Mary Rae, M.D. grew up in the New York city suburbs. She graduated from Colgate University before attending the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. After residency, she moved to Texas where she practiced Emergency Medicine for twenty years. She then changed course to practice Primary Care until her retirement in 2020. Soon after her retirement from medicine, she and her husband moved to Oakland, California. Rae's and Venters' first medical thriller, Break Bone Fever, was a finalist in the 2022 Colorado Book Awards. Their second book, Breaking Apart, won the Silver Falchion Award for best thriller at the 2024 Killer Nashville competition.
Mary Rae, M.D. grew up in the New York city suburbs. She graduated from Colgate University before attending the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. After residency, she moved to Texas where she practiced Emergency Medicine for twenty years. She then changed course to practice Primary Care until her retirement in 2020. Soon after her retirement from medicine, she and her husband moved to Oakland, California. Rae's and Venters' first...
Books
Breaking News
Will uncovering the truth about a cold murder case in Galveston bring closure to the victim’s family? Louise Finnerty and Marnie Liccione must weigh the cost of seeking the truth against the threat to their families from malevolent forces.
In the winter of 2020, a young man demands that the Bay City Daily News investigate his father’s violent...
Breaking Apart (A Finnerty and Liccione Mystery Book 2)
“Rae and Venters have once again spun a medical murder mystery with precision, passion, and complexity. Breaking Apart takes you on a sexy and high-stakes ride.”
-Patty Dann, Author of Mermaids, which was made into a movie with Cher, Winona Ryder, and Christina Ricci
“Breaking Apart...features the two physicians teaming up again, this time to...
Break Bone Fever (A Finnerty and Liccione Mystery Book 1)
“What a timely murder mystery!” -Marsha K. Kohn, J.D.
Facing a coming epidemic of dengue fever, Louise and Marnie try to discover the truth behind their friend’s murder, but can they solve it before it’s too late?
When Dr. Gennifer Drake’s body washes up on a foggy beach on Galveston Island, Texas, Dr. Louise Finnerty, an emergency medicine...