The fifty-something pharmacy manager at the Food Go in Scottsdale, Arizona, Ruthie Kantor Morris enjoys nothing better than dishing dirt with her waitress friend Denise. But sometimes the gossip turns grim...... Harry Stokes is their latest favourite scandal. The elderly gentleman has been coming to Ruthie for male potency hormones ever since his recent marriage to a woman a fraction of his age. But when the old swinger dies abruptly - a victim of lethally misused medicine - his grumbling grown kids point their accusing fingers at the baby bride. Ruthie, however, has her doubts. And a second murder much too close for comfort convinces the inquisitive pharmacist to look for a fatal family secret hidden somewhere in her prescription records.

Still practising in Tannochbrae, Finlay's reputation has spread throughout the West of Scotland. But fame and reputation bring their own problems, especially when a new hotel opens nearby and Finlay is beset with the many ailments of its wealthy residents. And then with the sudden illness of Dr Cameron and the arrival of Grace Macfarlane, Finlay's old love, matters become even more complicated, culminating in a vicious and libellous attack on him by the local newspaper.

Was it murder? Was it horribly botched surgery, an accidental malpractice? Was someone in the great Boston medical centre violating the Hippocratic Oath? Only one doctor is willing to push his way through the mysterious maze of hidden medical data and shocking secrets to learn the truth.

Dr Mike Richmond has just joined Connecticut's most prestigious medical practice. For the brilliant young surgeon, it is a career-making opportunity. But it comes with a chilling price. It begins with a critical error in judgment that puts a woman's life at grave risk. Then a patient inexplicably dies. As more and more people meet suspicious deaths - and Mike is blamed - he realises he's a crucial link in a diabolical conspiracy that runs deeper than he could ever imagine.....

Jon, Rick and Jen share takeaway food rituals, sporadic cocktail nights and the quest for love. Rick seems destined to long lonely nights beneath his Porky Pig doona. Jen consumes men like chocolate bars. And Jon gets lucky in a way he's never expected - more women than he knows how to handle. A young doctor with grand plans for the hormone of darkness, he finds his life spiralling way out of control.