The Fragrance Shed by a Violet: Murder in the Medical Center

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UPC:
9781942545170
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2 units
Binding:
Perfect Paperback
Publication Date:
10/27/2015
Author:
Lin Wilder
Language:
english
Edition:
Second

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Why did aHoustondistrict attorney decide to involve the state in an area of the law that it has historically treated as sacrosanct: that of medical decision-making?

Why did the DA decide to charge McCall withmurderrather than criminal negligence in a civil court?

In a city where the Texas Medical Center reigns as one of the top employers inHouston, housing over three thousand medical researchers making the news with new pharmaceutical discoveries almost daily, why did twelve Houstonians unanimously decide to convict Dr. McCall for intentional murder following her trial?
These are the questions that lead investigative reporterKate Townsendto write a Pulitzer Prize winning series called Murder in theTexas Medical Center.Haunted by the knowledge that her new-found fame has been purchased at too high a price; Kate is sure that McCall is not guilty.

TexasGovernorGreg Bellhires former homicide detective and criminal defense attorneyRich Jansento fix the escalating problems at the Huntsville Prisons recently inflamed by a lawsuit against infamous inmate Dr.Lindsey McCall.
Dr. McCall is an internationally acclaimed cardiologist, researcher, and a 2002 nominee for the Nobel Prize for Medicine. When Jansen skillfully persuades an incompetent prison medical director to resign, he realizes that this strange saga is just beginning.

Mark Twain wrote that forgiveness was the fragrance shed by a violet upon the heel of the boot that has crushed it. This medical mystery weaves together the lives of two sisters, Lindsey, and Paula, with those of strangers as each cope with loss, betrayal, jealousy, and the exquisitely painful journey to forgiveness.

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