Silent Treatment — Michael Palmer

With his wife, Evie, scheduled for surgery the next morning, Dr. Harry Corbett goes to the hospital for what he hopes will be a quiet evening of reconciliation...only to find his wife shockingly, inexplicably dead. The police suspect homicide. And their only suspect is Dr. Harry Corbett.

For Harry it is the beginning of a nightmare. It seems that his bright, beautiful, highly ambitious wife was leading a double life - she may have had dangerous secrets. But what secret could have been explosive enough to die for? Before Harry can begin to guess at the answer, the killer strikes again.

This time he boldly, tauntingly murders one of Harry's favorite patients in a way that makes Harry realize a terrifying truth: the sadistic killer moving undetected through this busy urban hospital can only be a doctor. And until he is unmasked, no one, least of all Dr. Harry Corbett, will be safe.