Joel Shulkin, MD

 
 

Background: Joel Shulkin, MD, is the author of the novel Adverse Effects, the first book in the Memory Thieves series. He has also penned award-winning short stories and poetry. A pediatrician and United States Air Force veteran with a masters in public health, Joel lives in Florida with his wife and two daughters.

Latest Book: Adverse Effects (summary, reviews and links to purchase).

Upcoming Book News: Toxic Effects, the sequel to Adverse Effects, launches Sept 20, 2022. You can read an excerpt in the trade paperback of Adverse Effects.

Authors That Influenced You: Michael Palmer, Tess Gerritsen and Robin Cook.

Authors/Books You Would Recommend: The Cuts That Cure by Arthur Herbert and The Perfect Daughter by DJ Palmer.

Favorite Indie Bookstore: Murder On The Beach in Delray Beach, FL.

Charities: At Retrieving Freedom, our goal is to place and match completely trained assistance dogs with a level of commitment to recipients that is second to none! Autism Care Today is a national nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to raise awareness and provide treatment services and support to families to help their children with autism be able to achieve their full potential.

How To Contact Joel: Email, Website, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Adverse Effects

 
 

Determined to help her amnesiac patients recover their lives, Boston psychiatrist Cristina Silva is achieving near-miraculous results by prescribing Recognate, a revolutionary new memory-recovery drug now in trials. She understands her patients' suffering better than most, because she's lost her memories, too. Desperate to become herself again, she pops the same experimental drug she prescribes to her patients. And, like them, she remembers a little more each day.

Until one of her patients, a successful accountant, jumps from an eight-story window to his death. And as Cristina's memories return, with them come violent visions and an incessant voice in her head. Maybe the drug isn't safe after all. But discontinuing it would mean forgetting everything she's recalled and losing herself.

Then an enigmatic, possibly dangerous man appears at Cristina's bus stop. He seems to know more about her life than she does and says she holds a secret that puts her life in danger. Perilously balanced between an unknown past and a terrifying future, if she wants to survive, Cristina must stay on the medication and unlock those memories before it's too late -- even if the adverse effects of the drug could destroy her.

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