The Parachute Plant

Doc Martin the sole physician in a depressed Oregon mill town looks after women making parachutes in a local factory. One under threat of losing her job becomes pregnant and turns to the doctor for help. He knows that the father a foreman has a contagious disease. When more young women are menaced Doc and his wife Charlotte attempt to intervene. Sheriff Walker cooperates and seeks their aid in a sadistic murder case. Other murders grizzly baffling also engage the couple. Suspects include the foreman''s wife her lover and a colorful drifter. Doc and Charlotte are distressed when Walker makes false arrests. Now they have a mission--to solve the crimes free the innocents and help bring the guilty to justice. The more they discover the greater the risk of falling prey to the killer. And the sheriff holding out for solid evidence compounds the hazard. Charlotte becomes the killer''s next target . . . Forensic medicine strength of character and heroic action drive the dramatic conclusion. The author Bill Carrigan had a rewarding career as a science writer and editor at the National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Now retired he lives in Sarasota Florida and writes fiction. Bill''s other books include Manic Seldom Go By The Runaway Clock Call Home the Child The Burden of Matter The Parachute Plant The Doctor of Summitville and Annabella and Other Stories. All are available on Kindle and as paperbacks on Amazon''s Create Space.