In the first book of the Prescription for Trouble series, “Code Blue” means more to Dr. Cathy Sewell than the cardiac emergency she has to face. It describes her mental state as she finds that coming back to her hometown hasn’t brought her the peace she so desperately needs. Instead, it’s clear that someone there wants her gone…or dead.

Cathy returns to her hometown seeking healing after a broken relationship, but discovers that among her friends and acquaintances is someone who wants her out of More...

Part Bones, part House, part Fabio, Little House on the Prairie, and not really as good as any of them. Few writers trying to do mystery and thriller but do it so it will be palatable for Joe Fundamentalist can pull it off, and Dr. Mabry, sadly, is the rule rather than the exception.

Dr. Cathy Sewell is returning to her home town of Dainger, Texas (yes, the town's name is Dainger - 'cheesy' flag to warn you that more of the same is to follow) to follow in her father's footsteps as a small town GP More...

CODE BLUE by Richard L. Mabry, M.D. was riveting. A must read!

Dr. Cathy Sewell has returned to her hometown to practice medicine, but is there someone in Dainger, Texas who wants her gone? And why? That’s the real question throughout the book. And with Cathy’s lack of trust in men, she doesn’t know if she can really put her faith in Will Kennedy, her former high school love and self-appointed lawyer, or Dr. Marcus Bell, Chief of Staff, with looks that could heal any broken heart.

Fearing mental i More...

A somewhat shallow but still satisfying romance/mystery. I read the Kindle version which is free. Mabry treats the subject of medical mystery with a convincing knowledge of medical jargon that doesn't come off feeling contrived.

Cathy is a young, attractive, blond doctor who returns to her home town of Dainger, Texas to start a private practice. Fresh out of medical school, she is fleeing the Dallas area to leave behind painful memories of a couple of bad relationships. She soon discovers that no More...

"Code Blue" is a fast-paced romantic suspense novel. It was, at it's core, about wrong perceptions of past events effecting how people viewed themselves and others in the present. The suspense was created by someone repeatedly trying to kill Cathy, various medical emergencies, and the tension in the various relationships.

The mystery was a who-done-it. I was pretty certain who did it from the moment we met the character, but it's pretty hard to fool me on mysteries anymore. I found it believable More...

CODE BLUE
By Richard Mabry

Dr. Cathy Sewell has written herself a prescription for trouble and doesn’t know it. Life has brought a drastic change to her and she returns to her hometown to set up a practice. However, this new life has rammed her causing bumps and bruises and makes her to wonder if someone is out to get her.

Just after moving in she is run off the road by a mysterious black SUV. This was just the first of a series of incidents setting off alarm. Her practice is off to a slow start a More...

If you liked watching House M.D., ER or Grey's Anatomy, read this book - highly recommended. This book has two main genres; thriller and Christian fiction.

Dr. Cathy's back to her hometown because she wanted to start a new life, to forget her pasts and to mend her broken heart from past failed relationships. She blames the Almighty for taking away her parents from her and she refuses to believe anymore. She has tried her best to enhance and advance her practicing in medicine only which it wasn't More...

First of all, I gotta tell you, Richard L. Mabry has been added to my "must read" authors list -- I loved this book! It's a very fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat, medical suspense, with a healthy dose of romance. Just what the doctor ordered *pun intended* to get me out of my reading slump. ;)

As y'all know, I'm not big on in-depth reviewing for mystery/suspense books as I don't want to give away any key, or surprise, elements of the story, but I'll do my best. Honestly, the synopsis from Amazon pre More...

When I think Christian fiction, I always automatically think female authors, and very rarely do I associate a male author. I think female authors because they create characters that are unforgettable and with whom I can undoubtedly relate to in some way or another. But I must confess and say that I am super pleased with Richard Mabry's work. Code Blue is a terrific start to a new medical series written by a highly talented male author.

In Code Blue, book 1 in the Prescription for Trouble series, More...

This is a suspense-romance book.

Cathy Sewell MD returns to her hometown of Dainger to start her practice. Once in town, someone makes an attempt on her life. In the meantime, Cathy is trying to deal with her emotions of her parents death and her mothers mental illness.

