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The Silent Sleep of the Dying

By: Keith McCarthy
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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When Mark Hartmann is asked to perform a post-mortem on a lab assistant killed by cancer, everything looks straightforward. But his initial findings are surprising: Millicent Sweet appears to have died of several different, aggressive tumours. Before he can discuss this with colleagues, he's called to a conference in Scotland. A serious error of judgement gives a pharmaceutical company a handle on him, and they threaten to expose his excesses unless he falsifies his report on Sweet.

Meanwhile, Millicent's father is suspicious about her death and has contacted lawyer Helena Flemming. Her partner, former forensic pathologist John Eisenmenger, uncovers the original post-mortem and deception, and is determined to unearth the reasons behind the pharmaceutical company's actions.

©2004 Keith McCarthy (P)2007 Isis Publishing Ltd Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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Really good. Better than the first. Looking forward to the rest of this series. Sean Barrett brilliant as usual, bringing McCarthy's exceptional characters into vivid reality in the mind's eye. Unmissable really. If this were a physical book, it would be kept on my top shelf.

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Keith McCarthy’s penmanship combined with Sean Barrett’s dulcet tones have delivered the best suite of books in this genre I’ve listened to.

Many thanks to them both.

Pathologically addictive!

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I really enjoy this series and had already downloaded the next in the series. The very flawed characters, both goodies and baddies bare there souls for all to see and the humour in the story keeps me guessing. Highly recommended.

Another excellent who done it

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