An American in exile, Dr. George Barnabas, forensic pathologist, never imagined that she would exercise anything more than routine professional skills in her new post at the Royal Eastern Hospital, London. Events prove otherwise. Not that the death of a rich, indulged man in late middle age—or a second on a dangerous building site—should necessarily indicate foul play. But George has learnt not to take events at face value. Nor is she ignorant of a world where greed and deceit provide powerful motives. Launched on a murder investigation, she finds bloody-minded feminine intuition an excellent weapon with which to play the police at their own game. And, of course, the murderer. Written by an expert on human foibles, Claire Rayner's thriller is compulsively clever, packed with medical detail and has all the page-turning qualities for which she is famous.