Playing God (a Joe Burgess Mystery Book 1)

<b>Joe Burgess is the most realistically drawn and memorable police detective I've encountered in years. This is as much a moral fable as it is a whodunit.</b> <i> ~Edward Morris Verified Reviewer</i><br><br>On an icy February night the body of Steven Pleasant a prominent Portland Maine physician grows cold in his parked Mercedes. All signs point to a john killed by a disgruntled hooker: his pants are unzipped wallet is gone and the good doctor has a reputation for entertaining girls in his car.<br><br>But the deeper Detective Sergeant Joe Burgess digs the muddier the case becomes. While juggling hookers wives ex-wives fathers stepfathers dealers and doctors a nurse on Pleasant's staff suggests another angle-disgruntled patients.<br><br>Now ensconced in the darkness of a sleeping hospital Burgess comes face-to-face with ghosts from his past and must decide what being a detective really means.<br><br><b>If Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch lived in Maine he'd be Joe Burgess.</b> <i>~Verified Reviewer</i><br><br><b>It was the emotion that gripped me as a reader and as a person. Kate Flora has accomplished what very few authors are able to do she made me believe.</b><i> ~Michael S. Verified Reviewer</i><br><br><b>THE JOE BURGESS MYSTERIES</b><br><i>Playing God<br>The Angel of Knowlton Park<br>Redemption<br>And Grant You Peace<br>Led Astray<br>A Child Shall Lead Them<br>A World of Deceit</i><br>