Four novels in one volume, featuring a British doctor who investigates symptoms and suspects with equal dedication...
This collection of crime thrillers stars Dr Cathy Moreland, who manages not only her own practice and her bipolar disorder, but also investigations into murder, and includes:
Shooting Pains
When a patient visits Cathy with a disturbing story of marital tension and a bruise on her arm, she's understandably concerned. But Fiona, despite confiding her fear of her husband, refuses further help. After Fiona's husband asks Cathy to sign his gun licence form days later, and then someone is killed with the gun, Cathy must sort through her suspicions and find out what's been happening behind closed doors.
Clinically Dead
During a condolence call to medical secretary Sara Wiseman, Cathy finds it odd that Sara seems more upset about the recent suspicious death of her boss at the hospital than about the loss of her own mother to Alzheimer's. But she's far more alarmed when Sara's husband says he suspects Sara was having an affair with the dead doctor-and fears that was the least of her transgressions...
Lethal Resuscitation
A medical conference becomes a murder scene when Cathy checks in at a country hotel for an advanced life support course-and the equipment meant for saving lives is instead used to kill a bad-tempered doctor.
The Vanishing Patient
Cathy is taken aback when an irate patient claims his ailing wife has been kidnapped by one of her colleagues using a false name. Is someone impersonating a doctor, or is Adam Steer delusional? But the more she looks into the bizarre story, the more she starts doubting her own sanity. Can she make sense of the events around her before everything spirals out of control?
