SJ Gardiner

By day, SJ Gardiner is a clinical microbiologist - that's a pathologist specialising in the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases. Not the kind of pathologist who hangs around crime scenes and slices open dead bodies. In TV terms, SJ Gardiner is more like Dr Greg House, but without the limp or the drug habit and with a better bedside manner ... she hopes. Oh, and she'd kill for his turnaround time on lab results. Please don't tell the lab staff she said that. They do a fabulous job, and she doesn't want to scare them away.

After hours, she has a fatal weakness for crime fiction. Always buried in a book. How hard could it be to write her own? What about a whole series? She combined her medical background with her occasional homicidal impulses and decided to find out. Be warned - it will get as gruesome as a zombie attack. Not afraid of a little blood or pus, are you?