Saturday, April 5th
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

We will be hosting a book signing with Dr. Paul Boor, M.D., featuring his new novel, The Ice Merchant. Paul Boor is a Harvard trained pathologist, scientist, and professor at UTMB, Galveston. He also serves as the Medical Examiner for Galveston County.

The Ice Merchant is set in Galveston in the late 1800s when the island’s medical school was being established. Nicolas Van Horne is an enterprising merchant in the ice business who has developed a side-line of delivering cadavers to the medical school, keeping them packed under the ice which he transports from the North. When some of the bodies exhibit signs of torture he sets out to solve the mystery with the help of a lady scientist at the school who is doing research into the causes of Yellow Fever.

The Ice Merchant is Paul Boor’s second novel, following his 2007 contemporary medical thriller, The Blood Notes of Peter Mallow featuring a Galveston research scientist dealing with the outbreak of a deadly pathogen.

Dr. Boor will be meeting customers and signing copies of both books at the event.