San Francisco Chronicle Feature on Elizabeth Reed Aden

While researching her debut mystery novel, Berkeley author Elizabeth Reed Aden reached out to her mother and brother for advice. They are both psychiatrists, and she asked them how her killer might go about the grisly business of disposing of his victims through combinations of malicious pharmacology.

“As I’m running ideas by them,” Aden recalled, “they were like: ‘We’re not going to help you.’ ”

Despite their understandable choice to abstain, Aden still managed to make her resulting medical thriller, “The Goldilocks Genome,” a family affair.

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