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The 5th horseman : a novel / by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.

ISBN: 9780316159777
ISBN: 0316159778
ISBN: 0316155284
ISBN: 0446699314 (pbk)
ISBN: 9780446699310 (pbk)
Physical Description: 410 p. ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2006.

Patterson, James, 1947- (Author). Paetro, Maxine. (Added Author).

Summary:

Healthy patients are dying of unknown causes in a San Francisco hospital and the Women's Murder Club decides to investigate the hospital's personnel. They discover a hospital administrator determined to shield the hospitals reputation.

Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer is shopping with the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, lawyer Yuki Castellano, and Yuki's mother, Keiko, when suddenly Keiko collapses. She's rushed to San Francisco Medical Center where her condition stabilizes. Yet days later, the hospital calls Yuki with devastating news. Keiko was given the wrong medication and it brought on a fatal heart attack. Even more astonishing, this is not the first time SFMC has made this mistake. Just as patients are about to be released with a clean bill of health, their conditions take a mysterious turn for the worse. As the hospital comes under scrutiny, Lindsay and the Women's Murder Club investigate for themselves. Is there a maniac at work, playing God with people's lives? And has Lindsay somehow made him--or her--even worse? The newest addition to the top-selling new mystery series takes the Women's Murder Club into the most terrifying situation they have yet to encounter.