Bitter Medicine (Paretsky Sara); Hodder & Stoughton, 2008

The feisty, tough and shrewd heroine is back in her fourth adventure in the V I Warshawski series, beautifully repackaged for a new generation.

Consuelo is sixteen, heavily pregnant and married to an unemployed gangster. The last thing she needs is a negligent doctor. When she is rushed into the Friendship private hospital, the staff are reluctant to treat her. Fortunately she has Vic Warshawski, family friend and ex-lawyer, with her. But Consuelo and her baby are the tragic victims of a system so corrupt that it pays her husband to keep quiet. Anyone who can discover anything about the unorthodox dealings of the Friendship is in danger. And Vic's investigations are just about to begin

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