Neil McMahon is a former Stegner Fellow whose short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Boxing's Best Short Stories, and other publications. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
"Hugh and Madbird, a western variation on the Spenser-Hawk pairing, trudge through some great scenery and a glaringly inadequate plot. Who knew Montana was home to so many red herrings?"
"A sprawling western saga, more Edna Ferber than Agatha Christie, from the author of the Monks medical mysteries (To the Bone, 2003, etc.). Readers with a taste for escalating violence, Native American ritual and intergenerational lust may stick around to the end."
"The medical jargon ('I need the hematocrit stat') and folderol about undetectable toxins that dominate the beginning are soon supplanted by smutty sexcapades. Choose your poison."
The day after breast augmentation, a beautiful woman becomes a beautiful young corpse when she winds up in San Francisco's Mercy Hospital.
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"A step down from Twice Dying (2000), as McMahon cribs his plot device from recent genetic-engineering headlines and strains to place poor Carroll Monks in the detective mode."
Medical student Stephanie Monks is assisting her physician father Carroll in the ER when a drug-overdose case is wheeled in.
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