Fresh Frozen 
by Darden North M.D.

4.9 out of 5 stars – 8 Reviews
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( Ed. Note: I have always been impressed by doctors and lawyers who find a way to begin careers as novelists while carrying on their professional practices.Against the backdrop of their existing and presumably well-compensated careers, they are clearly driven by a tremendous passion to write, to tell stories, and to face the possibility of failure. I’m sure that many of them get nowhere as novelists and return to the practice of medicine or law. As Robin Cook likes to joke, if his books ever stop selling, he can always fall back on brain surgery. But every now and then we get a Cook or a Crichton or a Turow or a Grisham, and I for one have experienced a great deal of reading pleasure from those who have emerged as talented novelists. We might have enjoyed a lot less in the way of suspenseful legal thrillers if a Mississippi lawyer hadn’t had the resolve to travel around the South handselling self-published copies of A Time to Kill to indie booksellers out of the trunk of his jalopy back in the early 80s. And now we have another Mississipian, an ob/gyn doctor named Darden North, who is similarly resolved to make his mark as the author, so far, of three taut and well-constructed medical thrillers, including the title we feature today, Fresh Frozen. –S.W.)

After movie star Allyn Saxton survives a string of broken relationships, she enters a reproduction center to have a baby. Her plans of seclusion are misguided when an Internet spy breaks through the center’s security to steal her frozen embryos. But there is competition. A nearly-bankrupt policeman and his tormented wife are also patients, the wife so desperate for pregnancy that she plans to kill. Human reproductive tissue becomes a fatal commodity in Fresh Frozen.

And be sure to check out Darden North’s debut thriller, House Call, from which he has generously offered the substantial 16,000-word excerpt we provided in this weekend’s Free Kindle Nation Short.