Janet mcgiffin biography

Janet McGiffin divides her time between her apartment in Manhattan, her family in Washington State, and her friends in Athens, Greece.
Janet McGiffin has written three Dr. Maxine St. Claire mysteries, for Fawcett Press, US, featuring an ER doctor in an inner-city hospital.
Follow Janet McGiffin and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Janet McGiffin Author Page.

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Betrothal and Betrayal: Empress Irini Series, Volume 1 Volume 1

Janet McGiffin divides her time between her apartment in Manhattan, her family in Washington State, and her friends in Athens, Greece. She was born in Fairfield, Iowa into a newspaper family and learned to write copy as a teenager by writing obituaries for the Ellensburg Daily Record in Washington state. After university, she worked for the Milwaukee Health Department where she gained first-hand knowledge for her best-selling mystery series published by Fawcett Press, NY, featuring Doctor Maxine St. Clair, an ER doctor in an inner-city hospital. She worked as a press officer for the Washington state senate, then moved to Athens, Greece where she wrote grant proposals for small non-profit women's organizations in Mediterranean countries. She also wrote a humor column for the Athens News newspaper with field archaeologist Adrian Vrettos, wrote two English language easy readers for Cambridge University Press, UK, and a series of hiking articles for greecetravel.com. She researched her Byzantine-era Empress Irini

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Emergency Murder

December 4, 2022

Dr. Maxine St. Clair is rarely surprised at who or what comes in to St. Agnes Hospital’s ER. When Nanette Myer comes in dressed like a hooker in a condition close to death from an apparent heart attack, Dr. St. Clair is stunned. Nanette is the wife of surgeon Hank Myer; a doctor of the higher echelon of the Milwaukee medical world. She is also someone who is health and put together.

Everything possible is done to save Nanette, but to no avail. When the autopsy results are released, the death is declared heart related. The more St. Clair thinks about the results the more she feels it’s something else. Further tests show it is a chemical that St. Clair was working with when she was a researcher with her own lab at Marquette.

Suspicion falls on St. Clair about the death being murder and she becomes the prime suspect. She had been involved with Dr. Myer in the past. She knew about the poison and still had access to the lab. She was the doctor in charge the night Nanette came into the ER

St. Clair knows she is innocent of all charges, but she want

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I’m excited to take part in the blog tour for Betrothal and Betrayal today in conjunction with TheWriteReads! It’s my first time taking part in one of their tours, and we have a great book to feature today!

Betrothal and Betrayal is a historical fantasy set around Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire. Set in the backdrop of a world run by men, we follow Thekla, a fiery female protagonist. She ventures out of her small town after being stood up by her betrothed for the third time. Her mission is to either find him and hold him accountable to his oath, or have him release her. It’s a foray into a richly set world as independently as any woman of her time can!

Let’s take a look at the details of the book before diving into my review:-

Betrothal and Betrayal – Janet McGiffin

Genre: Historical Fantasy

Pages: 250

Audience: Young Adult

Publisher: Scotland Street Press

Publication Date: 01 Aug 2023

Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Goodreads – Betrothal and Betrayal

Seventeen-year-old Thekla needs her quick wits and knife to track down her betrothed, a soldie