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Book Review of Silent Treatment

Silent Treatment
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Entertaining read ... BUT the story is too predictable, too many holes, too many coincidences, and feels a bit strained overall.

Dr Harry Corbett is accused by his wife's lover of killing her by poisoning her in the hospital the night before she was scheduled to undergo surgery. The only person who can testify on his behalf is a chronic drunk. Of course, nobody believes Harry so he tries to find the killer himself. He discovers that his journalist wife worked undercover for an escort service, and apparently came too close to the truth about a group of men comprising the mysterious and secret "roundtable". Harry finds out that these knights are executives from different medical insurance companies, who have devised their own methods to increase their companies' profits. Harry has to find out who their elusive killer-for-hire is while trying to stay alive himself.