Larry KIRshbaum
The Women Loved Him to Death: A medical mystery of revenge.
It Was a Shocking Death…
Sherman “Sandy” Wainwright was the golden boy of a wealthy Californian family, a medical prodigy whose charm was as undeniable as his talent. His rugged features, athletic body and cocky attitude made women forget the warnings their mothers had given them about “pretty boys” of his type. Yet, his sudden death shattered the Hillside Hospital, revealing the fragile lines between love, ambition, and betrayal. Found lifeless, draped in his white coat, Sandy's demise sent shockwaves through the New York medical campus, especially for the women who had known him intimately. Could one of them be a murderer?
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“A Smart, tightly plotted, witty medical mystery. AN absolute bestseller. Five stars from me.”
— James Patterson, World’s Best-Selling Author
"A first novel at age 80? Super Impressive. Death in a White Coat is a whodunit that'll keep you guessing well into the night."
— Brad Meltzer, Author of many major bestsellers including "The Tenth Justice" and "The Lightning Rod”.
About Larry
Lifelong editor and publisher Larry Kirshbaum announces debut novel, “Death in a White Coat.”
New York, N.Y. – Summer 2024 – Larry Kirshbaum, 80, is putting a finishing touch on his distinguished career in publishing, writing, editing, journalism and representing authors by announcing the release of a debut medical thriller, “Death in a White Coat.” Set within the walls of a prestigious, fictional Manhattan hospital, the novel revolves around the mysterious death of a talented and wealthy young medical student who seemed to have a brilliant life ahead of him.
Drawing on his background of working with some of the great thriller and mystery writers over a 55-year career, Kirshbaum explores what happens when a lustful male student in his first clinical year manages to alienate some of his intimate female admirers in the hospital world. Their quest for revenge raises the question for a senior NYPD detective as to whether the death was a murder or suicide or maybe a combination of the dangers wrought by too many women (and a male or two) looking for love in all the wrong places.
From his earliest journalistic experience as an editor of his high school and college newspapers, Kirshbaum has always been fascinated by the written word in printed or digital formats. After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1966, he started as a correspondent for Newsweek Magazine in Detroit covering the riots in 1967 and 1968. He then wrote a book about student protest with a co-writer Roger Rapoport, published by Random House and entitled “Is the Library Burning?”
Most of his publishing career was spent at the Warner Book Group where he started in 1974 and rose to becoming publisher in 1985 and CEO from 1997 to 2005. He has been running the LJK Literary Agency since that time with a three-year interlude as head of the New York City office of Amazon publishing. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Barbara of 57 years whom he met as a freshman at Michigan. They are very fortunate to have their children and grandchildren living nearby with a dog and cat in their kids’ respective families.
