Lethal Practice

by Peter Clement

Overview

When ER doctor Earl Garnet discovers the hospital's Chief Administrator murdered with a cardiac needle, he immediately becomes one of the suspects. Not every doctor is skilled with a cardiac needle, and Garnet is. Attempting to clear his name by identifying the real killer, Garnet also becomes the next target. And his investigation embroils him in a sinister conspiracy that threatens his whole medical world. Medical Thriller by Peter Clement; originally published by Fawcett

Product Details

BN ID:	2940043322197
Publisher:	Belgrave House
Publication date:	05/03/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	96,371
File size:	677 KB

About the Author

Peter Clement, MD, is a physician who headed an emergency room at a major metropolitan hospital and now maintains a private practice. He is also the author of Lethal Practice, Death Rounds, and The Procedure. He is married to a physician and has two sons.

Editorial Reviews

A single mysterious and grisly murder in the first chapter sustains this entire debut novel. The cardiac needle expertly plunged into the heart of Everett Kingsly, chief administrator of St. Paul's Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y., puts top ER doctor, cardiac genius and the story's narrator Earl Garnet at the investigation's forefront. While a few subplots fill in the blanks, Clement doesn't make the mistake of substituting body count for narrative drive; the circumstances surrounding Kingsly's death and the motives floating around the hospital provide more than enough juice. Clement, a former ER physician, possesses punchy prose, medical know-how and a knack for quirky details, and his hardened depiction of the realities of hospital administration is disturbing. (Sept.)

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