In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Dr. Marschall Runge discusses his debut novel, Coded to Kill. In this techno-medical thriller, a state-of-the-art medical records system gets hijacked, giving the hijackers unfettered access to private information and the ability to change the patient records of some very important people. Does this mean that medicine’s greatest breakthrough is now the world’s most efficient killing machine? You’ll have to read Coded to Kill to find out. As Marschall explains, everything in this book is possible, and some of it has already happened. And he would know. Dr. Marschall Runge is the executive vice president for Medical Affairs at the University of Michigan, dean of the Medical School, and CEO of Michigan Medicine. In this episode, I’ll chat with Marschall about his writing journey, the feedback he has received from his colleagues and students, and how the sequel to Coded to Kill will address real-world issues that are being debated right now.

*** As mentioned in the interview, Dr. Marshcall Runge’s author email is [email protected]. He would love to hear from readers!

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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Gary Braver discusses his new book, Rumor of Evil. In this mystery novel, Gary weaves together two seemingly unrelated murders—-one past and one present. Two police detectives catch a case of a woman’s murder that is staged to look like a suicide. As their investigation unfolds, they discover clues leading back to a decades-old murder of a teenage foreign exchange student. In crafting this story, Gary was inspired by the 2014 true-crime Slender Man case, from which he studied the profiles of both the bullied and the bullies. Gary believes the draw of the mystery genre comes down to the differences between true crime stories and fiction-—namely that in fiction, motives become clear and, in the end, justice is usually served. In this episode, I’ll chat with Gary about his writing journey, what his career as an English professor taught him about writing his own stories, and why he says it is important that the detectives have the most to lose in a mystery novel.

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