Deadly Medicine

by Kelly Moore, Dan Reed

She killed for thrills. The sensational story of nurse Genene Jones shocked a nation as more than 30 children were murdered by an angel of mercy. This is the whole story, from the doctors that hired her to the trial that followed. Featured in Redbook. St. Martin's.

Genres: True Crime, Nonfiction

295 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Kelly Moore is a New York Times best-selling author, former civil litigator, and single mother of three.

Reviews

[Nikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm not even sure I have words for this woman. I absolutely believe she is guilty and it's hard for me to not think that maybe the same things she subjected these children to should be her means of death, but I guess rotting away in a prison will have to do. I don't believe in coincidences and the things that took place around this woman are simply astonishing. I admire the nurses who tried so hard to bring it to the attention of others and I sure wish someone would have listened to those with concerns before it reached the point of losing the lives of so many children. I understand that even in the 80's workplace gossip and drama were a thing, but we aren't talking about people just disliking someone for the sake of disliking them. We are talking about a pattern of behavior and the suspicion that something was being done to cause children to seize, go into cardiac or respiratory arrest, bleed profusely and, unfortunately, even die. FOLLOW UP ON IT. I appreciated the way the facts were presented in this book and how people from both sides were interviewed.

[Brooke · Rating 1 out of 5]

There are only four things I love of this book.
1. How the book takes a short time to read because it's small
2. The five new words I'm excited to use next year
3. Three very beautiful names
4. The obvious motive behind how Genene took lives of patients instead of care of patients. I could tell from her background that what Genene wanted, Genene got. What Genene wanted was to be the best nurse, and she didn't care if she was hurting babies and their families.
She may have put on a performance for everyone else, but she will never be the true crime star in my bookshelf.

[Jenelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought the beginning of the book was very intriguing. The last quarter of the book lost me though. I was more interested in reading the story and developing an opinion for myself than to read through the legal jargon and process of court events to have the author tell me the verdict. I will say this book seems to pull your heart out of your chest and it makes you want to scream at the main character and the people around her.

[Piper · Rating 1 out of 5]

I did not like the way the book was written. Jumping from one persons point of view to another each chapter was irritating and caused the story to lose its continuity. I couldn't even finish it.

[Mari Alaniz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holy Shit
Main two words I could use to describe the experience of reading this book. I found this book by chance in my grandmothers bookshelf while visiting not too long ago, found myself curious and grabbed it. from start to finish I could barely let go of the book for more than an hour, I read it when I woke up, on the bus to school, in lecture, on the bus home, even a few times in the bath. It was very hooking, and I could not stop until I figured out if Genene was Guilty or not.
I’ve noticed however, on here, the app says the book has 295 pages, mine has 561, and has a lot more of the details and transcripts from the actual trial, if you’re curious about this book, I’d heavily recommend trying to get the older print with the extra pages — unless you’re mainly looking at it for the hospital/medical aspect, then maybe not, the last 5 or so chapters were all just the trial. To me, it added a really nice perspective to the story, yes I mainly just wanted to know “guilty? Not guilty? How many years” but getting to actually read how each lawyer presented their case, how the witnesses spoke and what they said, really makes you feel a lot more involved and invested personally.
Throughout though start to finish, it was very captivating, incredibly interesting, definitely sensitive content, seeing what some of the babies looked like looking them up afterwards brought me to tears. I’d definitely check it out. Fuck Genene Jones

[Allie James · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.2/5

This is a really tough book to read because of the true events that occurred. I found it to be traumatizing and haunting, something I think about whenever I consider just how much power a nurse has over their patient, especially children.

I read some other reviews that the legal perspective was boring, but I actually found it very interesting. I would also remind you to prepare to be made angry by this book. The nerve of someone to commit these atrocities is mind-boggling.

Overall, very well-written but really quite disturbing.

[Rebecca M · Rating 3 out of 5]

While moderately interesting, there was a lot of... I would say "blah blah" happening. The first half wasn't too bad, but the jury section was mind numbingly boring. I suppose the idea was to set us up as if we were part of the jury, but basically it just force fed us everything we already read in the first half, but in a tight, factual manner. I skimmed the second half mostly, just to be done with it.

[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read most of this book and I was very intrigued by it, it was horrifying and fascinating. I honestly hope things have changed since then and this kind of thing is prevented from happening again.

[Stefanie Robinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is about nurse Genene Jones, who murdered over thirty children. I learned about her from a program about killer nurses, and I ordered this book right away. This book has the entire story from the second she was hired as a nurse, to the second the gavel smashed down on her fate. It was very interesting. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in nurses like this.

[Candace Gronek · Rating 4 out of 5]

A true story that just breaks your heart to read and makes you angry at the same time. Most never really know the true evil that exists in this world. This happened so omg ago, just imagine the evil now.

[Krystal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting book. Throughout the book I was shocked at the fact that a nurse could go against the Hippocratic Oath and murder innocent children. It's easy to hate the vulianous monster that is Genene Jones.

[Nancy · Rating 3 out of 5]

don't usually read 'true' crime but this was well written and documented

[Priscilla]

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