The Bottom Line: Voted the year’s best medical thriller in the 2024 BestThrillers.com Book Awards
The Goldilocks Genome’s winning formula is its inclusion of actual current psychiatric practices, science and pharmacology, which sets the tone for a wholly believable thriller you can’t put down.
When San Francisco–based FDA epidemiologist Dr. Carrie Hediger uncovers a rash of unexplained deaths while investigating the suspiciously convenient demise of her best friend, she becomes determined to find answers.
Her path may lead to a murderer.
And even if it doesn’t, it may lead to professional ruin.
To unravel the puzzle, Carrie assembles a team.
Among them: some talented post-doctoral fellows, a quirky pharmacologist, an unctuous chemist, and a skeptical FBI agent that she can’t help her attraction for.
Together, they follow the data through the twists and turns, eventually uncovering that the Goldilocks effect in prescription drugs—the premise that people are inclined to seek “just the right amount” of something—is central to understanding these mysterious deaths.
Through the twists and turns, Carrie and her team enter a race to uncover the truth and catch a killer.
