The silent cradle

Cuthbert, Margaret (Margaret Owens), author.

Book 1998

A medical mystery featuring a black obstetrician in California. Dr. Rae Duprey, specializing in complicated births, discovers a competing hospital is sending women with deliberately damaged fetuses. She suspects a plot to put her department out of business, and tries to discover who is behind it.

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