Former U.S. Navy SEAL, Jake Palmer, is searching for something to fill the void in his life, a void present since he left the Navy ten years earlier. Neither his previous work as a corporate attorney nor his string of short-term personal relationships filled the indefinable emptiness. When a former colleague at B&A Pharmaceuticals asks Palmer to investigate the deaths of a physician researcher and his nurse in a car crash in southwest England, he is reluctant but accepts the assignment. Palmer is teamed with Fiona Collins, a tenacious B&A research auditor. Collins believes Palmer’s role is to observe and assist her in auditing the deceased physician’s clinical research records, assistance she neither needs nor wants. While Palmer believes the sooner Collins completes her audit, the sooner he can commence his investigation into the deaths.

i really enjoyed this mystery novel. I liked Jake Palmer and learning about him, it really gave an edge to this book over others.

Unfortunately, the plot in this book isn't much to write about (pun intended), and so the story is mostly long and unnecessary descriptions. The writing is OK, so if you are only looking for some waste of time, this book is adequate. Exciting it is not.

Good book! Plenty of action, intrigue, suspense, and a great storyline! This book kept my interest and while it was a good book and I would definitely recommend reading it, it wasn't my top favorites but! I really did enjoy reading this book! Its well worth reading! Thank you Netgalley and thanks publishers for sharing this book with me!

Thrillers are one of my favourite genres, and I especially enjoy the Nick Stone and the Paul Richter series. Both series gain from the fact that their authors know part and parcel about various aspects of their character's lives. The same can be said for Ron McManus. He wasn't a Navy Seal like his hero Jake Palmer, but he was in the Navy - and a pharmaceutical researcher. And since this thriller sees Jake Palmer investigating the death of a researcher and his nurse, there's a lot of pharmaceutical content here that just feels natural and authentic.

But the book starts - as every good thriller should - with a bit of action. A very satisfying intro into the book, indeed. I felt right at home.

If you take this information into account as well as the title of the book, it might be obvious to you we're talking a sexual related drug here, the female version of Viagra. The question of course is: How far will some people (who said Big Pharma?) go to make evidence that their newest superdrug might cause averse reactions vanish? With billions of dollars in revenue at stakes, the answer might be obvious: Some people will walk over corpses.

Our heroes soon have to face a harsh reality: Someone in the higher ranks is not playing nice, but whom can they trust? As a reader, you will have a little more insight into the other players as the protagonists, but I had the nagging feeling the author led me on here. I was sure there was someone else behind the curtain. But it speaks high volume to McManus's skill that he's able to lead the reader that way.

In the end, he gives the cards away by telling too soon who's behind it, thereby stealing a little bit of suspension. But then again, it's a thriller, not a mystery.

*****

This book is a page turner (took me two days to read it). But some of the expected twists were kind of foreseeable, at least to genre buffs. A light read, perfect for vacation or a lazy weekend.