Doc in the Box
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Publisher Description
Did the doctor's callous bedside manner give a patient the urge to kill?
It takes a truly sneaky person to keep a secret in a newsroom. St. Louis City Gazette columnist Francesca Vierling is just the woman to do it-especially to help hide her editor's bout with breast cancer. Now she's surreptitiously shuttling the editor to chemotherapy while finishing a column on gorgeous male stripper Leo D. Nardo. And it's all going without a hitch. . . .
Until Leo disappears and somebody starts shooting the worst doctors in St. Louis. The first M.D. to go has a callous bedside manner that gives all his patients the urge to kill.
The next victim is a master of misdiagnosis. As long as bad doctors are targets, the public isn't shedding a tear. But when Francesca herself is nearly gunned down, is it because she's hunting for Leo's hot body or a cold-blooded killer? Either way she has an adverse reaction to dying. The antidote? Discover the truth . . .
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Francesca Vierling's lousy assignment covering a male stripper turns into intrigue when her subject disappears in Viets's newest mystery featuring the columnist/sleuth (after The Pink Flamingo Murders). At the same time, a doctor, receptionist and therapist in a radiation oncology unit are gunned down, and Francesca determines to solve the mystery to further her career. Nobody has anything good to say about these callous medical professionals, nor about the next victim, an internist who, though well-loved, had been known to misdiagnose patients. Surreptitiously escorting her editor and friend to breast cancer treatments conveniently puts Francesca in the right place to dig around. Suddenly, she begins to receive death threats. Is it because of her search for Leo D. Nardo, the missing and most-likely dead stripper, or is someone trying to stop her investigation of the vengeful medical murders? Before the reader has much chance to agonize over these possibilities, Francesca has solved one case and the other is easily narrowed down to three suspects. Those hoping for a surprise ending will be disappointed, but there is a perverse satisfaction in seeing revenge taken for all the people who are not only victims of cancer but of the medical system itself.
