Call Game - by Graham Elder & Laura Cody (Paperback)

About the Book

When a Thanksgiving Day blizzard traps the staff and patients of Northern Michigan Hospital inside with a serial killer, a young female surgeon and a traumatized psychiatrist must join forces to survive the night and protect their patients.

Book Synopsis

"An exceptional debut novel full of intrigue, surprising twists, and medical stories portraying the drama found every day in the hospital." -Gary Gerlacher, Bestselling Author of the AJ Docker Series

Chief orthopedic resident, Dr. Rylan Fraser, knows she's in for a bad on-call night when she arrives in the trauma bay to find a young father barely holding on after a major motorcycle accident. It's the eve of Thanksgiving, so staffing is thin, but things slide further downhill when she learns her junior resident is AWOL and the blizzard raging outside has stranded her supervising attending in a roadside ditch. This means she must fly solo, breaking the established chain-of-command to perform a series of emergency operations she is almost-but-not-entirely qualified to do on her own. Just when she thinks things can't get any worse, they do. In between surgeries, Rylan is summoned to the ward to check on her post-op patients-only to find one after the other dead in their beds.

With stress levels skyrocketing, Rylan teams up with the friendly (and handsome) on-call psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Bennet, to puzzle out what's happening. Nothing is quite what it seems, though. As the night unfolds, Rylan and Paul are pulled deeper and deeper into a sick cat and mouse game in which their very own lives hang in the balance.

Review Quotes

"An exceptional debut novel full of intrigue, surprising twists, and medical stories portraying the drama found every day in the hospital."-Gary Gerlacher, Bestselling Author of the AJ Docker Series

"Combines fascinating true-life medical situations and a final twist I did not see coming to offer a suspenseful serial killer thriller that pulled me in and did not release me until the last page. I highly recommend this book." -Scott Eveloff, MD, author of Do Not Resuscitate

"Grabs hold from the very first chapter and doesn't let go. With sharp dialogue, vivid characters, and a steadily mounting sense of dread, Call Game keeps the tension high all the way to its haunting and explosive conclusion. A gripping, genre-bending read that I highly recommend." -Julia Shraybman, author of Lucky 6

"Should come with a warning not to read before bedtime ... to call it gripping would be an understatement ... I have lost 2 nights' sleep reading it and just finished the book now ... 6:15 am ... well done!! 5 stars!!!" -John Clement, author of Musings of the Wandering Whisky Whisperer

"This book is a read-in-one-evening thriller that you can't put down! Think Sherlock Holmes meets Grey's Anatomy. Awesome read!" -Dr. Brynlea Barbeau, MD (GP)

"Anyone who has worked a night shift where it feels like nothing can go right will love this book." -Dr. Emily Cook, MD (Anesthesiologist)