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A severed leg is found, but there is not much the police or their pathologist, George Barnabus, can do. After two further deaths George's suspicions are aroused, and when her lover, Chief Inspector Gus Hathaway, finds himself in trouble, George begins to unravel a dangerous crime...
This is the second in the medical mystery series, featuring Dr Frederica Barnabus, the forensic pathologist and police-surgeon at the Old East Hospital. In this story she is involved in investigating the harrowing case of suspicious deaths of small babies in the Maternity unit.
The gossipmongers at London's Royal Eastern Hospital are working overtime. Three deaths in as many days among the staff? Worse, three suicides? Something must be very wrong. Dr. George Bamabas, not one to stand for any nonsense, could have toldthem that the deaths were certainly ...
Dr Barnabas is the new pathologist at a big inner city hospital. She is also a police surgeon - and the first woman to hold either post. Her first post-mortem is on a well-known author, with all the attendant media circus. But trouble starts when she cannot find a cause of death....
Claire Rayner's new book is the fifth featuring George Barnabas, the female Head of Pathology at the Old East Hospital. Her fiance, Superintendant Gus Hathaway, has got a very hot case on his hands: the brutal murder of Conservative MP Sam Diamond which is shortly followed by the...
The man admitted to casualty was a Polish seaman - an emergency - in urgent need of an abdominal operation. Four hours later, he died ''accidentally''. From then on, the "accidents'" became more frequent - and more violent.
Medical decisions can kill or cure, and this book documents one month in a hospital where staff are challenged by such decisions. Problems are faced daily by people like Kate Sayers, a surgeon whose dedication to her work makes any private life difficult, and whose boyfriend, an ...
The modest wedding between the famous Letty Lackland's nephew Harry and charming but frail Leah Landis, eight years his senior, provokes some uncharitable gossip among his kinsfolk gathered in Golders Green for the occasion. And it doesn't help that Leah fails to have the baby sh...
In Claire-Louise Bennett's shimmering debut, an unnamed young woman-wry, somewhat misanthropic, keenly observant-chronicles her life on the outskirts of a small coastal village. The charms of bananas and oatcakes in the morning and Spanish oranges after sex; the small pleasures a...