Leonard Goldberg Books In Order

Publication Order of Joanna Blalock Books

Publication Order of The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries Books

Publication Order of Dr. David Ballineau and Carolyn Ross Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Cozy Case Files Mystery Sampler Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

Besides writing novels, Leonard Goldberg is also a consulting physician and is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the UCLA Medical Center. He is highly sought after in medical malpractice trials as an expert witness, and board certified in rheumatology, internal medicine, and hematology. Goldberg has also published many scientific studies in all kinds of peer-reviewed journals.

After his first novel, which was published with the title of “Transplant” (which was released in the year 1980), was successful with both critics and readers alike his career as a novelist was born. The idea for the story of “Transplant” came from his clinical interest in different blood disorders. He found out about a very odd blood type, one that would make the patient able to donate her blood to anyone without any transfusion reaction issues (basically a universal donor). The red blood cells were O-Rh null, meaning they were lacking in A, B, and Rh factors.

He is from the city of Charleston, Virginia (by hearing the accent he speaks with, you will know that he really is) and has lived in California for a long time, spending time in Los Angeles and on an island near South Carolina. He was born in the year 1936.

Goldberg writes medical thrillers, like the “Joanna Blalock” series (which have become international bestsellers) and the “Ballineau/Ross Medical Thriller”series. Goldberg has also written some stand alone novels. His work has been selections of book clubs in French and the Czech Republic, Book of the Month Club, and The Mystery Guild. People featured some of his book in their Page Turner of the Week section, and as part of the International Book Fair in Budapest. Novels he has written has been translated into many foreign languages and have sold more than a million copies all over the world.

“Deadly Medicine” is the first novel in the “Joanna Blalock” series and was released in the year 1992. Someone is killing the nurses at a distinguished Los Angeles hospital and Joanna Blalock decides she should investigate.

She gets thrown into a web of lies and danger that puts her up against a killer that may be her own boss.

Some tried to figure out who the killer was, who was not revealed until the end, and were wrong about the killer. Quite an enjoyable read that went by really fast, some even felt they were trying to read slower to savor the ride. Fans of the novel found these to be pretty exciting and get right to the point; some were able to finish in just two days after being unable to put it down.

“A Deadly Practice” is the second novel in the “Joanna Blalock” series and was released in the year 1994. Joanna is now looking for a doctor that is killing doctors.

This killer has quite the grudge against the doctors at one of the hospitals in Los Angeles and is able to imitate the specialties of his victims. This killer is going around the hospital’s halls and Joanna must stop him before he kills her next.

Some felt this was a great way to spend their reading time, as they enjoyed the entire ride and want to read more from this series. Fans of the novel found this to be well written, and it left them guessing until the very end of the book. The novel was written in such a way that made it near impossible to figure out who the killer was. It is a top shelf read from the medical thriller genre.

“Deadly Care” is the third novel in the “Joanna Blalock” series and was released in the year 1996. The man has no fingerprints and no face. What is his name? And who killed him so brutally? Why have so many bone marrow patients died without a visible cause of death?

Joanna is plagued by these questions and more while she tries to put the faceless man’s face together with computers and guesswork. She is finally able to figure out the man’s identity and there is a link between him and the other deceased patients.

There is something very wrong here. With the help of Jake Sinclair (homicide investigator and an old lover of Joanna’s) she is able to put the clues together. They pile up and start pointing in all kinds of directions for her. The once great hospital is now full of scandal and suspicion; everyone seems to have something that they want to keep hidden. She is pulled into a game of death and lies by an enemy she has never seen and they know she knows far too much.

This story has a fast moving plot and readers enjoyed reading it; this was another book from this series that was hard to put down. Fans of the novel found this book to be a great ride and was intense and thrilling. Some readers were able to able read it in just one day. Some enjoy reading about main character Joanna, finding that she is a strong woman that is able catch killers like very few other detectives in fiction.

“Deadly Harvest” is the fourth novel in the “Joanna Blalock” series and was released in the year 1998. Joanna’s sister is diagnosed with a virus that is like Ebola, and it causes her liver to fail. Joanna then goes to an organization that is supposed to the very best at finding replacement organs for people.

She finds their true and much darker side when they get the very best transplants. As her sister is facing life or death and she might victim to an awful conspiracy that might shake the medical world’s foundation to its very core.

This series has all of the suspense and well drawn characters that you are able to sympathize with that you could want in a story. The story has all kinds of intrigue, dangerous moments, and excitement that make for good thrilling, mystery, and suspense stories. Fans felt that these books are compelling and diabolical that make for great medical suspense. These books are smart and well written. Some readers felt that they were picking up the book when they only had a few moments to find out what was going to happen next.