Dying in Care

Wayne Minnick. Creative Arts Book Company, $13.95 (155pp) ISBN 978-0-88739-413-3

The third mystery featuring Wade Davis and Leda Fulford, skilled police detectives and hapless on-again, off-again lovers, has the duo investigating the murder of an oncology nurse, the disappearance of a doctor and the cold-blooded calculations behind a hospital euthanasia scam. Retired professor Wayne Minnic (The Crossbow Murder) packs everything from to familial guilt to a doctor bent on revenge in Dying in Care.

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