Raney & Levine Thrillers by J.A. Schneider (#1-6)
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Overview: J.A. (Joyce Anne) Schneider is a former staffer at Newsweek Magazine. She is the author of the Embryo medical thriller series, and of the Detective Kerri Blasco Police/Psychological Thrillers Fear Dreams, Her Last Breath, and Watching You.
Genre: Mystery
1. EMBRYO – Is a malignant genius tinkering with women’s bodies…? Obstetrical intern Jill Raney determines to investigate tragedies at a famous fertility hospital. When two pregnant women die and a fetus is born with severe abnormalities, Jill’s superiors – including handsome, smitten-with-her resident David Levine – insist there’s no common link.
But her suspicions deepen with the murder of a third pregnant woman. And when a fourth woman miscarries and then disappears, Jill frantically searches for her – following a terrifying path that seems to link all the victims: Is someone playing with life…and the structures of human life itself?
2. CROSSHAIRS – The heart-stopping ending of Embryo has created a new crisis… Intern Jill Raney and the man she loves, obstetrical resident David Levine, barely escaped death at the hands of a madman. The awful scene, captured by news choppers, became a media obsession, run horrifyingly over and over. Jill and David are now reluctant "celebrities" – and the targets of every wacko who wants to share in the attention.
Including a killer. Someone who begins venting his fury at their "fame" by his hideous assaults on women – assaults which Jill and David discover are also death threats to them, and to a 6-month-old baby who has yet to be born. Friends beg David, who is a crack shot, to carry a gun, but he doesn’t. "What’s the use?" he asks. "A doctor’s back is always turned."
Instead, Jill and David join forces to become detectives on their own, helping the police in ways that even forensics experts never imagined; working frantically to uncover an unspeakable secret that dooms their fate and that of a sweet-faced, unborn child…unless they can put an end to an obsessed killer’s twisted quest
3. RANEY & LEVINE – Another doctors-&-cops adrenalin-packed thriller: First, tension enters Jill’s & David’s relationship over what to do about newborn Jesse. They both love him, but David feels that he’d be safer adopted anonymously. Suddenly their stress turns to horror when they discover that a murderous religious zealot is after both Jesse – whom he calls "devil spawn" – and Jill & David’s hospital which he calls "the devil’s workshop which must be destroyed!" This time, the whole hospital is threatened… Jill and David join forces with the police in a terrifying race to track down a killer, and to prevent an unthinkable catastrophe.
4. CATCH ME – A terrifying serial killer who just targets couples, and leaves taunting notes for the NYPD signed CATCH ME… At a loss, police request the help of doctors Jill Raney and David Levine, police friends and detectives on their own. Both have helped when cops’ hands are tied, or in ways that even police forensics never imagined.
But this killer, a sharp shooter, is always a step ahead. He wears gloves and disguises, shoots victim pairs at random with an unregistered gun, and leaves no physical evidence or eyewitnesses. His only weakness: jealousy to hear that David is also a crack shot, and a creepy interest in the couple’s adopted little son, Jesse, almost one year old, dubbed by the media "the miracle baby," and already showing signs that he is as intuitive as his mother…
The killer draws closer, gripping New York City and the entire nation in horror, pulling Jill and David into the worst terror they have yet encountered.
5. SILVER GIRL – A beautiful young TV star, Jody Merrill, dies mysteriously and police are stumped. They are even more at a loss when the grisly remains of yet another actress, Jody’s co-star, are found.
Detectives request the help of doctors Jill Raney and David Levine, police friends and detectives on their own. For Jill and David this is personal; they are heartbroken since both murdered young women were their friends. Furiously they resolve to find the killer: to skirt the law as they always do in cases of sex crimes, child abuse and murder; helping where cops’ hands are tied ("No warrant? No problem!"), or in ways that police forensics never imagined.
The killer, capable of unspeakable savagery, must commit more murders in order to hide…possibly behind the glitzy cover of Show Biz Hell. As Jody Merrill called it, "That gorgeous, sparkly bubble that closes you in, bloats your ego in some weird, alternate universe where you lose all bearings, lose yourself. Fame is unhealthy."
6. RAZOR SHARP – A Jack the Ripper type killer is murdering male prostitutes, with one exception…
A young woman is found brutally attacked with a straight razor, her cruel facial mutilation the only link to three other horrific murders: a transgender woman, a transvestite, and a 17-year-old hustler. So nasty are the kills of those three born-males that the psychopath seems to be saying, they’re all males…
FROM HELL he scrawls, taunting the NYPD with the words written in 1888 to the police by the original Jack the Ripper. The cops are sickened and at a loss: this killer is too cunning, wears gloves and disguises, leaves no physical evidence, and kills again.
Just one small favor, the police ask physicians Jill Raney and David Levine, friends and – until now, detectives on their own. "No warrant? No problem!" had been their mantra…until their relationship with the cops got crazy; led to exhaustion and conflict.
But they share the horror that grips the country and agree to help, thus plunging into a terrifying maze of psycho-sexual obsession and madness.
Complicating matters further is their adopted little son Jesse, dubbed "the miracle baby" by the media, now a sweet little chatterbox showing signs that he may have yet another special gift that Jill and David are only beginning to recognize
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