Crazy Dead
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Fighting depression in a Toronto psychiatric ward, Cordi must throw herself back into harm's way when another patient dies. Was it murder?
Struggling to escape the sticky blackness of clinical depression, zoologist Cordi O’Callaghan is admitted to a psychiatric ward in Toronto. As she slowly recovers, one of the patients dies. Cordi must convince a skeptical medical staff that the woman has been murdered, while healing her own mind at the same time. Her suspects include medical personnel and patients suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, alcoholism, OCD, and panic disorder. Martha, Cordi’s lab technician, tries in dramatic fashion to help Cordi solve the murder, while Jacques, a recovering alcoholic, helps out and steals Cordi’s heart along the way.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This well-written and often enthralling story is the fourth in Kingsmill's series featuring quirky zoologist Cordi O'Callaghan. While in a profound depression, Cordi voluntarily committed herself to the psychiatric ward of a Toronto hospital. As she begins her recovery, she becomes aware that there is something strange going on in her ward. Things take a disturbing new turn when she finds Mavis, a wealthy fellow patient, dead in the room they share. The staff steadfastly denies that Mavis is dead, Cordi's brother has more faith in the doctor's assessment than in Cordi's, and the police are unwilling to accept the word of a mental patient they need proof. Cordi, who has done her share of amateur sleuthing in the past, decides to investigate the death on her own. But even she begins to doubt her perceptions of reality at times. Was the murder real or a hallucination? Suspense builds as Cordi and readers wonder whom she can really trust. Kingswell's knowledge of psychiatric conditions and therapies adds realistic details as Cordi navigates her way among staff, patients, and suspects on the way to the surprising denouement.
