The Good Nurse

A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder

De: Charles Graeber

Narrado por: Will Collyer

This New York Times bestselling book is the mesmerizing basis for the movie starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain that takes you inside the mind of America's most prolific serial killer, whose 16-year long "nursing" career left hundreds dead.

“The best book(s) I read this year” (top ten books, EW) —Stephen King

Registered nurse Charlie Cullen was dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 400 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history. Now, in a riveting piece of investigative journalism nearly ten years in the making, Charles Graeber gives us the unbelievable true story.

The Good Nurse weaves an urgent and terrifying tale of madness, humanity and heroism, utilizing previously unseen police records, wire-trap recordings, interviews, and jailhouse conversations with Cullen himself—all provided by the homicide detectives who worked around the clock, and the nurse who had to choose between protecting her colleague and stopping a potential serial killer.

For years Cullen continued to work and kill, shielded by a hospital system that, by accident or design, successfully protected the institution while failing to protect patients. The Good Nurse is a searing indictment of a crushing and dehumanizing for-profit medical system, and an inspiring human story of the previously unknown individuals who chose to risk their jobs and lives to do the right thing.

Mesmerizing and irresistibly paced, this book will make you look at hospitals and the people who work in them in an entirely different way.

Edgar Award Nomination, Mystery Writers of America BBC (Top Ten Books of the Year)

“The Best Journalism of the Year." —The Daily Beast

“The most terrifying book published this year. It is also one of the most thoughtful ... call it literary true crime ...” —Kirkus Reviews ("Best Books of the year")

Nurse Charlie Cullen filled a cemetery!

Any additional comments?

This is the most disturbing book I have read in years...since Coma. This is a true crime story and I barely got thru the first couple of chapters because of the graphic details of a burn ward.
After finishing this book, I kept wondering about how many other nurses, aids and doctors are out there killing patients and when caught or suspected, receive walking papers with a good or neutral recommendation for their next job.
Charlie Cullen obsessed with killing himself with attention seeking suicide attempts found a way to satisfy his driving need for self harm by proxy. He killed patients with a roulette type system of infusing glucose bags with deadly doses of insulin. He also directly injected patients with a drug that makes the heart stop...for good. New Jersey Poison Control Center detectives are the people that cared enough to go after this man and stop him permanently. It is estimated that Charlie killed around 400 people (conservative number) during his career. Hospital administrators and their attorneys are responsible for Charlie's 16 year long career of killing people. He should have been stopped YEARS ago! I can't help but be cynical and paranoid when walking into a hospital now.

Engaging

Good read to listen to. Surprising it's a real life story, which made it that more intriguing.

Exceptional

Draws you in and keeps you there for the whole book. Leaves the reader in a weird sense of amazement that this is a reality for all the families/people this 1 person stole by taking their love ones life. It would be even more interesting to hear how the life of "The Good Nurse" turned out in prison?

Excellent

What did you love best about The Good Nurse?

That it is based on fact.

What did you like best about this story?

The conflict surrounding the ethical decison of whether or not to allow Charlie Cullen to donate a kidney.

What about Will Collyer’s performance did you like?

Good job.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Any additional comments?

Repeated mispronounciation of a drug was a bit irritating. Other than that, excellent.

Bad Narrator

The story was interesting and shocking, but the narrator was CRINGE. The buildup to catching the serial killer was super slow and even got boring, I guess I didn't see what all of the "hype" was about.