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A patient death

A patient death

Book 2023

"In John Farrow's riveting 10th novel featuring his iconic detective Émile Cinq-Mars, an investigation into a peculiar rash of deaths, in which the elderly sitting up straight suddenly "pop off", lays bare the roots and intricacies of the opioid crisis. Retired from the Montreal Police Service, Cinq-Mars is tapped by a U.S. State Trooper to look into deaths being booked as "natural causes". Should they perhaps be viewed differently, as suspiciou...