Cody, Wyoming: WordCrafts Press (December 2022)

Paperback. Signed.

In Party Favors a financially struggling, young orthopedic surgeon on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is tempted to sell his patients’ leftover narcotics to save his drowning surgical practice, even hook new patients on opioids for financial gain. Local police work to connect his medical practice to a drug trafficking ring run by his secretary’s family. Written by a practicing physician, Party Favors was inspired by true stories of the rampant national and worldwide crisis of opioid and related drug abuse. The novel details complex characters, relationships, and situations that test the deepest moral and ethical codes.

Darden North’s mystery and thriller novels have been awarded nationally, most notably an IPPY in Southern Fiction for Points of Origin. His other novels include The 5 Manners of Death, Wiggle Room, Fresh Frozen, and House Call. The screen adaptation of Points of Origin is in post-production. North has been featured at writing conferences including the 29th Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration, Killer Nashville, Murder on the Menu, SIBA Thriller Panel, and Murder in the Magic City. He served as Chairman of the Board of the Mississippi Public Broadcasting Foundation and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association. A native of the Mississippi Delta, North is a gynecologist and lives in Jackson with his wife Sally. Learn more at: www.dardennorth.com .