Right after the first attempt on her life, comes Will Kennedy, he was Cathy high school love. Also introduced in the story are several other people who have reason to not like Cathy and to start rumors about how she is not a good d More...

Cathy is a pretty new doctor who ends a relationship and goes home to start a family practice. To add injury to insult (literally), she gets in a wreck on her way home because someone tries to run her off the road. Her high school sweetheart helps her to the hospital and tries to renew their love, but another doctor wants her to himself. As she is trying to decide whether she wants another relationship or not, her life is threatened several more times and she begins to think someone wants her go More...

Okay, let me state this plainly! I did not finish this book. I just could not do it. The story was so poorly edited on my ebook edition that it was driving me insane. Also I found the story to be poorly written. The author had his main character asking all these questions about someone trying to kill her with no basis for writing them. Things that were supppose to be suspicious did not seem suspicious at all to me. Also the author did not seem to understand anything about the state of Texas. If More...

In the first book of the Prescription for Trouble series, “Code Blue” means more to Dr. Cathy Sewell than the cardiac emergency she has to face. It describes her mental state as she finds that coming back to her hometown hasn’t brought her the peace she so desperately needs. Instead, it’s clear that someone there wants her gone…or dead.

Cathy returns to her hometown seeking healing after a broken relationship, but discovers that among her friends and acquaintances is someone who wants her out of More...

This was another book I received via the Nook Free Fridays program, and another that I would not have picked up to read on my own.

When Cathy Sewell moves back to her hometown after a rough breakup with her fiance and attempts to open her own general practice, she discovers that someone is holding a grudge, going so far as to try to kill one of her patients in order to discredit her. Battling depression and the fear that she is developing a mental illness, Dr. Sewell is determined to discover who More...

This was a good book. It was a freebie on amazon.com

However, about a third of the way into the book the tone of it changed. First it was a book setting up the main character and background, along with the atmosphere. Then, about a third of the way into the book, there was a lot of "Jesus" talk. Not something like, 'oh we missed you at church today' but rather "Have you talked to Jesus about this" and there was a LOT of it. Since the author did such a great job of setting up the story, I wanted More...

Code Blue was a pleasant surprise. When Dr. Cathy Sewell returns to her hometown, she faces many challenges, including the shadow of her father's betrayal. But she soon finds out that not everything is what it seems. The author takes you on a trail that has some twists and turns but the surprise ending will really get you!

I thought the book was well written. There was romance, thriller and mystery all wrapped up in one. It starts off a little slow but really draws you in as you get further into More...

Writer Richard L. Mabry’s debut novel, Code Blue, opens with an accident. His main character
—Dr. Cathy Sewell—swerves to avoid an oncoming car and finds her world turned upside down. This accident is followed by other accidents as life batters Cathy until the last pages of this well-written novel It is a story of a woman struggling with the past while trying to find her place in a small rural town in Texas. It is a story of survival.

Richard Mabry, M.D., has taken a lifetime of experiences in the More...

I didn't read anything about the author or book beforehand, so I didn't realize it was a Christian novel. I was expecting a medical thriller. It was a light combo (a hint of being Nancy Drew like) of medical, romance, Christian (subtle, not preachy), amateur sleuth. I was neither disappointed or blown away. It was an entertaining book, one that I actually read the last 45% in one sitting. The quick and odd ending is what made it amateur sleuth for me. With a more thought out and not so fast endi More...

A long-time historical romance fan, I rarely read mysteries or suspense novels, but Richard Mabry’s book changed that. CODE BLUE swept me into the formerly unknown world of medical drama, but Dr. Mabry did such a great job making the technical aspects of his tale understandable that I was able to enjoy the story fully. I liked Dr. Cathy Sewell and felt for her from the outset. As the plot thickened and she found herself in increasing danger, I flipped the pages faster, eager to find out whodunit More...

Delicious, this medical novel. Other than the $.99 pocket versions, this is a solid, detective-like story.

That Cathy is being harassed is clear, but it is a mystery who’s doing it. The best thing is that I suspected a couple of people, but in the end I was still surprised. Smart writing!

