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Robin Cook
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Jayne
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Synopsis
Jennifer Hernandez is a fourth-year medical student at UCLA whose world is shattered during an otherwise ordinary day. While half-listening to a news report on medical tourism, where first-world citizens travel to third-world countries for surgery, she hears her beloved grandmother's name mentioned, and her own heart nearly stops: the reporter says Maria Suarez-Hernandez had died, a day after undergoing a hip replacement in New Delhi's Queen Victoria Hospital. Maria raised Jennifer and her brothers from infancy, and their bond was unshakable. Still, the news that Maria had travelled to India is a shock to Jennifer, until she realizes it was the only viable option for the hardworking yet uninsured woman.Devastated, Jennifer takes emergency leave from school and heads to India, where relations with local officials go from sympathetic to sour as she presses for information. With the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical examiner Dr Laurie Montgomery. Laurie, along with her husband, Dr Jack Stapleton, rushes to the younger woman's side. And as the death count grows, so do the questions, leading Laurie and Jennifer to unveil a sinister, multilayered conspiracy of global proportions.
Review
I have waited patiently till this third book of Medical Crime novels by Robin Cook to reach our shores.
Robin has done it again kept us in complete suspence until the end about who did what, and why to whom!!
These books are different because they are hospital base crime and not your in the street, such as most crime fiction writers write. I think because of the nurse in me, I can see how that the art of defining a crime in a hospital is so hard to do, and for it to succeed in the way it has in this book is amazing.
The main Character Jennifer Hernandez is a fourth year medical student, who when she hears on the CNN news that someone with her grandmothers' name, and of a simlar age has died in a hospital in New Dehli, she becomes suspicious and then discovers it is her grandmother! She battles like a trojan to get to the bottom of the death because her gran had a clean bill of health, except for her hip which needed replacement surgery.
Jennifer is a well rounded character, but I would not want to cross her if I was in the wrong at any time, but what she does to help another student nurse is beyond belief, and is a true and wonderful gesture by someone who understands a colleages predicament.
The story is well written, very well researched and the next book can't come soon enough.
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