Deadly Medicine — Leonard S. Goldberg

It was more than sex. It was more than murder. It seemed clear that the savagely slain young women were victims of a hideously twisted serial killer. Their throats bore the teeth marks of his kiss of death bestowed before he took their lives. But even this depraved horror gave no hint of the evil that the brilliant and beautiful forensic pathologist Joanna Blalock and hard-bitten police detective Jake Sinclair would uncover in the labyrinth of unscrupulous medical ambition and raging human desire in a prestigious Los Angeles hospital. And as the list of victims lengthened, the time to stop the slaughter grew terrifyingly short, for Joanna had finally come face-to-face with a twisted killer eager to dispense another dose of Deadly Medicine.