Kurtz and Barent Mystery Series: Books 7-9
(2025)(A book in the Kurtz and Barent Mystery series)
An omnibus of novels by Robert I Katz
Books 7 through 9 in the Kurtz and Barent mystery series, now available in one convenient volume!
Surgeon Richard Kurtz has a reputation at Easton Medical Center as a tough guy, a reputation that he considers absurd, despite the 300-pound biker on a drug induced rampage who Kurtz recently knocked out in the ER. Kurtz has a growing practice, a luxury apartment on the East Side of Manhattan and a beautiful fiancée.
Lew Barent has seen a lot of dead bodies in his job as a homicide detective. Barent has chronic migraine headaches, a wife and daughter he dotes on, a son-in-law he can barely stand and a job that he's looking forward to leaving.
Fate, and murder, have brought Kurtz and Barent together, but it turns out that the two men, seemingly so different, have a lot in common: they don’t pull their punches, they never give up, they have an obsessive need to see justice served, and neither runs from a fight.
In Kingpin: No one expected Marty Blanton, a well-known Broadway composer and Kurtz’ recent patient, to wind up with a bullet through his head. Was it suicide or was it murder? Lew Barent thinks it was murder, and the physician detective, Kurtz cannot resist trying to untangle a murder mystery that involves organized crime, sex-trafficking and entrenched corruption in the NYPD.
In Bait and Switch: Surgeon Peter Levinson is disturbed. He’s not sleeping at night. He’s going out at all hours. He’s visibly distressed. Levinson, it turns out, has reasons to be distressed. An old friend, lawyer Richie Capaldi, has suffered a traumatic brain injury. Two other old friends have vanished…and then Peter Levinson is given an ultimatum by mobster Leo Berlusconi to pay back money that Berlusconi claims Levinson owes him. Lew Barent and Harry Moran are investigating the assault on Richie Capaldi and Richard Kurtz has information that might help them solve the case. Kurtz is not a cop, as his cop friends keep reminding him, and he has no desire to interfere with a police investigation, but Kurtz has never run from a fight, and when the threats against Peter Levinson escalate, Kurtz, Barent and Moran find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy involving prostitution, fraud, blackmail and long-simmering revenge.
In Adverse Outcome: Strange things are happening in the small world of Easton Medical Center, things that Kurtz has difficulty explaining. An elderly patient was found dead in his bed after a minor procedure. A healthy middle-aged woman has died in a plastic surgeon's office after a routine facelift and a third patient has suffered a cardiac arrest in the Recovery Room from an apparent overdose of potassium chloride. Were these adverse outcomes merely unfortunate accidents or is something much more dire going on? Kurtz and Barent are determined to find out, and they soon find that delving too closely into what appear to be a simple series of unfortunate mishaps can shake the small world of Easton Medical Center to its core, and incidentally put both their lives in danger.
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Genre: Mystery
Surgeon Richard Kurtz has a reputation at Easton Medical Center as a tough guy, a reputation that he considers absurd, despite the 300-pound biker on a drug induced rampage who Kurtz recently knocked out in the ER. Kurtz has a growing practice, a luxury apartment on the East Side of Manhattan and a beautiful fiancée.
Lew Barent has seen a lot of dead bodies in his job as a homicide detective. Barent has chronic migraine headaches, a wife and daughter he dotes on, a son-in-law he can barely stand and a job that he's looking forward to leaving.
Fate, and murder, have brought Kurtz and Barent together, but it turns out that the two men, seemingly so different, have a lot in common: they don’t pull their punches, they never give up, they have an obsessive need to see justice served, and neither runs from a fight.
In Kingpin: No one expected Marty Blanton, a well-known Broadway composer and Kurtz’ recent patient, to wind up with a bullet through his head. Was it suicide or was it murder? Lew Barent thinks it was murder, and the physician detective, Kurtz cannot resist trying to untangle a murder mystery that involves organized crime, sex-trafficking and entrenched corruption in the NYPD.
In Bait and Switch: Surgeon Peter Levinson is disturbed. He’s not sleeping at night. He’s going out at all hours. He’s visibly distressed. Levinson, it turns out, has reasons to be distressed. An old friend, lawyer Richie Capaldi, has suffered a traumatic brain injury. Two other old friends have vanished…and then Peter Levinson is given an ultimatum by mobster Leo Berlusconi to pay back money that Berlusconi claims Levinson owes him. Lew Barent and Harry Moran are investigating the assault on Richie Capaldi and Richard Kurtz has information that might help them solve the case. Kurtz is not a cop, as his cop friends keep reminding him, and he has no desire to interfere with a police investigation, but Kurtz has never run from a fight, and when the threats against Peter Levinson escalate, Kurtz, Barent and Moran find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy involving prostitution, fraud, blackmail and long-simmering revenge.
In Adverse Outcome: Strange things are happening in the small world of Easton Medical Center, things that Kurtz has difficulty explaining. An elderly patient was found dead in his bed after a minor procedure. A healthy middle-aged woman has died in a plastic surgeon's office after a routine facelift and a third patient has suffered a cardiac arrest in the Recovery Room from an apparent overdose of potassium chloride. Were these adverse outcomes merely unfortunate accidents or is something much more dire going on? Kurtz and Barent are determined to find out, and they soon find that delving too closely into what appear to be a simple series of unfortunate mishaps can shake the small world of Easton Medical Center to its core, and incidentally put both their lives in danger.
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Genre: Mystery
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