With a vengeance - Eileen Dreyer

Maggie O'Brien is a medic on a SWAT team in St Louis who has always lived in the shadow of her father, a famous - some would say notorious - cop.

But Maggie has begun to suspect that there is something seriously wrong within the city's emergency services. On the back wall of the nurses' lounge there is a list that names every person who has ever annoyed the staff, police or paramedics in the city. Only what has started as a way for overworked people to let off steam has taken on quite sinister connotations. For a growing number of the city's lowlifes and criminals are turning up dead, often after receiving non-life-threatening injuries after skirmishes with the police. Their only other link - a guest appearance on the nurses' infamous wall.

But if someone is dispensing their own brand of rough justice in the city, Maggie isn't entirely sure where her loyalties lie...

Eileen Dreyer was a trauma nurse for sixteen years on two of the busiest Ers in St Louis County and also trained as a medic on a SWAT team; her experiences lend vivid detail and lifelike realism to the story.

Better than anyone I've ever read.
Robert Crais

I raced through this thriller devouring every page. I just couldn't get enough of heroine Maggie O'Brien.
Tess Gerritsen

A smart, provocative, page-turning thriller. An absolutely terrific, hair-raising read.
Tami Hoag.