Lethal Care - Claire McNab

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Résumé :
Two celebrated writers combine to offer the electrifying conclusion to a legendary mystery series...

Detective Inspector Carol Ashton's promotion to Chief Inspector has immediately ensnared her in two assignments that hold no warning they will forever change her life. She's inherited the pressurized case of the high-profile death of media star and wealthy philanthropist Greta Denby, who had been undergoing a controversial experimental treatment for her cancer. Carol is now also taking on the case of the investigating officer Inspector Ian Rooke, who has himself just died under baffling circumstances-a demise made more mysterious by the inexplicable shoddiness of his investigation into Greta's death. In this final chapter, Carol must confront an increasingly dire future and the most formidable challenge of all-her fundamental belief in her career, and in herself....

Biographie:

Claire McNab has written over 50 books and is known in her native Australia for crime fiction, children's novels, picture books, self-help, and English textbooks. Her first mystery, Lessons in Murder, was published in the U.S. in 1988. She is the author of three lesbian mystery series featuring Inspector Carol Ashton, Agent Denise Cleever and Detective Kylie Kendall.

She has served as the president of Sisters in Crime and is a member of both the Mystery Writers of America and the Science Fiction Writers of America.