A Hard Death

Medical Examiner Dr Edward Jenner survived his last case, but only by slaying a brutal serial killer.

His New York medical license has been suspended and he is forced to take a pathologist's job in a quiet backwater of the Florida Everglades.

Quiet, that is, before he helps remove two murder victims from a car sunk into the swamp.

Quiet before a late night call sends him to a lonely stand of trees in the middle of the Glades: an execution scene filled with putrefying bodies. The autopsies reveal how the victims were tortured and killed and Jenner's investigation points to the killers with unforeseen consequences.

There is no such thing as Quiet in the Glades, and there are no easy deaths....

A Hard Death combines state of the art forensic science with edge of the seat tension for a master thriller to rival Patricia Cornwell.

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Jenner, the brilliant forensic pathologist hero of A PRECIOUS BLOOD, has survived the horrific final denouement of the Inquisitor serial killings, but not the political fall-out. His medical license suspended, Jenner finds himself banished from New York to Douglas County in coastal Florida, and settles in to work as a Medical Examiner in the balmy seaside resort of Port Fontaine.

But nothing in Douglas is as it seems. First, Jenner's former mentor is found savagely murdered, then an anonymous call in the middle of the night leads Jenner to a nightmarish discovery in the Everglades. He finds traces of a shadowy criminal conspiracy, and soon learns that he can trust no one. Even after an attempt on his life, Jenner refuses to walk away and let his friend's murder go unpunished. The result is an explosive, edge-of-the-seat thriller in the tradition of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs.