the drug
through a client, the manufacturers themselves. There have
been other claims
against this drug that she has defended. Mark and Hallie
have to figure out what
this has to do with the death of Gallagher. He had made many
enemies from his
stories in the paper. Could she have been framed? Barrett
herself has made just
as many enemies, as most of her colleagues find her
ruthless.
As Hallie and Mark investigate things themselves, their
lives are in danger
and someone has attacked them leaving Hallie in the
hospital. Mark tries to get
what information he can, even though his handicap as a blind
man can make it a
challenge at times. Will Mark be able to figure out the
murder before he is their
next victim?
Lynne Raimondo's DANTE'S POISON is a mystery novel that is
different from
most. With the main character being blind and trying to
solve a murder by
collecting clues, Raimondo has the task of using all of
Marks other senses to put
the pieces together. It is refreshing to read a mystery
novel where the quest to
solve the problem requires much more than just the
character's sight. Well-done
Raimondo!
Blind psychiatrist Mark Angelotti has just enrolled in a drug trial that holds out hope of restoring his eyesight when he again becomes entangled in a case that is rocking the Chicago legal community. After defending the manufacturer of the powerful antipsychotic drug Lucitrol against product-liability claims, attorney Jane Barrett has become somewhat of an expert on the controversial medication. So when her lover, investigative journalist Rory Gallagher, collapses from a fatal dose of the same drug, it falls to Hallie Sanchez, Barrett’s oldest friend, to defend her on murder charges. Amid growing doubts about her friend’s innocence, Hallie recruits Mark Angelotti to help her discredit the testimony of a crucial eyewitness. The pair succeeds in obtaining Barrett’s release, but at a dreadful price. Mark sets out to investigate who else may have wanted the journalist out of the way. As he gets closer to the truth, he realizes the killer is still on the loose. But two questions remain for Mark: Will the drug trial succeed in restoring his eyesight? More important, will he live long enough to see this case to its end?
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