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Irma's Endgame Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 19, 2019
- File size1967 KB
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"This was a fascinating, thought-provoking read. A wonderful, multi-layered read." Goodreads reviewer*****
"Mahurin skillfully leads us through twists and turn that frankly had meguessing until the very end. Great plotting and in-depthcharacterization makes this one stand out as one of her best!" Goodreads Reviewer*****
"At the heart of the story is love and an original and thought provokingidea about what makes us human. This is a good mystery with plenty of suspense that makes you want to keep turning the pages." Goodreads Reviewer*****
"What an incredible story. The suspense, the incredibly complex characters,the fact that it was so easy to relate to them and the fact that thestory was so realistic, after all, it could happen, all of these madethis story - un-put-downable." Goodreads Reviewer*****
"The author has used her experience in medicine to add great credibility and depth to the story. Highly recommended." Goodreads Reviewer*****
"I can highly recommend this read, as Mahurin tests the boundaries anddepth of friendship, loyalty, psychosis, betrayal and most importantly,of love. It is a triumphal departure from her usual genre for thisincredibly talented author." Goodreads Reviewer*****Writing at its best. Fascinating twists involving medical advancements that leave the reader stunned. *****RM, attorney
About the Author
Paulette Mahurin is a best-selling literary fiction and historical fiction novelist. She lives with her husband Terry and two dogs, Max and Bella, in Ventura County, California. She grew up in West Los Angeles and attended UCLA, where she received a Master's Degree in Science.
Her first novel, The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap, made it to Amazon bestseller lists and won awards, including best historical fiction 2012 in Turning the Pages Magazine. Her second novel, His Name Was Ben, originally written as an award winning short story while she was in college and later expanded into a novel, rose to bestseller lists its second week out. Her third novel, To Live Out Loud, won international critical acclaim and made it to multiple sites as favorite read book of 2015. Her fourth book, The Seven Year Dress, made it to the top ten bestseller lists on Amazon U.S., Amazon U.K. and Amazon Australia. Her fifth book, The Day I Saw The Hummingbird, was released in 2017 to rave reviews. Her sixth book, A Different Kind of Angel, was released in August, 2018, also to rave reviews. Her seventh book, Irma's Endgame, was released in spring of 2019.
Semi-retired, she continues to work part-time as a Nurse Practitioner in Ventura County. When she's not writing, she does pro-bono consultation work with women with cancer, works in the Westminster Free Clinic as a volunteer provider, volunteers as a mediator in the Ventura County Courthouse for small claims cases, and involves herself, along with her husband, in dog rescue. Profits from her books go to help rescue dogs from kill shelters.
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- ASIN : B07QZM22W3
- Publisher : Early Girl Enterprises, LLC (April 19, 2019)
- Publication date : April 19, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 1967 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 296 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,402,514 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #25,532 in Crime Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #68,621 in Crime Thrillers (Books)
- #544,958 in Literature & Fiction (Kindle Store)
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About the author
Paulette Mahurin is an award winning international best selling literary fiction and historical fiction novelist. She lives with her husband Terry and two dogs, Max and Bella, in Ventura County, California. She grew up in West Los Angeles and attended UCLA, where she received a Master’s Degree in Science.
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- Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2019I rarely finish reading a book within three days and Irma’s Endgame broke my record. Not only I couldn’t put it down but also thought about it when I wasn’t reading it. I have so many good things to say about it. First of all, the writing is superb and it’s full of vivid imageries and metaphors. I can easily picture all the characters, feel their dilemmas, and even smell them. The author explores each character’s emotional journey and psychological development, and I sympathize with them. Peter is an accomplished heart surgeon but is trapped in an unhappy marriage. Amelia is a wealthy housewife but also tormented by her childhood trauma. Irma has her success and loss but she strives to help others. Ben is a loyal friend. The writer’s confident writing style drew me in right from the first paragraph. The mystery part is less important to me, but it certainly helps speed up the reading. There are many fascinating issues being touched upon in the story including the personality change resulting in organ transplant. It’s also a multi-genre literary work that has elements of romance, mystery, and thriller. I highly recommend it!
- Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2019The media could not be loaded.
I don’t like to review with spoilers and that is a hard thing to do with this multifaceted story-line in which one explores dynamics in unique relationships. The kind of encounters that fate thrust upon people with no warning or expectation.
As the characters suffer, as a reader I felt their pain. When they found light, I did as well. I cannot stop thinking of so many aspects in the story-line.
I took a four-hour train ride after I finished the book and found myself talking to a fellow traveler, a stranger, about cellular memory as explored in this storyline. He wrote down the book’s title. I know in the next few weeks I will Google it often!
