Code Blues: Hope Sze medical mystery

Melissa Yi · Melissa Yuan-Innes

Hope Sze medical mystery Book 1 · Windtree Press

About this ebook

What if a brilliant killer stalks the halls of a Montreal hospital, and you're the only one who knows?

Dr. Hope Sze dives into her family medicine residency braced for anything from newborn babies to foot ulcers.

The one thing Hope doesn't expect? Murder.

Someone killed her supervising physician so cleverly that it looks like an accident.

Now Hope fights not only to save lives around the clock, but to unmask the killer, while two different but equally compelling men draw Hope into their own schemes.

Sex. Drugs. Doctors.

Written by a Derringer Award-winning emergency physician.

Because medicine can be murder.

"Drawing on her personal experiences in the ER in Canada, Yi has created medical thrillers that shine with authenticity and are impossible to put down. Code Blues provides the perfect introduction to a world we often experience, but rarely understand."

—Kris Nelscott, New York Times bestseller

Praise for the Hope Sze series

#1 Mystery Selection by CBC Books: Human Remains

One of the best crime novels of the season.—CBC Radio's The Next Chapter Mystery Panel, on Stockholm Syndrome

“The three intertwining mysteries and Hope herself provide a narrative by turns entertaining and insightful.”—Publishers Weekly, on Terminally Ill

"Narrating in a sprightly style while sharing some of the nitty-gritty of a resident's job, Hope Sze is an utterly likeable character.”—Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

"Melissa Yi is a talented writer."—Murder in Common

Ratings and reviews

I don't know what motivated the author to write this hatchet job on a great city. It would seem she was never there as the geography is all wrong. Hospitals in Montreal are not run down and dirty and the cty itself is clean and safe compared to most large cities. The Surete doesn't operate in Montreal which has its own force. Neither one of them devotes its time to shooting Black men. The author should be ashamed to have written this.

I enjoyed the writing style, but the character was woke and parroting the anti-police, minority victim narrative. Police do not shoot blacks disproportionately to other races. Leftist, lies and propaganda.

I didn't care for this book. Skipped past dozens of pages. Found Hope to be too erratic and weird. Would not consider purchasing book 2.

About the author

Melissa Yi is an emergency physician trained in the crumbling corridors of Montreal. http://www.melissayuaninnes.com/