Whew. These books in the Angels of Mercy Medical Center series are never anywhere near easy to read. I don't mean technically, I knew all the words (even a lot of the Med speak stuff), but I mean the topics were insanely intense in this book.

Nora, the ER's charge nurse, finds a dying woman near the Med Center and it sends everyone in paroxysms of fear, worry and anger. Not to mention everyone seems to have their very own unique secrets and a whole lot of them seem to be revealed in this book.

It's a solidly written book, but what I find most interesting about this book and the two that preceded it is just how interconnected and serial their stories are. Most mystery/thriller writers have-- connective tissue-- between their books in the same series, heck, some authors like Beverly Connor have connections between two different serieses. But, in the same series there's almost always threads that flow through all the books. Some authors do it well, others don't, but it's been quite awhile since I read a series that was so interconnected like the Angels of Mercy series is. It's very cool, though on occasion I'll get a little confused if something comes up in the current story that I don't quite remember from the previous ones, but, Lyons seems a good enough author that even if I get lost for a moment, she pulls me back into the story. ( )