ASSISTED SUICIDE. MURDER. RIDGELINE, CALIFORNIA WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN. Dr. Gates McClure suddenly finds her quiet life and medical practice turned upside down when Dr. Norman Meade, an old acquaintance, arrives to assist a dying woman commit suicide. Then a man is found murdered—and the evidence points toward Dr. Meade. As Gates searches for answers to the murder, she's also forced to take a hard look at her Christian faith and what she believes about assisted suicide. Complicating matters is her relationship to Dr. Meade. The man she remembers from med school wasn't a killer... Alton Gansky, author of By My Hands and Through My Eyes, explores a story behind today's headlines in the first Ridgeline Mystery. Alton brings an eclectic background to his writing, having worked in such fields as accounting, advertising, and architecture. Today he is the senior pastor of High Desert Baptist Church in Phelan, California, where he resides with his wife and three children.