The story takes place during the course of several years. This was written with a clever backdrop of global events, as a reader it placed me right there.
The type of brilliant book that is thought provoking and lingers on long after one reads the last page.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2019I first discovered Paulette Mauhrin’s work when I stumbled across The Day I Saw The Hummingbird (if you have not read this – buy now! – it is fantastic) and knew this would be an author to watch. Irma’s Endgame, while in a different genre, is also full of beautiful prose. The characters are all well described and Mauhrin does a great job of putting you inside their heads. I was most drawn to Peter, Amelia, and Jeffery. I liked how current events were weaved into the story; I think it always makes it more interesting and easier to identify with. For me, there wasn’t a great deal of suspense because of the amount of exposition and at times I found myself skimming past parts to get back to dialogue or action. But for readers who want lots of wonderful description and internal thought, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed with this story. 3.75/5 Stars
- Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2019A mysterious death and sensational headlines sends two families into chaos in this well crafted, well-written fast-paced medical/legal mystery. What starts out as an ordinary day for an attorney, Irma, is anything but when she sees the front page of the Los Angeles Times screaming that her ex has been charged with murder. Her ex is an international heart-transplant surgeon, Peter Dayton, with an unblemished record. When Irma sets out to help exonerate Peter, she elicits the help of two of her best friends: another attorney and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Through a road that leads to one dead end after another, Irma refuses to give up when Peter espouses his innocence. But when no other suspects show up on the horizon and Irma's team starts to doubt Peter's veracity, she is not deterred. Refusing to give up, it is in Irma's search for the truth that she discovers that reality isn't always what we "think" or "believe" it is. And in constructing solid data that would stand up in court, Irma discovers that sometimes you have to start with the unseen, an intuition and follow your gut despite all temptation not to. It is her faith in this unknown element of existence that Irma, along with her two friends, walk the path against resistance to find that the road to truth is filled with decoys and detours. And the answer she finds is not what she anticipated. Right to the end, we don't know if Dayton did it. Were Irma's efforts all in vain? Was she a puppet to some insane manipulation? Or was she onto something incredible? No spoilers here. This was a compelling, hard-to-put-down read. Entertaining and educating for I learned some amazing things about modern-day medicine regarding heart-transplant patients. Great read!
- Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2019This book was my first Paulette Mahurin novel, and I can’t wait to read her other books. It is always nice to find another author to add to my favorites list.
Between her blurb and other reviews, there is plenty of information that summarizes the story and so I will express my views on her writing.
I found that, at its heart, Irma’s Endgame was a good story with a solid plot line. Her characters were deep and enjoyable, and they became more real to me as the story unfolded. The situation that the characters found themselves in was believable, and the way that they worked through it was interesting and very enjoyable. Her writing style made for an easy read and I had no difficulty following the action.
Weaving the mystery of a legal case with the subtlety of a second chance romance, this book kept me involved with the story from start to finish.
I will definitely read more!
Top reviews from other countries
- Author Elizabeth EckertReviewed in Canada on June 28, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars A definite must read!
Irma's endgame is an engaging, descriptive and complex tale of lives that will become intertwined in ways you would not expect. The mystery is captivating, edgy and keeps you turning pages! The solid editing, great characters, and suspense make this a must read book for those who love medical mysteries. The lost-love theme is so well done as well. All around a great novel to enjoy!!
- Wilma LettingsReviewed in the United Kingdom on May 8, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast paced, engaging and thought-provoking
From the pen of one of my favourite authors comes a rivetting thriller with explosive tension, heart break and excellent twists.
It's hard to describe the enormous value of this book without giving away plot twists and some of the surprises that hit me so hard while reading this book.
Irma is a lawyer who takes on the seemingly hopeless case of her ex-boyfriend, a surgeon on trial. Set in the world of heart transplants the book touches on many deeper issues and philosophical questions related to organ donation.
Woven into this are complex characters and strange personal developments between the characters that come together in a truly unbelievable denouement. Mahurin never lets up the tension and drama, pushes us to think about ethics and surprises us with facts and connections I never saw coming.
Fast paced, engaging and thought-provoking, informative on a medical level and satisfying on an emotional level this is Mahurin at her best. While I perferred her historical novels in the past, I feel the medical thriller genre has found a new kid on the block to watch out for.
Highly recommended.
- jeanniellReviewed in France on April 29, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars The heart of the matter
What if the human heart was not just a mechanical pump in the body, an organ with purely physiological properties? What if it were something altogether more complex and mysterious?
