C. J. Lyons aka Cat Lyons is an American physician and writer of medical suspense novels.
C. J. Lyons aka Cat Lyons is an American physician and writer of medical suspense novels.
Lyons was raised in the Pennsylvania municipality known as State College, and attended medical school at the University of Florida. [1] She did her internship and residency at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Akron Children's Hospital. She has held teaching appointments at the Medical College of Ohio and the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. She worked as a general pediatrician focusing on community health care.
In 2008 she published Snake Skin which includes the hero Lucy Guardino who is a Pittsburgh Soccer mum who is employed by the FBI in their Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Squad. [2] Further books in that series include Bloodstained and Kill Zone. [3]
Lucy Guardino Series:
Renegade Justice Series:
Hart and Drake Series:
Caitlyn Tierney Series:
Angels of Mercy Series:
Beacon Falls Series:
Shadow Ops Series:
Fatal Insomnia Series:
Tombstone Digs Series:
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