The Third Day: A Lieutenant Bellini Mystery
Los Angeles, 1979.
A nurse is dead. A doctor is dying. And the clue that could save him is hidden in a paperback bookmark.
At St. Ambrose Medical Center, brilliant young cancer researcher Dr. Adrian Bellamy is preparing to make history. Protocol Vesper could change everything, but one senior doctor refuses to approve it before the results are ready.
Then Nurse Mae Callahan notices something she was never meant to see.
Hours later, Mae is found dead in the staff parking lot, a hospital vial placed near her hand and an easy explanation waiting for the police.
Stress. Access. Tragedy.
Lieutenant Giovanni "Gio" Bellini is young, awkward, and easy to underestimate. But Mae left behind more than a body. She left behind a missing note, a damaged bookmark, and one careful observation that refuses to fit the hospital's story.
As Bellini follows the smallest clues through polished corridors, donor pressure, medical ambition, and a death planned to look natural, he realizes the murder may not be over.
Because the real victim is still alive.
And on the third day, he is meant to die.
The Third Day is the first book in The Bellini Mysteries, a classic police mystery series featuring Lieutenant Giovanni Bellini of the LAPD.
Told in the tradition of classic inverted detective mysteries, this is not just a question of who committed the crime. It is a battle of patience, proof, and timing as Bellini tries to uncover what the reader begins to suspect before the killer can finish the plan.
Perfect for readers who enjoy classic detective mysteries, police procedurals, medical mystery thrillers, slow-burn crime fiction, clever clue-based investigations, and quiet detectives who notice what everyone else misses.
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