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Genre: Crime, Mystery & Thriller
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780749679956
Pages: 286
Rights: World English
Pub. Date: 2008-05-01

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Price: £19.99

Format: Hardback

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A tense and contempoary thriller for those who love Minette Walters and Kathy Reichs, dealing with controversial psychological issues such as Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome.

Dr Daniel Gregory is a GP in a market town in Stafforshire.  Divorced and denied visiting rights to his seven year-old daughter, he is lonely and vulnerable to the dysfunctional behaviour of some of the locals.
Dr Daniel Gregory is a GP in a picturesque Mid-Staffordshire market town.  Divorced and denied visiting rights to his seven year-old daughter, he is lonely and vulnerable to the dysfunctional behaviour of some of the locals.

Locals like Vanda Struel, a single parent who repeatedly brings her toddler  into the surgery  with a succession of increasingly bizarre complaints. Or Chelsea Emmanuel, a precocious teenager who makes advances to him only to plan pathological revenge when he refuses. Or the fatally damaged town policeman, who suspects Daniel of harbouring an unhealthy attraction for his French wife...

When an elderly woman patient is mistakenly given a terminal diagnosis, Vanda becomes pregnant with her second child and Daniel's own possessive mother arrives on the scene, things head inexorably towards the final breaking point.