Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mysteries Series

The series follows Dr. Zol Szabo, a trauma surgeon who, after facing personal tragedy and a series of mysterious deaths, becomes involved in a series of medical mysteries.

Books in this Series (4)

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Tainted

Book #1 in series

Ross Pennie

Ontario

Medical, Mystery

In an affluent city perched on Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment, residents begin turning up on the pathologist’s autopsy table with what looks like epidemic mad cow disease. Zol Szabo, a public-health doctor and former chef, and Hamish Wakefield, a young infectious-diseases specialist, must trace the epidemic to its source while dodging the deadly prions…

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Tampered

Book #2 in series

Ross Pennie

Ontario

Medical, Mystery

Though Zol and his team have investigated every centimetre of Camelot Lodge, a residence for healthy seniors blessed with generous pensions and high-ranking political connections, the source of the converted mansion’s spate of fatal food poisonings remains elusive. As the death count rises, the outbreak threatens Zol’s beloved grandfather Art Greenwood,…

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Up in smoke

Book #3 in series

Ross Pennie

Ontario

Medical, Mystery

Epidemic investigator Dr. Zol Szabo and his team are called to a panic’stricken high school in the heart of Ontario’s tobacco country, where teens are dying from liver failure. The team suspects a link with contaminated, cut-price cigarettes manufactured on nearby Grand Basin Indian Reserve. When Zol confronts The Badger, the multi-millionaire kingpin…

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Bitter Paradise

Book #4 in series

Ross Pennie

Ontario

Medical, Mystery

After weeks of torture at the hands of Syria's secret police, the bombing of his villa in the ancient city of Aleppo, and the murder of his daughter, trauma surgeon Dr. Hosam Khousa flees his fractured homeland with his wife and son. They make their way to Canada as refugees, where Hosam is forced to trade his prestigious scalpel for a barber's humble…