The Baby Thief (A Liz Roberts Mystery)

By Don Canaan and Shawn Graves

This medical mystery novel features an idealistic young physician-to-be who loses her idealism after a series of overpowering events
intervene to rob her of everything she loved.

Who is Ellen Goodman? Is she the kind, empathetic obstetrician who has delivered thousands of babies? Or is she the greedy baby
broker who sells the babies of poor, teenage girls to the highest bidder? Or, perhaps, is she a woman capable of even darker acts?

Only you the reader can make that judgment.

The story’s target audience is comprised of fiction readers—medical personnel, midwives, fathers, mothers (married and single), lawyers—anybody that has given birth, is pregnant, delivered a baby, considered adoption or abortion as a possible solution, must steal, buy, borrow and then read “Dedicated Doctor” by Shawn Graves and Don Canaan.

Detective Liz Roberts, who we previously met in “Dutiful Daughter” (2011) will unravel the truth and uncover seventy years worth of secrets to discover a complicated tale of profound love between two people forbidden by law to be together because of the color of their skin. It is a tale of great sacrifice...and of greater evil.

Meanwhile, Liz Roberts will also unearth a long-buried secret in her own family. A secret that will shake the foundations of her world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Don Canaan
• Release date: Sep 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301583171

Don Canaan

Don Canaan went from a Bronx tenement to success in television news film, immigration to Israel, return to the U.S. and then to print journalism. He edited news film and documentaries for NBC News in New York, receiving a joint editorial commendation (as Donald Swerdlow) for Producer Fred Freed’s “American White Paper: Organized Crime in the United States.” In 1974, Canaan immigrated to Israel as part of an American group planning to found and settle in the new city of Yamit in the Sinai, north of El Arish. Upon returning to the U.S, Canaan became a unemployment statistic because news film had been superseded by videotape, which was controlled by a different union.. Ohio State University's School of Journalism came to the rescue with an offer to earn a master's degree while serving as an assistant in its TV news workshop. Canaan was hired as staff writer and photographer for The American Israelite in Cincinnati where he enterprised many stories.. His series, "Jews in Ohio's Prisons: Does Anybody Care?" won first place for best weekly journalism in Ohio from the State of Ohio Bar Association. . He is the author of “Horror in Hocking County” (a true-crime documentation of alleged satanic murders.