WOW!!! This is one fast paced read with so many twist that you don't see coming! The story will take you for the ride and never think you have it figured out cause when you do you have something else coming at you. Highly recommended!

Fatal Trauma is a fast-paced ride through a medical mystery, and as usual, it's a twisty, turny ride. Every time I figured out who the villain was, Mabry quickly proved me wrong. With medical issues, a drug cartel, and romance all on the table, there are new developments on every page.
Like many of Mabry's characters, Dr. Baker has a weak faith and his experiences challenge this throughout the story. He evaluates his decisions and grows his faith as well as his relationships with Nurse Atkinson.
If there's anything I'd like to change about the book, it's the depth of the characters. Information abounds about their actions and about their faith changes, but I'd like more personal information about them. My favorite characters are the ones that feel as if we could be friends, but I don't feel that way about these. Not because I dislike them, but because I feel as if I don't know them well enough. I'd just like to know more - more background, more likes and dislikes, more details.
On the other hand, I love the suspense and the surprises that Mabry builds into the plot. I haven't been able to guess the ending of any of his books yet before he reveals it, and those types of surprises just make a mystery. Mabry continues to rank high on my list of favorite mystery authors.

The timeliness of the story line was something that could be found in today’s headlines. There is a lot of violence in the book, along with some mildly graphic descriptions of injuries, so that might be a little too in depth for some readers. It wasn’t too much for me, though, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading Fatal Trauma.

“Nobody move!” starts Chapter 1, page 1 with a lone gunman holding a nurse hostage as he points a pistol against her head to force the emergency room doctor to help his brother who was shot.

Mark baker is dating Kelly Atkinson, the nurse held hostage and Anna King the surgeon whom he assisted in the emergency room on the police officer shot in a gun battle with the deceased perpetrator.

After a doctor involved with the treatment of the perpetrator’s brother dies, Mark believes he knows who is responsible and wonders if his and others involved that night are in danger.

Fatal Trauma is a good read but at times felt a little wordy. Dr. Baker’s relationships seemed awkward and unbalanced between Kelly and Anna.
Overall, I enjoyed the plot, suspense, and setting of this novel. I recommend to readers of medical, romance, and suspense novels.

I received this book from Abingdon Press through the Net Galley Book Review program in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission Guidelines.

Fatal Trauma is another addition to the awesome medical suspense books by Richard Mabry, M.D.! Being a doctor, the medical descriptions of hospital scenes, medicines, medical terms, job responsibilities of those in the medical field are real, and I always feel like I am in the middle of the scenes.

This story starts out with a bang, with a man entering the ER with his brother and a gun, threatening everyone that didn’t help save his brothers life he would kill them. Dr. Mark Baker’ main concern was Nurse Kelly Atkinson, especially since he had dated her and was attracted to her. But was this brother already dead? And the police shows up and the scene was not a pretty one. There are many twists and turns in this story, a lot going on that makes you wonder just how many people are running with the bad guys, to many people are losing their lives. The police need to get to the bottom of this before anyone else gets hurt or loses their lives. And that’s all I will say about this book! Because its much more fun digging in to at book like this not knowing a thing about what is going on. And you know with Dr. Mabry, its going to be a killer read!

Dr. Mark Baker was in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

He was at work. In the busy Emergency Room at busy Memorial Hospital. That’s where it all started, and that’s where his life abruptly changed.

He just didn’t know it yet.

Writing in his traditional (read “edge of the seat, pulse-pounding suspense”) style, Dr. Richard Mabry brings his technical skills as a retired physician to yet another page-turner. As the book deals with life and death on various levels, Dr. Mabry also brings his faith.

Demonstrating once again that faith and life do not have to live in separate compartments, author Richard Mabry tells the tale of life and death, winning and losing, and most of all . . . the tale of love. Love for one another, and God’s love for all humanity.

He doesn’t preach. He doesn’t teach. He is a master at Show and Tell. A game that we all enjoyed when we were growing up has become a vehicle for entertaining readers, and impacting their lives. And they don’t even know it, yet!

5 stars for another inspirational journey from Dr. Richard L. Mabry!

Mr. Mabry writes great medical fiction! While he uses his expertise as a doctor to base his writing on it is never so far above the readers head that they feel like they need a doctorate to understand. His books are for anyone who enjoys a great medical drama!