Lawyered to Death

Michael Biehl. Bridge Works Publishing Company, $23.95 (300pp) ISBN 978-1-882593-76-7

Legal and medical intrigue abound in Michael Biehl's Lawyered to Death: A Karen Hayes Mystery, the sequel to Doctored Evidence (2002), which will appear in a Berkley Prime Crime paperback simultaneously. Attorney Karen Hayes has to defend a client, the head of a Midwest hospital, first from a sexual harassment claim and then a murder charge after the client's sick wife takes a drug to which she's known to be allergic.

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