Strange Medicine
Dr. Maxwell Thornton Murder Mysteries
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Narrated by:
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Matt Haynes
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By:
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S.C. Wynne
About this listen
Dr. Thornton isn't a murderer. He's just a grump with a body in his pool.
Maxwell Thornton isn’t really a people person, but that never mattered to him because he’d lived for his career. After losing a patient during an operation, he’s shaken and afraid to pick up the scalpel again. He resigns his position in the city and takes a job as sole GP in the isolated town of Rainy Dale, Texas, population 1,001.
Rainy Dale is populated with eccentrics who test his patience and seem to think he’s not only there to treat their illnesses, but that he’s also there to hold their hand and be their therapist. When one of his most annoying patients ends up dead and floating in Maxwell’s pool, he has some explaining to do to the local sheriff.
Sheriff Royce Callum is intelligent, determined, and more attracted to the new doctor than he would like. He can’t imagine Maxwell is a murderer, but he also can’t exactly ignore a corpse in the sexy doctor’s pool.
©2018 S. C. Wynne (P)2022 S. C. WynneWhat listeners say about Strange Medicine
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Bee May
- 25-09-2022
bitterly disappointing epilogue
honestly the only reason i didnt give this 2 stars is that i really enjoyed the story. it's a shame the blatant fatphobia in the epilogue ruined the whole book for me.
There are SO many signs of ill health that could relate to greed/overindulgence(liver problems+ other signs of alcoholism, heart problems, lung ailments from smoking+sitting with a cigar in hand, etc) that making the ruthless rich man fat feels blatantly lazy.
Even if you were determined to make the man fat, it absolutely could have been written without describing his body as inherently unhealthy(Health At Every Size, please look it up) and grotesque.
Every phrase used to describe the man was clearly intended to portray someone disgusting, and for a main character to be a doctor and think of him that way, based on the size of his body ALONE was infuriating and triggering.
i'm so frustrated i'm going to be contacting SC Wynne about it, and attempting to return this book.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Wide Eyes, Big Ears!
- 09-12-2022
Loved this Doc Martin murder-mystery romance!!
Having lost his confidence after a patient dies during surgery, Dr Maxwell Thornton leaves the bustle of LA to be the GP of Rainy Dale, TX, pop. 1001. Not used to having conscious patients, Maxwell finds the inhabitants annoying, but not as annoying as being suspected of murder when one of them winds up dead in his pool. Luckily Sheriff Royce Callum has gotten to know and trust him. I really enjoyed this light murder/mystery romance! Maxwell is amusingly fussy and uptight but softens under Royce’s steady, down-to-earth influence. Given the name of the series, I was expecting Maxwell to do some amateur detecting, but Royce does the police procedural work and the mystery really unravels itself. That’s not to say it wasn’t totally satisfying, I loved it! Audio narrator Matt Haynes is new to me and I really appreciated the careful fussiness he injected into Maxwell’s speech and the laidback drawl of Royce.
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