The 5th Horseman (The Women's Murder Club, 5)

The 5th Horseman (The Women's Murder Club, 5) by Patterson, James. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780316154772.

A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she is suddenly gasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. The hospitals doctors, some of the best in the nation, are completely mystified by her death. How did this happen? This is not the first such case at the hospital. Just as patients are about to be released with a clean bill of health, their conditions take a devastating turn for the worse. Accompanied by the newest member of the Womens Murder Club, Yuki Castellano, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer probes deeper into the incidents. Could these cases just be appalling coincidences? Or is a maniac playing God with peoples lives? When someone close to the Womens Murder Club begins to exhibit the same frightening symptoms, Lindsay fears no one is safe. It is a wild race against time as Lindsays investigation reveals a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, Lindsay and the Womens Murder Club hunt for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff.