Roberta Gately

This book is the first in the Jessie Novak series, starting off with a bang when the Mayor's aide Rob Hart and his wife are shot. As they reach the ER Jessie starts working on them but something is confusing her. Why was he just shot in the leg but his wife shot in the head and later dies?
Jessie can’t understand it, it doesn’t make sense and thinks Rob had something to do with it and starts delving but as she investigates and helps the police as much as she can, telling them her own suspicions she finds that she could be in danger too when strange things start happening at her home.
This was a great read, I liked Jessie Novak’s character and how she was determined to find out the real reason for the shooting and the death of Ann Hart but at the same time putting herself in a dangerous situation too.
It was a book that I didn’t want to put down, and although I found that my suspicions about someone was right it did not spoil the story. It just made me read it faster to see if I was right.

Overall I enjoyed reading it, it was different, fresh and I'm looking forward to the next instalment in the series.
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Dead Girl Walking is an edge-of-your seat mystery. Jessie Novak loves her job as an ER nurse at Boston City Hospital. Usually able to distance herself from the trauma and tragedy, one case affects her unexpectedly. A young couple arrives, victims of a robbery gone wrong. But the story the husband tells doesn't ring true to Jessie. She is warned by Detective Sam Dallas to be careful, but Jessie doesn't trust him after a sleazy reporter tells her the police are involved in a cover-up. Jessie doesn't know who to believe or where to turn. This is a page-turner with enough medical details to satisfy, but presented in a way that didn't baffle or bore me. I enjoyed the well-drawn cast of characters, and hope to see them in future stories.… (plus d'informations)

A young couple is brought to Boston City Hospital after they are shot in an alley while out celebrating. Nurse Jessie is the first on the scene and cannot help but notice the husband does not appear worried about the wife. He is allowed to stay in the hospital long after he's ready and she learns what a true jerk he is and begins to question if he's not the one who shot his wife.
This book was only okay, not suspenseful by my standards. Jessie was more concerned which police officer she was going to hook up with and how her makeup looked. Where she was smart, she also appeared high maintenance and it drove me nuts. I lost count the number of times she "touched up her makeup", how does she have time for that? When her apartment starts getting broken into and all the sudden her work schedule disappears, she just shrugs it off and says "Well I don't need it anyway". Where she is smart in some areas, she's completely stupid in others.
The reader knew throughout the entire book who was to blame, that was obvious. I wish I could have enjoyed this more, but I didn't. Thank you NetGalley for another book for my honest review.… (plus d'informations)