The
Goldilocks
Genome

A Medical Thriller

Available May 21, 2024

… an engaging mystery at the intersection of genetic research, pharmacology, depression, and murder.

Barry Fulton
Author of the Thomas Sebastian Scott espionage/mystery series

In an era when science is despised and disparaged, along comes Elizabeth Aden to make the complex coherent. In The Goldilocks Genome, she takes complicated scientific concepts and spins them into a gripping thriller. Only Betsy Aden can make isocarboxazid and nialamide sexy.

John DeDakis
Novelist, writing coach, and former Senior Copy Editor for CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

The Goldilocks Genome is the most exceptional medical thriller I’ve ever read. . . . The author powerfully illustrates the need for personalized medicine and its benefits.

Readers’ Favorite

…a complex, fast-moving, and scary novel with really new and important insights into recent key advances in personalized medicine or pharmacogenomics. Definitely the first medical thriller of its kind.

Dr. Jonathan Knowles
Former Head of Group Research, The Roche Group

… a fascinating scientific whodunit that you’ll think of at every hotel banquet you attend for the rest of your life.

George W. Rutherford, MD, AM
Professor of Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine, Pediatrics and History, University of California, San Francisco

The Goldilocks Genome is an enjoyable and well-paced pharma-thriller with a Crichtonesque and frankly terrifying level of scientific realism.

Dan Romik, PhD
Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis

About the Book

When a psychopathic serial killer uses medical technology to exact revenge, epidemiologist Carrie Hediger must investigate to solve the death of her friend.

Convinced her friend has been poisoned, the heroine hones in on the murderer using statistics, persuasion, persistence, and disregard of the rules to trap him.

Genes are the blueprints for the enzymes that metabolize drugs. Drugs are “just right” for about 40% of patients and “too much” or “too little” for the remainder. Outside of the Goldilocks zone, the results can be fatal. This novel is a thrilling story of revenge, justice, and medical investigation that will captivate you.

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Publishes May 21, 2024

Elizabeth Reed Aden

Elizabeth (Betsy) is a native of Berkeley, California. In her professional role, she developed a strong interest in personalized medicine and a passion for its implementation which shines through in her writing.

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