I do not understand very well why the title is ‘Code blue’. I must admit that I read the Dutch, translated version, but the term ‘code blue’ does not appear in the book. I have no idea what it means.

I think this More...

Another Kindle freebie but one I kept to read as I had already read one of his and enjoyed it. It's part of his Prescription For Trouble series and was the first one but featured differing characters so that wasn't a problem.
In this one a lady doctor is returning to her smalltown home to open up a general practice and encounters allsorts of difficulties as it seems somebody is purposely trying to scupper her chances.
He does mention a bit of "godly" stuff and I'm a heathen but it wasn't too over- More...

I love this book! I have no great understanding in either medical or law and am fascinated with the detail of both. This is a suspense novel with a mystery of who is trying to kill or force the new young female doctor out of her hometown that she has just moved back to. It deals with a female struggling to make it in a small town as a doctor and her struggles to accept her life. I love the way she learns to rely on God in her life again. She becomes a stronger and better person.
It is very clean More...

They say that you can't go back home, and that seems to be the case with Cathy. She's decided to go back home, to set up her Dr's office. But it seems that someone doesn't want her there, even to the point of trying to kill her. This is a Christian book, about a back-slidden Christian, and her struggles to stay alive & settle back home. She finds that her concepts of what Christians are like, are flawed, and the message is presented in a very "non-threatening" way. The mystery is why is ever More...

Thank goodness this one was a Kindle freebie....
Blah is the first thing that comes to mind about this book. It's supposed to be some fantastic medical mystery thriller, and I had high hopes, as it's written by a retired doctor. I was disappointed to say the least. The main character, while a practicing doctor, is a flake. The story line was poorly written. It had entirely too much unnecessary religious undertones. Just when I thought I was getting to the 'thriller' part of the book, it is ruined More...

This was an enjoyable, fast read that encompassed elements of mystery, Christianity, and love story. I enjoyed seeing the mystery unfold and was surprised in the end by the final culprit who was one among a plethora of suspects. The plot moved at a brisk enough pace to keep me engaged and wanting to pick up the book to read more. Although I don't ordinarily gravitate toward the love/romance genre, I thought that this aspect of the novel was minimal and did add to the story line. The themes of Ch More...

I was excited when this was the free book offered through Barnes and Noble a few weeks ago. However, it was terrible. I was looking forward to a medical thriller, but there was nothing thrilling about this book. Not only that, but it turns out that it has a huge religious underscoring throughout the whole book which I thought was frankly a little much and largely unnecessary. I have nothing against religion, but I don't need it thrust on me under the guise of a romantic medical thriller. I am gl More...

This is not a horrible book. Frankly I'm tired of books with gratuitous sex which isn't needed or wanted, and books that use the "F" word. I'm not going to put up with books like that anymore, the moment I run into it, it will be put down.

This book is clean, and it isn't a horrible mystery. It isn't a great one either, but not bad. For light reading I recommend it. I find it ended a bit quickly, it could have used a few more pages to tie up loose ends rather than the abrupt halt that it came to More...

Author did a good job of telling the story the daughter of a small-town physician who is now coming back to the small town as an adult and physician herself to practice. She has to deal with the skeletons in her family's closet, jealousies in a small town, insecurities in her own life, and a plot to drive her out of town or kill her, whichever happens to come first. Fairly good story with very few slow parts. Seemed a bit trite at times with religious platitudes written substituting for good wri More...

I stumbled upon this author, mainly because I was looking for "free" books for my Kindle. I really enjoyed this book and the third book in this series, as well. I haven't read the second book in the series yet. I enjoyed this author because it combines my love of mystery with Christian fiction. The older I get the more I appreciate reading good fiction that isn't filled with sex and bad language. This was a great Christian fiction mystery that was well-written and kept me entertained with each t More...

This was just so-so.

Dr. Cathy Sewell seeks to reset her life by heading to her hometown after dumping her cheating fiance. Of course, fresh out of med school she is up to her eyeballs in debt, plus starting a new practice as the only woman doctor in a town dominated by male doctors. Then there is the person trying to kill her patients and her.

This one was telegraphed the moment this killer popped into the picture. Then there was the hangdog former boyfriend ready to help boost Sewell's ego. An More...