The Flu Is Coming
1st Edition
Published on 4. December 2018
222 pages
978-1-5323-9568-0 (ISBN)
Description
In The Flu Is Coming, a new type of flu - the Philippine flu -kills nearly half of the residents in an upscale, gated community near Albuquerque in less than a week. Those who survive become virtual prisoners in their homes when a quarantine is imposed.
The Centers of Disease Control recruits Sara Almquist, a resident of the community and a scientist, to apply her skills as an epidemiologist to find ways to limit the spread of the epidemic. As she pries into her neighbors' lives, she finds promising scientific clues. Unfortunately, she also learns too much about several of them and violence ensues when several try to escape the quarantine.
More details
Person
J. L. Greger is a biology professor and research administrator from the University of Wisconsin-Madison turned novelist. She likes to include tidbits of science and foreign locations in her thriller/mystery novels: Murder: A Way to Lose (1st prize in 2016 Public Safety Writers [PSWA] book contest and finalist for a 2016 NM/Arizona book award), Malignancy (1st prize in 2015 PSWA book contest), Riddled with Clues (finalist for a 2017 NM/Arizona book award), She Didn't Know Her Place, and others.
Her short story collections: Other People's Mothers (finalist for a 2017 NM/Arizona book award) and The Good Old Days focus on families.
Her website is http://www.jlgreger.com.
Content
44 chapters of fiction with a chapter called "Science Behind the Story" at the end
