Janet Farber

Dr. Maxine St. Clair is rarely surprised at who or what comes in to St. Agnes Hospital’s ER. When Nanette Myer comes in dressed like a hooker in a condition close to death from an apparent heart attack, Dr. St. Clair is stunned. Nanette is the wife of surgeon Hank Myer; a doctor of the higher echelon of the Milwaukee medical world. She is also someone who is health and put together.

Everything possible is done to save Nanette, but to no avail. When the autopsy results are released, the death is declared heart related. The more St. Clair thinks about the results the more she feels it’s something else. Further tests show it is a chemical that St. Clair was working with when she was a researcher with her own lab at Marquette.

Suspicion falls on St. Clair about the death being murder and she becomes the prime suspect. She had been involved with Dr. Myer in the past. She knew about the poison and still had access to the lab. She was the doctor in charge the night Nanette came into the ER

St. Clair knows she is innocent of all charges, but she wants to know who among the medical world she knows is guilty. Investigating any and all threads, she finds envy, distrust, greed and possible scandals are involved along with people she thought she really knew.… (more)