Bloody Profits

by Thom Whalen

Financial Merriweather Pharmaceuticals stock has risen to record highs after the company earned record profits from their wildly successful acne medication, Lucepel, which is now being used by most American teenagers.
Medical Rates of fatal skin cancer have risen by almost fifty percent, mostly among teenagers. Doctors are warning everyone to use sunscreen whenever they spend time outdoors.
Local A scientist and his research assistant from Merriweather Pharmaceuticals have been murdered in an apparent love triangle. The scientist’s wife is missing.
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341 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 27, 2017

About the author

Thom Whalen studied experimental psychology at UCSD (B.A.), UBC (M.A.) and Dalhousie University (Ph.D.). After working for the Government of Canada conducting research on the human factors of computer networks for thirty years, he retired to begin a new career writing fiction.

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