Leah Ruth Robinson
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Leah Ruth Robinson is a New-York-State-certified Emergency Medical Technician, Robinson serves in the Emergency Room of St. Luke's Hospital (St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center),New York City. For a number of years, she taught cardiopulmonary resuscitation to laypersons at Lenox Hill Hospital. Active in writers' organizations, Robinson currently serves on the national board of directors of Mystery Writers of America, and is a former member of the steering committee of Sisters in Crime NY/Tri-state.
In civilian life Robinson goes by the name Leah Robinson Rousmaniere. She is married to historian/writer John Rousmaniere, and divides her time between Stamford, Connecticut, New York City, and South Pomfret, Vermont.
Leah Ruth Robinson writes medical thrillers starring emergency room physician Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe. FIRST CUT earned this accolade from Publisher's Weekly: "Slick and fast, the perfect medicine for readers who can't wait for the next episode of ER."
The New York Times Book Review found BLOOD RUN (Avon Books, January 1999 reprint) "quick, incisive, thrilling -- a medical suspense novel that comes instantly alive!"
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- BLOOD RUN
- Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe works in an urban war zone - battling death every day in the Emergency Room of Manhattan's University Hospital. But when a fellow doctor and close friend is found dead of an apparent suicide overdose, Evelyn must probe the hidden corners of the medical world to uncover the terrifying secret of her friend's death. And the next life she must fight to save will be her own.
- Extract, chapter 1
- FIRST CUT
- A tough professional addicted to the adrenaline rush of life-and-death emergency medicine, Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe has already crossed paths with the faceless, cold-blooded psychopath whom the press has named "the Babydoll Killer." She knows what he is capable of, having seen his gruesome handiwork close-up. She survived. Others were not so lucky.
- Extract, chapter 1
- UNNATURAL CAUSES
- For Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe, home is a refuge from the frenzy and blood of the ER. But then a would-be murderer invades the sanctuary, leaving a colleague near death after ingesting poison in Evelyn's Manhattan apartment - a lethal surprise that may have been intended for Dr. Sutcliffe herself. As chaos threatens to engulf her professional and personal worlds and as sordid secrets about the friends and coworkers she thought she knew suddenly begin to come to light, Evelyn Sutcliffe realizes that she must trace a murderous evil - an evil that could be lurking perilously close to her: in the halls of University Hospital, and perhaps in the ER itself. Even outside her bedroom door.
- Extract, chapter 1
