After Effects

After Effects by Aird, Catherine. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312142704.

When Mrs. Galloway, who suffers from heart disease, finally passes away it comes as no shock to the staff at Berebury Hospital. Abel Grangers family had also been long prepared for his death that same morning. So why then has Mrs. Galloways son called in Detective Inspector Sloan to investigate, and why is Abel Grangers doctor so uncomfortable? The only thing that seems to link the two patients is the Cardigan Protocol, a drug trial being carried out for Gilroys, a pharmaceutical company. This, along with the unexplained disappearance of the doctor in charge of the drug trials and the surprising break-in of the Gilroys headquarters by a group of animal rights activists, leads D. I. Sloan to suspect that something much more sinister than coincidence is afoot.