John Murnane
Stories rooted in science
Greetings
Fifty years of cancer research. Now I write stories based on my personal experiences.
I would love to hear from you
email: jpmurnane3@gmail.com
My new novel
Irreproducible Results
A promising young woman researcher lay dead in the laboratory. Was it murder? Madeline Murphy, new to the Homicide Division was determined to find out. Madeline has a lot to prove in her new position. Pealing back the layers of laboratory intrigue, Madeline, and her soon to be retired mentor, Eddie Rourke, quickly learn that even scientists sometimes have dark secrets. Relying solely on her college biology background, Madeline struggles to understand the complexity of DNA and its role in cancer, which becomes necessary to grasp the motive behind the murder. Everyone is lying, but who is the murderer? Was it her boyfriend, her professor, or another postdoctoral fellow who was desperate to steal her recent breakthrough in cancer therapy? Setting a trap for the murderer, Madeline and Eddie soon expose a much bigger story than they bargained for
My other novels
The Rose and the Thistle
The Rose and the Thistle tells the true story of Emile Roux, a young outcast driven to make the breakthroughs that result in the first vaccines in the laboratory of Luis Pasteur. A story very different from the tales commonly told, Emile’s success comes at a cost, with the death of the woman to whom he is secretly married, battling a hostile medical community, and disagreements with his Pasteur. With a fortune to be made from vaccines it is not surprising that the race to be first ends in the tragedy.
Blowing in the Wind
Three boys head out into the desert in search of scorpions in the summer of 1968. They become lost, and on their journey encounter desert denizens, both animal and human. In the process, they learn about survival, war, racial prejudice, courage and friendship, and end up rescuing an injured test pilot and discovering clues to a lost gold mine.
