Final Breath

About the Book

It was a typical Saturday night in the hospital emergency room – kids with broken bones, drunks with broken noses and battered wives with broken dreams. Then a grief-stricken father takes after the town’s leading obstetrician, and suddenly police Detective Jo Ferris and the hospital are teetering on the edge of a gut-wrenching decision: Is this a spur-of-the-moment attack of despair, or is something uglier lurking beneath it?

About the Author

Kathleen M. Fraze, daughter of a steelworker and a maternity ward nurse, was born and raised in Massillon, Ohio. She became infatuated with journalism as a teenager, thanks to her grandmother, Ruth Kane, a longtime City Hall and police reporter who got Fraze her first job as a 16-year-old reporter at the Massillon Evening Independent. Fraze graduated from Bowling Green State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and has worked for more than 30 years as a reporter and editor for the Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio. She also has taught editing classes at Kent State University. Fraze has one son, New York artist Bryan Larrick, who painted the cover illustration. Final Exam is the second of her crime novels featuring police detective Jo Ferris.