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What Members Thought
The initial murder is horrible, particular for anyone with any kind of medical phobia. The book opens with a visit to a nursing school attached to a hospital. Several students are demonstrating their learning using a fellow student as a model when things go horribly wrong. As always seems the case, one murder leads to another and Dagliesh finds himself looking to link the murders and examing the stories and alibis of multiple suspects from a large pool.
The students and some of the staff have the ...more
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Complex and interesting characters, and settings. She doesn't build stories, they evolve from the interplay of her characters, settings, and mood to an inevitable result--the story could not unfold in any other way. Sometimes unsettling, always an intriguing must-finish book.
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