When renowned transplant surgeon Peter Dayton removes the heart from the victim of a road traffic accident, Lexi Parkhouse, and transplants it into the dying body of Jeffrey Kincaide, a chain of events is set in motion with devastating consequences. In the sumptuous Bel Air mansion that is home to the wealthy Kincaide family, the couple’s previous domestic harmony turns sour as Jeffrey recuperates with his new heart. Initially overcome with gratitude at the miraculous intervention that saved her husband’s life, Amelia Kincaide, becomes increasingly disturbed by what she perceives as abnormal changes in him, changes that inspire suspicion and hatred. At the same time, Lexi’s grieving widower, Randolf Parkhouse, is struggling unsuccessfully to get over the loss of the woman he loved. In an attempt find solace, he starts to explore far-fetched, quasi-spiritual notions about communion with the dead, becoming gradually convinced that he is still somehow connected to his wife, whose presence lingers on earth through the heart which now beats in the chest of Randolf.
Unaware of all this, surgeon Peter Dayton continues to operate. He is a man who, on the surface, has everything–money, prestige, a brilliant career and international reputation–but, apart from his job and his affection for his dog, Bella, he is carrying out a meaningless existence in a loveless marriage, consumed by regret for the woman he loved and lost years ago through his own bad choices. Unknown to him, that woman, Irma Mullins, is about to enter his life once more when she opens a newspaper and reads that her former lover has been arrested on charges of killing one of his patients. ‘Involuntary manslaughter…’ Shocked to the core, Irma has no doubt as to her ex-lover’s innocence, and, convinced he is the victim of a vendetta, determines to clear his name.
What starts as a classic, suspenseful whodunnit gradually turns into something far more complex and multi-layered. Author Paulette Mahurin puts her characters under the microscope, scrutinising what is going on in their ‘hearts’ in the wider sense of the term, dissecting in forensic detail the way they live, their innermost feelings and passions, how their backgrounds have shaped their personalities, the motivations behind their behaviour and, more immediately, their reactions as events unfold with a frightening inevitability, sweeping them along like a flash flood. The tempestuous rumblings in their personal stories are eerily mirrored in what is happening on a planetary scale. Global political and economic upheaval, growing social divides in Western societies, the devastation raging in war torn countries, the apparent increase in extreme weather events–all these contribute to an ominous feeling that the world is off kilter, out of balance, chaotic. We sense that things are slipping beyond our control, our belief in the rational, the scientific, the provable, is shaken, our certainties over-turned. As Irma remarks, becoming more and more stressed by the agonising drag of the legal process and the seeming impossibility of altering its course, it is ‘like trying to mold pottery with over-wet material while in handcuffs.’ The tension builds as the characters react to the growing pressure (I found myself experiencing sympathetic stomach pains), with even those most convinced of Peter’s innocence, including himself, beginning to have doubts.
By crafting such detailed portraits of her characters and their growing emotional turmoil, Mahurin anchors her story in the real, the every-day, and is thus able to give credibility to the incredible, when at last Irma’s team begin to make progress, discovering a thread which, unbelievable as it may appear, offers a chance of building a solid case in Pete’s defence: ‘a small, barely visible thread that (leads) to a Sherman tank.’
It’s impossible to do justice to all the admirable qualities of this author’s latest work in a short review. Suffice it to say that that ‘Irma’s Endgame’ is one of those books which not only keeps us captivated until the last page, but also prompts us to ask questions about our own lives, the mistakes we make, the paths we choose and their validity, and our dimly perceived apprehension of the greater truth behind Hamlet’s words: ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy.’
- melReviewed in Canada on June 12, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars A rekindled flame during a frame up
Irma's end game is a interesting read. Never to late to find something with the one that got away. The wealthy elite cardiac surgeon learns who his true friends are when he is framed for murdering one of his patients. It is a who Dunn it with only the barest of threads to follow
- Helen DevriesReviewed in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars A legal thriller with a difference, written with distinction
I have the author's previous books, which portray matters of social interest in historical settings, and appreciate her style of writing, so was keen to see what a book in a different genre would bring forth.
I was not disappointed!
I had never heard of personality transfer in transplant cases, but as Irma the lawyer forges on in her attempt to save her first love, a distinguished heart surgeon, from accusations of murder, this proves to be, dare one say, at the heart of the matter, where a transplant case gives rise to personality change and the consequences which this has on famly and others....leading to murder.
Well drawn characters...the author is tops at showing rather than telling.....who bear you along with them as the story unfolds in a context which first of all appears to the layman to be incredible but which becomes all too real.
A great read.
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