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Kristen Kroiter was sixteen, a high-school sophomore, when she was injured in a car accident. Dr. Ted Cogan had saved her life when he treated her in the ER six months ago—but now police detectives were questioning Cogan about her, in intimate detail.
What was going on? What had she told them?
That’s just it, the cops said. She hadn’t told them anything. She had died. Looked like a suicide. And Cogan was in a heap of trouble.
Tense and twisting, Knife Music is the story of a doctor struggling to clear his name after being accused of raping and causing the suicide of a young girl. The novel pits Cogan, a forty-three-year- old surgeon and self-described womanizer, against Hank Madden, a handicapped veteran detective. From the outset it’s not clear who is victim and who is victimizer, as the usually dispassionate Madden grapples with his long-suppressed prejudices and his obsession with bringing Ted Cogan to justice at any cost. It all leads up to the most stunning surprise ending since Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent.
Originally self-published in 2008 as an Amazon Booksurge POD paperback and eBook, Knife Music was an enormous success of its kind. It made it to No. 1 on the Kindle Legal Thriller chart and over 17,000 iPhone and 7,000 Sony eBook copies were downloaded before all availability was cut off in preparation for the Overlook Press publication.
David Carnoy resides in New York City with his wife and children. He is an executive editor at CBS Interactive and is interviewed regularly on television as a tech expert, appearing on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and other media outlets.
What was going on? What had she told them?
That’s just it, the cops said. She hadn’t told them anything. She had died. Looked like a suicide. And Cogan was in a heap of trouble.
Tense and twisting, Knife Music is the story of a doctor struggling to clear his name after being accused of raping and causing the suicide of a young girl. The novel pits Cogan, a forty-three-year- old surgeon and self-described womanizer, against Hank Madden, a handicapped veteran detective. From the outset it’s not clear who is victim and who is victimizer, as the usually dispassionate Madden grapples with his long-suppressed prejudices and his obsession with bringing Ted Cogan to justice at any cost. It all leads up to the most stunning surprise ending since Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent.
Originally self-published in 2008 as an Amazon Booksurge POD paperback and eBook, Knife Music was an enormous success of its kind. It made it to No. 1 on the Kindle Legal Thriller chart and over 17,000 iPhone and 7,000 Sony eBook copies were downloaded before all availability was cut off in preparation for the Overlook Press publication.
Praise for KNIFE MUSIC
"Carnoy's debut is gripping, suspenseful, totally believable -- and shockingly good." —Harlan Coben
"Carnoy injects an uncommon level of medical expertise, from physical trauma through hospital hierarchy, into his fine debut thriller about the fraught world of doctors. The novel certainly works as medical drama, but it is also a gripping detective story and a revealing character study about what makes docs tick. We learn, for example, that many doctors’ lack of empathy can be seen as stemming from the fact that they were trapped in labs and libraries during the crucial social-skills-gaining years. One such doctor may be Ted Cogan, a surgeon, who is questioned by detectives after the death of one of his former patients, a female high-school sophomore. Cogan saved her life after a car accident six months before. Now the girl has taken her own life, and a trail of evidence points to a sexual relationship with Cogan and a motive for him to have killed her. Veteran detective Hank Madden, in charge of the case, is a brilliantly realized secondary character. Utterly baffling until the very last page." --Connie Fletcher, Booklist
“A doctor defends himself from an all-too-plausible rape allegation in this scalpel-sharp medical thriller…A gripping thriller debut that is just what the doctor ordered.” – Kirkus Discoveries
"Carnoy's debut is gripping, suspenseful, totally believable -- and shockingly good." —Harlan Coben
"Carnoy injects an uncommon level of medical expertise, from physical trauma through hospital hierarchy, into his fine debut thriller about the fraught world of doctors. The novel certainly works as medical drama, but it is also a gripping detective story and a revealing character study about what makes docs tick. We learn, for example, that many doctors’ lack of empathy can be seen as stemming from the fact that they were trapped in labs and libraries during the crucial social-skills-gaining years. One such doctor may be Ted Cogan, a surgeon, who is questioned by detectives after the death of one of his former patients, a female high-school sophomore. Cogan saved her life after a car accident six months before. Now the girl has taken her own life, and a trail of evidence points to a sexual relationship with Cogan and a motive for him to have killed her. Veteran detective Hank Madden, in charge of the case, is a brilliantly realized secondary character. Utterly baffling until the very last page." --Connie Fletcher, Booklist
“A doctor defends himself from an all-too-plausible rape allegation in this scalpel-sharp medical thriller…A gripping thriller debut that is just what the doctor ordered.” – Kirkus Discoveries
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