4 BOOKS BY DAVID LAING DAWSON PLUS A NON FICTION BY MARVIN ROSS

1. Don't Look Down - Thriller- 194 pages $19.95 LOOK INSIDE OR BUY

Four men, age 18 to 81, have murdered, and now share a room in the secure forensic psychiatry ward of a mental hospital. Who better to get inside their heads, and find both the tragedy and comedy of their lives than Canadian psychiatrist and novelist David Laing Dawson. Three of Dawson's previous novels, Last Rights, Double Blind, and Essondale have been published in seven European countries, the US and the UK. Dawson's novels have been described as a cross between Elmore Leonard and Seinfeld and as close to reality as it gets.

2. Slide in all Direction - Novel - 240 pages   $19.95     LOOK INSIDE OR BUY NOW

A new story of crime, addictions, mental illness, love and family, set in the decaying urban center of an old manufacturing city. Described as "fiction that's as close to reality as it gets" and "a little Elmore Leonard - a little Seinfeld"

3. The Intern -  Novel - 238 pages    $19.95 LOOK INSIDE OR BUY NOW 

During the tumultuous sixties, Dr. Robert Snow interns in a big city hospital. Dawson lets his readers feel the triumphs and tragedies, the exhausting, overwhelming experiences of hospital life and death. Set against the social upheavals of 67/68 the author once again gives us vital characters struggling in an ambiance that rings all too true.

 4. Essondale -  Psychological thriller - 192 pages $19.95 LOOK INSIDE OR BUY NOW

Is this hell, or just a psychiatric hospital? Dr. Robert Snow isn't sure. Waking from a drunken stupor in a small green room, the doctor finds he's on the other side of the diagnosis - in a place where life and mental health seem to be going pretty cheap these days. Murder and sexual abuse haunt the hospital, but Snow doesn't really care. He'd rather be dead anyway. When a charming, manic cowboy and a world-weary intellectual invade Snow's self-imposed isolation, they drag him out of his depression - and into the heart of Essondale's black mysteries...

What critics have said about David Laing Dawson's previous novels:

 NON FICTION ON SCHIZOPHRENIA

Schizophrenia: Medicine's Mystery, Society's Shame.

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by Marvin Ross  Non fiction 188 pages     $19.95

The purpose of this book is twofold. First, it is hoped that a candid discussion of the disease, the suffering that is inflicted on those with the disease by a mostly uncaring society and an explanation of what schizophrenia is and how the treatment of its victims can be improved will advance our appreciation of the problem. Second, it is intended that this book will provide information and comfort to the families of the victims and hopefully empower them in their struggle. It can also be used for families to give to friends and other family members in order to help them understand and to help to dispel the myths about serious mental illness they might have.

Recommended as "a good book - worth a read" by the World Fellowship for Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders