Obsessions

by Janet Lane Walters

Romantic Suspense: When Susan Randall finds the body of the hospital's "gossip queen" in the orthopedic storage room, she is unaware she was the intended victim and the obsession of a stalker. Susan has her own obsession. The death of her over-protective husband has made her want to be independent.

196 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1999

About the author

"I am a nurse who's been spinning tales for years, especially when many of the people whose stories I tell are involved in the medical profession. Since dark nights on the front porch of the house where I lived and in the garage where my friends put on the plays I wrote, I've been a story-teller. That was my beginning and there were other steps along the way. Take third grade and my book report. I choose "Anna Karenina" and ended the book with these words; "She loved him so she threw herself under a train. There are a lot of things she could have done other than that dumb thing." After telling me I couldn't read that book, my teacher informed me I couldn't change the ending. My next experience with the world of critiquing came during my pursuit of a career as a nurse. I wrote a care study of a little boy I'd come to love. My instructor told me this was a scientific study and I should not have included emotional elements. After graduating, I married. My husband, a doctor, and I ended up in a small town where the Public Health service had a hospital. In the town was a small library. Within two months, I'd read every book and needed something to do. For Christmas, my husband bought me a typewriter and a ream of paper. Faced with a blank page, I began to write, badly at first. My first attempts were short stories, many published. Then I received a rejection that says this sounds like a synopsis of a novel. Once again, I learned. Three books and four children later, I returned to nursing to send those children to college. Once that was accomplished, I returned to exploring the world where I can change the ending, put in emotional elements and write the things I'd like to read."

Reviews

[Lynda Kelly · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was one I picked up under the title Code Blue. I don't know why so many authors when they release new editions choose to amend the title too.
It wasn't properly formatted for the Kindle as it was that tiny font again. I chose to give it a go, though. I got as far as 18% in when I packed it up.
Spelling mistakes like cull de sac as opposed to cul which is French so I'm sure is spelt the same way in Canada, missing apostrophes, the word feet suddenly appearing in italics and the last one I happened across was basked instead of basket.
I'm not prepared to carry on ploughing through something that clearly hasn't been properly edited, whether free or not. There are too many books out there !

[Mitzi]

New Title: 'Code Blue'