The Prodigal Son
✍ Scribed by Mccullough, Colleen
- Book ID
- 108634327
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 183 KB
- Series
- Carmine Delmonico 4
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780732293239
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
′McCullough is a tremendous storyteller′ THE TIMES Holloman, Connecticut, 1969. A very rare and lethal toxin, extracted from the blowfish, is stolen from a laboratory at Chubb University. It kills within minutes and leaves no trace behind -- unless a doctor knows what to look for -- and worried biochemist Dr. Millie Hunter reports the theft at once to her father, Medical Examiner Dr. Patrick O′Donnell. Patrick′s cousin, Captain Carmine Delmonico, is therefore quick off the mark when the bodies start to mount up. A sudden death at a dinner party followed by another at a gala black-tie event seem at first to be linked only by the poison and Dr. Jim Hunter, a scientist on the brink of greatness and husband to Millie. A black man married to a white woman, Dr. Jim has faced scandal and prejudice for most of his life, so what would cause him to risk it all now? Is he being framed for murder --...
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