by Frank E. Hopkins (Author)
The premature heart failure of the matriarch, Mary, tore the Jewel family apart. Mary's children and her cardiologist did not accept that Mary had died a natural death. Brian, Mary's son, clinically depressed by his mother's death, recruited detectives Hoffman and O'Hare to discover who murdered Mary. A decade earlier, an immoral physician had enslaved her daughter, Eve, into opioid addiction - Mary's death awoke a long simmering hatred.
Eve independently imposed her retribution on the pharmaceutical industry risking life in prison. Eve's revenge involved cyber techniques to identify, locate, and track her victims. Eve mentally struggles with being caught and losing her lover or continuing her self-justified revenge.
The detectives discover Mary's killer might have participated in other murders related to counterfeit drugs. They pursue the serial killer as he and his lover flee the police. The interstate search for the murderer leads to a fatal car chase through steep and dangerous mountain roads. Who will survive?
The Counterfeit Drug Murders is the third novel in the Hoffman and O'Hare Mystery Series. Readers of this pharmaceutical thriller/mystery have stated: it is riveting, could not put the book down, very timely story ... in the midst of the opioid crisis, and easy to read.